on 11/15/08 8:14 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
2008/11/16 Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net:
on 11/15/08 6:57 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@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