Crowdsourcing

My blog posts are getting shorter as my days are getting busier. And as I get busier, I get less inclined to think a lot. More than once in the past couple of days I’ve been faced with a decision that I have to make, but that doesn’t really matter. So I pose the question to Twitter and Facebook.

Someone else decide for me, please.

Crowdsourcing is really an interesting idea. I’m using it for mundane things right now (soup or salad) but it can be powerful. It’s not even that new of a concept. Seriously, “Ask the audience” in Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Yeah: Crowdsourcing.

I like to think that one of these days, I can post to Twitter something like: Hey, help fund my research! And then suddenly there will be funding. Some folks are getting this to work. I don’t have a big enough following yet. Maybe someday.

So, uh, I’d like to go out to Wyoming next summer to study global warming at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. Anyone want to support me. Financially, I mean?