Right there are the beginning of Esther Dyson’s ten-year-old book, Release 2.1, she alerts us to the Web 2.0 challenge we’re we’re now beginning to understand:
The challenge for us all is to build a critical mass of healthy communities on the Net and to design good basic rules for its public spaces so that larger [...]

Posted January 28, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: challenge, communities, community, esther dyson, release 2.0, release 2.1, web 2.0, web20. Be the first one.

Arguments about Wikipedia’s value and authority will rage for quite a while, but it’s interesting to see where the lines are being drawn.
On the one had we’ve got a 12 year-old pointing out errors in Encyclopaedia Britannica (via Many2Many) and now on the other side we’ve got John Seigenthaler, a former editorial page editor at [...]

Posted December 5, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: blog, bloggers, blogs, communities, community, editor, editorial, editorial control, fear, findability, forbes, google economy, John Seigenthaler, libel, moderation, opinion, Seigenthaler, slander, social, social software, usa today, wiki, wikipedia. 7 Comments.

I’m here at NEASIS&T’s “Social Software, Libraries, and the Communities that (could) Sustain Them” event, presented by Steven Cohen.
He’s suggesting we read James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds.
Surowiecki first developed his ideas for Wisdom of Crowds in his “Financial Page” column of The New Yorker. Many critics found his premise to be an interesting twist [...]

Posted November 18, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: communities, community, consensus, crowds, libraries, library, neasis&t, social software, social software, libraries, and the communities that (c, steven cohen, web 2.0, wisdom. 2 Comments.