Jeff Howe is the guy who came up with the term “crowdsourcing,” in a story of the same name he wrote for Wired magazine. Jeff is a contributing editor at Wired, and is currently writing a book about crowdsourcing. He also blogs at http://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/. Before coming to Wired he was a senior editor at Inside.com and a writer at the Village Voice. In his fifteen years as a journalist he has traveled around the world working on stories ranging from the impending water crisis in Central Asia to the implications of gene patenting. He has written for Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, Mother Jones and numerous other publications. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Alysia
Abbott, their daughter Annabel Rose and a miniature black lab named Clementine.
