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The problem is in the way the Wikipedia has come to be regarded and used; how it's been elevated to such importance so quickly. And that is part of the larger pattern of the appeal of a new online collectivism that is nothing less than a resurgence of the idea that the collective is all-wise, that it is desirable to have influence concentrated in a bottleneck that can channel the collective with the most verity and force.

Art is whatever the artist wishes to call to our attention. Art is an act of attention the artist wishes to invoke in the beholder.

in an information economy, the real scarce commodity will always be human attention and that attracting that attention will be the necessary precondition of social change.

Open source collaborations hope to revive the insights once garnered from dirty catalog cards

A screencast is a digital movie in which the setting is partly or wholly a computer screen, and in which audio narration describes the on-screen action.