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Slate: Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy
In this article, Chris Wilson argues that collaborative sites like Digg and WIkipedia aren't as democratic as one might think because they rely on elite groups of users for much of the decision-making.
Web2.0  wikipedia  production  bubbler 
february 2008 by McChris
NYTimes: At Wikipedia, Illustrators May Be Paid
I don't know, $40 for an illustration sounds pretty low-ball to me. This seems to confirm the idea that open production models devalue contributions.
production  wikipedia  hmm 
december 2007 by McChris
Tuned In Strike Watch: This Week at 30 Rock
Tina Fey is seen protesting outside 30 Rock, but she will be on set this week shooting "30 Rock." It will be interesting to see if they can write the strike into the show.
TV  labor  production  TVontheWeb 
november 2007 by McChris
Deadline Hollywood Daily: Showrunner Explains Why He’s On Strike
Shawn Ryan, creator of The Shield and The Unit, discusses his decision to dis-honor his production contracts during the TV writers' strike. The self-righteous rhetoric gets to be cloying, but the comments provide an interesting view into the opinions of t
TV  labor  production  TVontheWeb 
november 2007 by McChris
CIO.com: Wikipedia's Awkward Adolescence
OMG, the anarchists have become bureaucrats!
wikipedia  hierarchy  production 
september 2007 by McChris
Rough Type: The island of misfit Wikipedia articles
Nick Carr laments the success of deletionists at trimming Wikipedia of marginal topics.
production  wikipedia 
september 2007 by McChris
Trebor Scholz: A History of the Social Web
"This is a cross-cultural history of social life on the Internet. It captures technical, cultural, and political events that influenced the evolution of computer-assisted person-to-person communication via the net."
academic  history  Web2.0  production  to:read 
september 2007 by McChris
NIck Carr: Rise of the wikicrats
"As Wikipedia has grown, it has developed a bureaucracy that is remarkable not only for the intricacies of its hierarchy but for the breadth and complexity of its rules."
wiki  wikipedia  production  hierarchy 
september 2007 by McChris
Rough Type: Stabbing Polonius
Nick Carr takes aim at the idea that Wikipedia – or any encyclopedia – can be representative of the sum of human knowledge.
epistemology  production  wikipedia 
april 2007 by McChris
The Economic Motivation of Open Source Software: Stakeholder Perspectives
economics  opensource  production 
april 2007 by McChris
Citizendium: building a better Wikipedia
Ars Technica explains the mode of production on Larry Sanger's rival to Wikipedia.
wiki  wikipedia  production  Web2.0 
february 2007 by McChris
Time: Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free
Justin Fox examines the relationship between peer producers and the sites that profit from them.
Web2.0  opensource  production  labor 
february 2007 by McChris
CTheory.net: The Political Economy of Peer Production
Web2.0  p2p  production  labor  academic  politicaleconomy 
january 2007 by McChris
Crooked Timber: The Wealth of Networks seminar
I wish I had seen this a few months ago. Actually, I probably saw it in May, and hadn't read the book yet.
economics  production  freeculture  CreativeCommons  wikipedia 
january 2007 by McChris
Social Facts, Expertise, Citizendium, and Carr
Clay Shirky elaborates on how he thinks the notion of "social facts" applies to peer-produced projects like Wikipedia and Larry Sanger's emphasis on expertise will grind Citizendium to a halt.
wikipedia  production  freeculture 
november 2006 by McChris
Infothought: Wikipedia, and the difficulties of criticizing digital-sharecropping
Seth Finkelstein contrasts the opportunities for exploiting unpaid labor in Web 2.0 projects and the communalist discourses that surround Wikipedia.
wikipedia  Web2.0  production 
november 2006 by McChris
The Chronicle: Can Wikipedia Ever Make the Grade?
Chonicle of Higher Education on Wikipedia's production methods and its use in the academy. Largely a rehash of Roy Rosenweig's "Can History be Open Source."
wikipedia  education  Web2.0  academic  production 
october 2006 by McChris
Crowdsourcing -- the neue sweatshop labor
I've been thinking along these lines for a while.
labor  Web2.0  production 
october 2006 by McChris
Andrew Lih: Wikipedia vs. Citizendium
Andrew Lih expresses skepticism about Citizendium.
wikipedia  production 
september 2006 by McChris
Many-to-Many: Larry Sanger on me on Citizendium.
Larry Sanger responds to Clay Shirky's criticism of his Citizendium fork of Wikipedia.
wikipedia  wiki  production 
september 2006 by McChris
Larry Sanger, Citizendium, and the Problem of Expertise (Clay Shirky)
Clay Shirky manages to allude to Durkheim in his thoughtful critique of Larry Sanger's Citizendium fork.
wikipedia  academic  production 
september 2006 by McChris
WSJ.com: Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?
