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Jaron has an apparent dislike for the artificial, touching on how true written pieces take time to create which competition does not allow for. He also dislikes AI and how people are willing to fake it to make it seem closer to the actual thing.

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General overview of how Wikipedia works and why the site hasn't turned into graffiti yet

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Mark Harmel was a stock photographer who was trying to sell four pictures for $600 > buyer went to iStockPhoto and got photos for $1 each > product Mark offered was no longer Scarce > profitable business comes out of contributing users (ebay & myspace) > individuals suddenly can be paid for their interests but at much lower costs than professional R&D

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Michael Hirschorn, executive producer of show Web Junk20 which is a show that takes Internet videos and regurgitates them > Their business had to license videos to use for the show which was getting increasingly expensive > The parent company bought iFilm for 49 million which gave endless supply of videos > 57% of 12-17 year old's online are creating content of some sort and posting it

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Ed Malcarek is a stand alone programmer that does business fixing problems for companies > he is one of 90k "solvers" > 10k to 100k per 'solution' > more than of problems are solved > Seeing this model, Larry Huston decided to "cross-pollinate" different divisions within the workplace > increased innovations from outside the walls from 15% to 50% and productivity six years later is 60% up

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Advantages of Wikipedia: 1.) Rich citations, makes for a great entry point in study. 2.) Responds instantly to new developments. 3.) The history button on articles showing revisions > Marshall McLuhan offers ideas of shifting human communication >  “If the printing press empowered the individual, the digital world empowers collaboration.”

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Amazon's Mechanical Turk is a system for HIT (human intelligence tasks) of little effort to be performed for little pay > there are people in this system using bots to try to make a quick buck > works better for more specialized rolls (example about software development crowdsourcing 'iConclude')

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McLuhan suggests that "technology strongly affects not only the content of culture, but the mind that creates and consumes that culture." - Bustillos > Modern critics became engulfed by the idea that "English literature had ended in the 17th century" > Abandonment of POV to convey their message is an innovation in the internet age > the ideas presented are wreaking "havoc on conventional notions of 'authority,' 'authorship,' and even 'knowledge.'"

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While Lanier's piece has been widely criticized for being emotional and romanticizing the idea of the individual, the piece and arguments within are still kicking > The way we think about authority is more subtle than one might claim > The line between reader and writer is blurring

"Seriously, reading [Lanier's] stuff is like watching a guy lose his shirt at the roulette wheel and still he keeps on grimly putting everything on the same number."

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There is a difference between understanding something and deciding something, with Wikipedia we consume the information and then the decision to take it as fact (which is dangerous according to Lanier) > Wikipedia's author is 'distributed' > Experts, authorities, authors should be questioned, but until now have not had a method for others to question them > The power to question these individuals and teachings brings on the 'death of the expert'

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"These authors wanted not to make and sell their own “point of view,” but to take you on a head trip instead." - Bustillos on the works of McLuhan/Innis and Leavis or Lochhead?

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“If the printing press empowered the individual, the digital world empowers collaboration.” - McLuhan

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"we were taught to believe that these should be questioned, but until now have not often been given a way to do so" - Bustillos

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As Jeff Howe points out, the photographer is undercut by stock photos from amateurs able to produce matching quality with less.

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"In other words, clever individuals, the heroes of the marketplace, ask the questions which are answered by collective behavior. They put the jellybeans in the jar." -Lanier

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Jaron has an apparent dislike for the artificial, touching on how true written pieces take time to create which competition does not allow for. He also dislikes AI and how people are willing to fake it to make it seem closer to the actual thing.

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"The aggregator is richer than the aggregated." -Lanier

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Jaron says how if there were a website devoted to bringing down filmmaking, he would fit right in on the page. However, taken out of context on Wikipedia then creates a certain confusion.

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Hyper-Lefties Hyper-Libertarians "manic motivation of youth" "competent specialist graduate student types" goblins, anonymous, faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew, fetish site for foolish collectivism,

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"At the very least it's a success at revealing what the online people with the most determination and time on their hands are thinking, and that's actually interesting information." - Jaron Lanier

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"In all these cases, it seems to me that empirical evidence has yielded mixed results. Sometimes loosely structured collective activities yield continuous improvements and sometimes they don't. Often we don't live long enough to find out" - Lanier

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"that is part of the larger pattern of the appeal of a new online collectivism that is nothing less than a resurgence of the idea that the collective is all-wise, that it is desirable to have influence concentrated in a bottleneck that can channel the collective with the most verity and force." - Lanier