A Guide To Fansourcing Part 2: Why Fansource?

A quick note – since last week's "Definition" column I found the term Fansourcing is also being used when media producers outsource things to their fans.  So I'm going to slightly tweak the way I'm using it, and refer to Fansourcing as "outsourcing things to fans" and the subset I discuss is when fans outsource to fans.

Hey, it's internet terminology, it's evolving almost as fast as the technology.

So last time I discussed what Fansourcing was, and I just clarified it for the upcoming discussion.

So now, why outsource fan to fan?

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