When part of our professional team that is redesigning our HASTAC website suggested HASTAC might want to look into Crowdspring as a way to design a logo, we were delighted. HASTAC is dedicated to exploring all the different ways that new technologies are changing the way we think, create, learn, interact, publish our ideas, and do business together. Crowdspring is a Web 2.0 version of online design. It took a lot of hard work, by the designers and by our HASTAC web redesign team. We loved the result, but also wondered what the business model was. And then we learned about the controversy surrounding design on spec, and especially on Crowdspring. What was done was done . . . but we realized we could do what HASTAC does best, think about the pros and cons of such a system, send our readers to other informed sources, and use HASTAC as a forum on this issue. I've given several lectures, also available on this site, on "Do-It-Yourself" v. "Do-It-For-Rupert Murdoch," on the potential for exploitation from Web 2.0. Does Crowdspring fall into the Do-It-For-Them model? Let us know what you think!
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