Is this the future of the book?
Brian Stelter is a New York journalist who is writing (has been commissioned to write?) a book about morning TV. Here he’s commissioning his twitter followers to come up with ideas for the content:
@brianstelter Brian StelterBefore I write 1 word of this book, I want feedback about what people really want to read. Tweet me or comment here: bit.ly/ihFvYW
via twitter.com
I think this is happening more and more as the crowd usurps the individual in the Zeitgeist of web creativity. But isn’t it the original perspective of one writer that makes ‘authoring’ something more than mashing-up the more perspicacious offerings of the crown?