The Alexandrine Dilemma | the human network - 0 views
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When the folks at Britannica conducted a forensic analysis of the failure, they learned something shocking: the site had crashed because, within its first hours, it had attracted nearly fifty million visitors.
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Wikipedia was the modern birth of “crowdsourcing”, the idea that vast numbers of anonymous individuals can labor together (at a distance) on a common project.
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There’s a new logic operating: the more something is shared, the more valuable it becomes.
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