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On Crowdsourcing and History

Recently, I’m noticing a lot of chatter about “crowdsourcing history.” The discussion about leveraging crowds in history-making has been going for quite some time, but only now seems to be reaching a point of acceptance. In case you’ve been living under a very Amish rock, here’s how Wikipedia – the king of the crowds – defines the term.
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