[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Crowdsourcing"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Mon Jul 29 00:42:40 UTC 2019


The OED's first use for the term "crowdsourcing" is a June 2006 article in Wired Magazine, by Jeff Howe.  Howe apparently introduced the term a little earlier, in a May 24, 2006 blog posting:


https://crowdsourcing.typepad.com/cs/2006/05/hi_my_name_is_j.html


Fred Shapiro

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