Sorry for the lack of posts recently, I guess I’m not sure where to go with hiphipUK as traffic is rather stagnant and even posts like the Threadless one fail to generate much by way of discussion. I’ve also been planning on expanding out the topics I post from just the tshirt industry to my other interest areas. One of those is Mass Customisation a which was the focus of my original Threadless dissertation.
There is an excellent post on madeforone.com which summarises up the whole concept (!warning long alert!), charts its history, and attempts to tie together all the associated terms like peer production, consumer innovation, open innovation, lead users. Basically, its an excellent introduction to the whole area.