Whaddaya know, but the Crocs designers seem to be fresh out of ideas to extend the shelf life of their hideous footwear, which has been rapidly fading from the national fad-consciousness since early 2008. They want your help. Social networking may be the last refuge of the 21st Century scoundrel. Case in point: Crocsideas.com ! Pulling the laziest designer trick of lazy designers everywhere, Crocs wants you to help them make their shoes into something half-decent. In the nauseous language of corporate prosumer sites everywhere, you can Join The Community, Post An Idea, and View & Vote (on the Community’s Ideas). You can Share, Listen, and Innovate. Isn’t that sweet? Crocs wants you to tell it exactly what you think of it! And maybe to suggest what it might do that would be worth buying. If crowd-sourcing its product development seems like scraping the bottom of the barrel, that’s because it is. It …
