The ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ Loses Steam

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Article Source The Open Road
November 23, 2009, 1:51 pm

If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. That popular aphorism never seemed truer than today when reading The Wall Street Journal’s analysis of Wikipedia’s declining volunteer base. Despite countless articles extolling the virtues and seeming omnipotence of “community” over the past several years, the technology industry seems to be settling back into old habits:

Command and control…

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