John Lee wrote:
The article in question can be found at: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1302435,00.html
Charles Matthews wrote:
A positive article 'Wiki's wacky but it works' in today's London Observer, Business section, by John Naughton who typically writes on Internet topics. It takes the line that WP is good at 'self-healing', and is generally better (more comprehensive) than Britannica Online.
I particularly liked the comments in the closing paragraph. These clearly suggest that this revolution is much bigger than Wikipedia.
We have become so imbued by the conventional wisdom of managerial capitalism that we think the only way to do things is via hierarchical, top-down, tightly controlled organisations that are highly tuned and incredibly fragile. Wikipedia is none of these things, yet it works brilliantly. There's a lesson there for control freaks.
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