Crowdsourcing Added to the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary

According to Suzanne Obszanski’s article, Why You Should Know Jeff Howe, crowdsourcing has made it into the dictionary:

Although crowdsourcing is in its inception, the term is catching on rapidly. Recently, crowdsourcing was added in an update of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate ® Dictionary, America’s best-selling dictionary in 2011. This would not have happened if it was not for Jeff Howe’s major contribution to the industry. Thanks to him, crowdsourcing is proving itself as a legitimate and mainstream part of the business world. (Obszanski, 2011, para. 5)

Congrats on the mainstreaming of this new form of exploitation!