I think this conversation between Jimmy Wales and Britannica editor-in-chief Dale Hoiberg must have taken place via email.
wikipedia  interview  production 
september 2006 by McChris
Raw Thought: Who Writes Wikipedia?
Aaron Schwartz crunched the numbers and it seems that a core group of 500 editors do most of the grunt work on Wikipedia, while most new content comes from casual users.
wikipedia  production  statistics  politics  power 
september 2006 by McChris
Steven Levy: Poking a Stick Into The 'Hive Mind'
Levy provides a lightweight overview and critique of Jaron Lanier's argument that collaborative filtering and peer production create "Digital Maoism."
production  wikipedia 
august 2006 by McChris
FT.com: A closed mind about an open world
James Boyle discusses how open modes of production can seem counter-intutive to many people, yet produce a quality product.
opensource  production  CreativeCommons  economics  psychology  wikipedia 
august 2006 by McChris
Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past
A historian looks at wikipedia and its mode of production.
academic  wikipedia  authorship  history  production 
august 2006 by McChris
The Atlantic Monthly: The Hive
Another venerable magazine runs a feature on Wikipedia. This one is good at describing the multiple forces that came together to form the project, rather than a single threaded narrative about Jimbo Wales.
wikipedia  production  opensource  history 
august 2006 by McChris
The New Yorker Covers Wikipedia
Here's a blog post that compares the fact-checking processes between mass-circulation magazines and Wikipedia. In my experience, fact-checking at trade magazines is not as stringent, and I understand that newspapers are similarly loose.
wikipedia  production  magazine  thereal 
july 2006 by McChris
Annals of Information: Know it All
The New Yorker has a long feature about Wikipedia and its user communities. It even mentions the Boston Molasses Disaster.
wikipedia  history  opensource  production 
july 2006 by McChris
zefrank on ugly MySpace profiles
This vlog post situates ugly MySpace profiles within the history of print design and adds a little Web 2.0 sassy sauce.
myspace  design  typography  production  authorship  history  video 
july 2006 by McChris
Dirk Riehle: How and Why Wikipedia Works
Via Slashdot, interviews with prominent Wikipedia editors.
wikipedia  production  academic  interview 
july 2006 by McChris
Collectivate.net - 'journalisms' - Collective Action
This is an interesting rant about commons-based peer production, Wikipedia, del.icio.us, and all that jazz.
production  del.icio.us  wikipedia  surveillance  politicaleconomy  Web2.0 
july 2006 by McChris
The Social Forces at Work Behind "Web 2.0"
Video of Henry Jenkins talking about kids making media online. This isn't really about Web 2.0 — in the sense of "Architectures of Participation" — as much as it is about "user-generated content" or "peer production."
academic  production  youth  Web2.0 
june 2006 by McChris
Web Semantics Watch IV: Crowdsourcing
Bruce Sterling discusses America's fastest growing buzzword, "Crowdsourcing."
buzzword  meme  production 
june 2006 by McChris
Technology Review: Taking Media in Our Own Hands
academic  copyright  citizensmedia  production  video  pxl-2000 
may 2006 by McChris
Guardian Unlimited Technology | A thirst for knowledge
Here's the Guardian story about Wikitruth.info and Wikipedia burnout more generally.
wikipedia  Web2.0  production 
april 2006 by McChris
Web 2.0 and the web serf
A Tripod co-founder makes some insightful comments about the business models of Web 2.0 companies that rely on user-generated content, saying "The community, not the data, provides the lock-in."
Web2.0  blog  commodification  production  business 
april 2006 by McChris
The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Linux for the People
''If knowledge doesn't have owners, intellectual property is a trick of neoliberalism,'' Hugo Chavez says.
opensource  globalization  intellectualproperty  socialjustice  production 
april 2006 by McChris
Open-source business | Open, but not as usual
ECONOMIST story on how for-profit businesses are adopting open-source modes of production.
opensource  production  business  wikipedia 
march 2006 by McChris
Anonymous source is not the same as open source
NYTimes article skeptical of the authorship practices at Wikipedia. It argues that because Wikipedia contributors are often anonymous, the project lacks credibility.
wikipedia  Web2.0  wiki  authorship  production 
march 2006 by McChris
The Collective Conscious - New York Times
NYTimes piece on art collectives, suggesting that the mode of production threatens the norms of the art market.
art  commodification  production 
march 2006 by McChris

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