There is a hot new concept called “crowd sourcing” that’s actually a pretty old idea. Originally, it was said that if you had an infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters, they’d eventually write all of Shakespeare’s sonnets.

This new “crowd sourcing” concept suggests that instead of having a few professionals doing something (writing stories, answering questions, or taking pictures), you’d use lots of amateurs doing whatever you want. In theory the latter will produce as many good things as their professional counterparts but at almost no cost.