Talk:Lentis/Mass Collaboration

I rolled back edits by Panic2k4. I did so because this chapter is a class assignment and the authors need to retain control of its content until December 8. I invite Panic and anyone else to work on the chapter after then. Thank you! Norton (discuss • contribs) 17:47, 29 November 2011 (UTC)


 * I will not press for the changes since I have not contributed much nor intended in doing so soon, I intentionally selected not to review my edits, since I understood that it was a class project (that is why that for most edits I have confined myself to the TODO boxes), but remember that there is no control to be had on Wikibooks (editorial control), you can establish a set of conventions for editors that may increase it a little by setting parameters but as a trade off will require you to be more clear on the scope and direction of the work. I however am disappointed that there is a section covering Skype and not Instant Messaging. It will be interesting to see what will be covered there since I cannot foresee the connection that Skype in particular has with Mass Collaboration.
 * I will take a look on the reversal and move anything I find relevant to the talk for later coverage. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 20:55, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Critique
"A truly “massive” collaboration began with Gutenberg, who allowed communication to spread farther than earshot." This notion has no grounds, publication (diffusion of ideas) is not collaboration, to fallow this logic then all cultural evolutions are collaborative and would have started before the printing press. Note also that in China's mass printing predates Gutenberg. Collaboration in that view (diffusion of ideas), would have been especially true when dealing with academic works. But was by no means massive. Massive collaboration originated with the open source movement and the creation of revision systems (logging capability), predating the Internet. The Internet brought the possibility of immediate communications allied with some sort of logging capability, the e-mail was in fact the greatest revolution in massive collaboration even more with the use of mailing lists. This of course already existed in the form of the Usenet. Immediate communication enable the creation of the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) that evolved into Instant Messaging and Real time video conferencing. Wikipedia did clearly establish mass collaboration to the general public but the wiki movement already existed. The shift from passive content consumers to producers evolved from all this, the creation of distributed computing, peer to peer are closely connected with the evolution of the network. SUN's motto "The network is the computer" has been always evolving, today "the server is the network" would best describe the arrival of the cloud meme. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 22:38, 29 November 2011 (UTC)