You are participating in the biggest, baddest realtime wiki on earth. Here now!
Consider the concentric circles of partipation:
{wiki idea}wikipedia idea}wikipedia community}wikipedia inspiration} new forms of wiki-based communities such as wikimentary and wikihow}wikimania event}wikifolk plus lots of bloggers and others including mass circulation web, tv, print as indexed Google news}thousands of readers of blogs, plus millions of viewers of mainstream media, plus hundreds of thousands newly turned onto all of the above…and then you have folks like Ethan Zuckerman focused on bringing the revolution to the entire world population…
All this equals a massively extended global network of participation in the production of information, insight, perspective, and inspiration…
now add the more or less realtime summarization and indexing of this, by way of individuals like librarians Merideth and MediaLibrarian, and machines like Technorati with search/wikimania, and you have perhaps the world’s largest peer production system..in realtime, today..Oh yea, and you have to appreciate the delicious (pun intended) recursive irony in wiki pioneer Ross Mayfield reporting that as CNN interviewed and trashed Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia traffic blew by CNN.com’s. As documented by Alexa!
John Palfrey and I were talking last night about Wikimania, and how it has vastly exceeded expectations in terms of participation, and how by attracting a melange of people with access to their own media–bloggers, etc..is reaching out to the world in an amazing way…
I said, “John, Wikimania has become its own vast, short-term explosively active multi-million participant Wiki!”
