2009/8/26 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com
There is a perennial media narrative that unmediated
content
production cannot possibly work, as it goes against everything media
people understand. They have run pretty much THE SAME story about
Wikipedia every year since it was created.
This narrative is so strong that no mere facts or objective reality
can kill it. I expect to see it next year and the year after too, and
the year after that.
That perennial media narrative is a "meme" you're fighting.
You need to come up and use a countermeme that will chase it down and kill
it- the meme has to spread faster than that idea, so that every time
somebody says that, some bright spark kills them dead with the mildly
amusing/apropro reply and do your work for you.
One counter meme I've seen (that you're probably all familiar with) is:
"That's the THEORY, that unmediated content CANNOT work, but the wikipedia
works only in PRACTICE, but not in theory!!!"
There's probably other, better memes you can use.
- d.
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-Ian Woollard
"All the world's a stage... but you'll grow out of it eventually."