on 11/15/08 8:14 PM, David Gerard at dgerard(a)gmail.com wrote:
2008/11/16 Marc Riddell
<michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net>et>:
on 11/15/08 6:57 PM, David Gerard at
dgerard(a)gmail.com wrote:
> A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy (Clay
Shirky):
>
http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
> Note that Wikipedia is given as an example of a group that had evaded
> this. Oh well.
David, that speech was given five years ago. I am
trying to present to
today.
That's what I mean: it didn't evade this. I've seen the dynamics
described in that paper myself over and over on the net in the past
twenty years.
David, are you content with the overall picture the (English) Wikipedia is
presenting today? Do you believe it has enough stability, structure and
strong leadership to sustain it?
Marc