There are silly feuds and then there’s the crowdSpring vs. Threadless vs. “Spec Work is Evil.”  At South by SouthWest (SXSW if you’re kewl) panel “Is Spec Work Evil?” a three-way fight occurred.  First, you have all the designers who hate doing speculative work (i.e., you’re basically handing in a project and hoping the client accepts it and pays you) yelling at the designers who managed to get paid by doing spec work.  Second, while it isn’t featured as part of the official video, crowdSpring representatives accused Threadless of being a “work on spec” site and Threadless took great offense to both that and crowdSpring comparing themselves to Threadless.  And then the Internet, especially Twitter, start a great to-do about nothing.

Good lord, what a silly waste of time.  By the numbers: (more…)