Speakers at Conversations in Design, credit IDS Crowdsourcing, or “tapping talent from the crowd” is a controversial subject in the design community. Some think it to be evil, a way of getting a lot of ideas for free. One critic ranted that crowdsourcers “have managed to figure out a way to get thousands of people — some skilled enough to earn a decent living — to work for them gratis. It’s an amazing sleight-of-hand.” Yet one only has to look at the entries in the
Here is the original post:
Crowdsourcing Creativity and Community at IDS2011