Crowdsourcing: Murderer Or Disruptive Tech?
Wired’s Jeff Howe, who coined the term “Crowdsourcing”, wants to know that his word isn’t killing your industry.
It’s killing all industries.
Just kidding, “changing.” That’s the word, though Howe said at the Circus that he fears for his own future in journalism.
Photography, written media, all visible “content”-based industries may be the most visible examples of how crowdsourcing is changing business. But there are others.
As an example, Howe cites Threadless, the crowdsourced T-shirt company which had $30 million in revenue in 2007.
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