Wikipedia [..] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.
Clay Shirky
Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.
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Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [..] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.
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Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.
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Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.
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Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.
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[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.
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Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.
The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.
The low cost of aggregating information also allowed the formalization of sharing [..].
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For the last hundred years the big organizational question has been whether any given task was best taken on by the state, directing the effort in a planned way, or by businesses competing in a market.
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