Doomed: why Wikipedia will fail

arstechnica.com - 2/13/2009

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Law professor Eric Goldman loves Wikipedia, but he's also convinced that the site contains the "seeds of its own destruction." In other words, not to put too fine a point upon it, Wikipedia will fail. Goldman made his provocative point at the Silicon Flatirons conference this ...

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— jameswharris.wordpress.com — I’ve been discussing with Bob Sabella, author of Who Shaped Science Fiction? , about writing a science... fiction reference book together. We wondered if would be fun to write the book I imagine in Science Fiction: 1951 . Then I got to ... (more) Wikipedia and Science Fiction Reference Books

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Velcro City Tourist Board — ... on the works of others, and there are plenty of business models that can be put in place easily that don't require "protection" at all. It may be more difficult for someone who makes their living helping enforce those protections to see it, but we're seeing it every day." Tagged with: copyright • creativity • innovation • content • IP • business • model • Doomed: why Wikipedia will fail "Now, the editors themselves discourage the contributions ...

Why Wikipedia is (apparently) doomed to fail
Futurismic — ... As a poster-child of the Web2.0 success story, Wikipedia has grown from a small but thriving community of volunteers into one of the most well-used online resources there is. But that community-driven character could be Wikipedia’s doom, according to professor of law Eric Goldman - and he thinks the rot has long since set in. ...