[Ads-l] Slight Antedating of "Crowdsourcing"

[Ben Zimmer]

The June 2006 issue of Wired was likely on the newsstands by the time Howe
put up his first blog post, given that he says in the May 24 mission
statement that the Wired article was "recently published." (This may have
been edited after the fact, however.)

But it does seem Howe was making plans to use the term before the Wired
article came out, since the domain name crowdsourcing.net was registered on
Feb. 22, 2006.

https://reports.internic.net/cgi/whois?whois_nic=crowdsourcing.net&type=domain

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 8:42 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

> 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
>

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