 Initially, the first domains to really adopt crowdsourcing were in the technology fields, especially advertising and marketing. It then began to spread into academic research and corporate science. It is increasingly popular on Capitol Hill and I'm sort of gratified and humbled and also be wildered to hear terms like crowdsourcing and crowdfunding, which were just silly made-up words bandied about by my editor and I circa 2006, now passing the lips of senators and representatives. The policies that have come up is there is a move, a bipartisan move, to essentially deregulate some of the rules that the SEC has around small business fundraising. In other words, let small businesses crowdfund. Let them take very small amounts of investment in exchange for very small amounts of equity. Right now this runs into a raft of regulations that I won't pretend to understand, but I think it's smart legislation and to believe the odds makers it has a really good chance of succeeding. It's one of the few proposals enjoying bipartisan support right now. Trying to get the crowd involved in actually creating policy legislation has been a tougher nut to crack. I think that it has great promise on the local level when you can get say a precinct involved or just a neighborhood involved in the drafting of a zoning change or something that is a pocketbook issue for a small number of people who have great incentive to all contribute to a wiki where they would all come up with a piece of legislation. It has been tougher to pull off on a larger scale although it's worth noting that an alternative to SOPA has now been drafted up by the crowd. I haven't read it. I'm not going to pretend if I know if it's good or bad, but it has by all reports been a success. A lot of the same people who were vehemently against SOPA have said look we understand that piracy is a problem for copyright holders and that the labels and the studios aren't completely off base. These are industries we want to protect. SOPA protesters aren't anti-capitalist. They're not against the culture industry and so they've come together to draft an alternative and you know we'll see where that goes.