The New Shred

There is a new shred out there.

"User-led content 'production' is build on iterative, evolutionary development models in which often very large communities of participants make a number of usually very small, incremental changes to the established knowledge base, thereby enabling a gradual improvement in quality which - under the right conditions - can nonetheless outpace the speed of product development in the conventional industrial model.

"Such modes of content creation - involving large communities of users, who act without an all-controling, coordinating hierarchy - operate along lines which are fluid, flexible, heterarchical, and organized as required by the ongoing process of development; they are more closely aligned with the emergent organizational principles in social communities than with the predetermined, supposedly optimized rigid structures of governance in the corporate sphere. User-led content creation in this new model harnesses the collected, collective intelligence of all participants, and manages - though in some cases better than in others - to direct their contributions to where they are best able to make a positive impact."

Axel Bruns - BLOGS, WIKIPEDIA, SECOND LIFE, AND BEYOND: From Production to Produsage.

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