How Crowdsourcing Enables Personal Identity

The other day in class, we had a guest speaker by the name of Daren Brabham. He opened my eyes on what crowd sourcing is, and how people may use/misuse it. From what I got, crowd sourcing is a company or corporation presenting the general/knowledgeable public with a dilemma for some kind of compensation. This compensation can be varied from merchandise to a certain amount of money. So with this kind of incentive, the public adapts the theory of "Nobody knows nothing everybody knows something" and utilizes to its fullest. A very prime example we read about was the Threadless designer t-shirt company. This company depends on the innovation of the general public and their designs, which then in turn, are voted upon by the very same public to determine which design will be the next hot seller. The winner of this contest is then rewarded with a cash reward, as well as a giftcard for a certain amount of merchandise. With passionate designers and the casual buyers coming togehter to express their own style and personality, this represents my blog topic to its very core. What I mean by that is the people who buy the products display their particular style of clothing, and those who producve the products, display their ingenuity and innovation. So through crowdsourcing we can not only present our talents and brillance, we can be rewarded for doing so. So through the the internet media and crowdsourcing, we have opened yet another gateway for the world to catch a glimpse of just who we as people really are.