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A great description of how few contribute to peer production systems. Some good ways to encourage participation.
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A great description of how few contribute to peer production systems. Some good ways to encourage participation.
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Another influential idea is that of web reputation (this article was published in 1999). On the Web with free email addresses and un-earned avatars we are all anonymous. But reputation systems can give us all a very real badge of credibility in Web dealings. Here are some entities that dispense Web reputation. Notice that Third voice was mentioned as a Web rep manager for its comments on any web site feature.
This "comment," about participators v. lurkers, (I prefer "watchers" or some more neutral term, to "lurkers") can be aided by recalling. That's right, not a mistake. Recall. Memory. The immune system "remembers" (recalls) the shape of a pathogen molecule and rips it to shreds so you don't get sick, right? This highlights the prefatory idea that "memory" comes in many guises and disguises, wordplay works by exploiting, exporting, sporting and so on, memory on memory. I give you, then, the FOUR SO FAR, for lack of any better way to put it. (This reminds me of Douglas Adam's "Hitchiker's Guide..." books where, when the protag finally gets to the end of the universe, finds this sentence in gigantic fiery letters:
We Are Sorry For Any Inconvenience.
But to continue... ) RECURSION, FEEDBACK, ITERATION together form what Nobelist Gerard (?) Edelman calls "re-entrant loops" which, further, double back -- if you will -- endlessly, and this mechanism(s) can be generalized to every process in the universe. YES? or NO? Jung likes the odd commonality of the number THREE; Occam like its parsimony.