Taking ‘Crowdsourcing’ to its logical conclusion

Crowdsourcing cover designs

Images from the Flickr Coversourcing pool

Random House have come up with a very good wheeze to promote the upcoming book ‘Crowdsourcing’. Crowdsourcing, for the unitiated is:

“the act of taking a job traditionally performed by a designated agent (usually an employee) and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people in the form of an open call.”

taken from Jeff Howe’s Crowdsourcing blog

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