I ripped a page right out of Rob Quigley’s playbook with a crowdsourcing experiment during the Houston Social Media Breakfast on Friday morning.

Rob, who is the social media editor at the Austin American-Statesman, executed a terrific “Day in the Sun” storystream for the paper two weeks ago using Posterous, a blogging platform that allows multiple contributors to post photos/text/videos to a single stream using a single e-mail address.

In total, readers submitted 70 photos, all of which were syndicated out to a highly-trafficked Statesman.com photo gallery and some of which also wound up in the print edition.

It was a creative and thoughtful project–one of many that Rob is hatching for the Statesman these days–and so I decided to copy it!

The project: To create a storystream–primarily with photos–of the Houston Social Media Breakfast on Friday, September 11.

The platform: An SMB Houston Posterous blog, which I created in about two minutes.

The plan: Ask breakfast attendees to send in photos they captured during the breakfast to p