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Wiki as a Commons
Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
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The first thing I’ve come to learn is that pursuing something as open-ended as internet reform requires intentional scoping and goal-setting. The New Internet was never a single thing. It was fractured and messily connected from the jump. This messiness was used as feedstock to accelerate its consolidation under what became the crypto industry. It ... See more
By making it easier for groups to self-assemble and for individuals to contribute to group effort without requiring formal management (and its attendant overhead), these tools have radically altered the old limits on the size, sophistication, and scope of unsupervised effort (the limits that created the institutional dilemma in the first place). Th
... See moreClay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody
She highlights, for instance, the importance of boundary-making, of clear and malleable rules, and of mechanisms for dispute resolution and sanctioning rule-breakers.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
