Media has already swiftly shifted from a world of content created by elite to one of mass participation. This is rapidly going further to where even traditional journalism and news is becoming crowdsourced, from on-the-spot reporting through filtering, preliminary writing, fact-checking, headline selection and layout, usually overseen by professionals

—From Ross Dawson’s “Why Crowdsourcing is the future of EVERYTHING” article. 

I think crowdsourcing is a huge deal and agree with Ross that it has the potential to radically alter many industries. I’ll be following today’s Future of Crowdsourcing Summit (via the #FOC10 Twitter hashtag) with great interest. 

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