Newsweek: Is Crowdsourcing on the Decline?

Check out this article from the August 26 issue of Newsweek.  Among the ideas posited:

• Wikipedia editorship is flat.
• Doing work for free by building Wikipedia entries, etc., is not as novel as it used to be.
• Social media is alive and well in self-oriented sites such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter.
• Blogging is on the decline among post-high school young adults.
• Only one in four Web users leaves a comment on a blog.
• "Rewarding" blog commenters has stimulated an increase in comments on sites like the Huffington Post. "Benefits" include special badges and the ability to edit or delete others' comments.  (Oh my word -- we could have a whole John Dewey discussion about that point alone.

Take a look ...

Crowd Sourcing Loses Steam - Newsweek via kwout