Crowdsourcing

In June 2006, Jeff Howe from Wired Magazine coined the term crowdsourcing. Crowdsourcing is when an organization takes a role traditionally performed within a company and outsources it to an open group of people via the Internet. It is the growth of taking structure of work in Open Source software projects and applying it to other domains of human collaboration.

There are several interesting sites dealing with Crowdsourcing, including:

1. Assignment Zero: NewAssignment.net's first experiment. Collaborating with Wired Magazine, they are organizing combination of professional and amateur (or crowd-sourced) journalists to report on crowdsourcing. You can check out the various domains they are looking at here.


2. Jeff Howe's Blog: Jeff Howe and Wired are tracking the rise of crowdsourcing.


3. Or check out James Surowiecki's book, The Wisdom of Crowds.