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Amateurs and professionals
October 02, 2005
I've heard all sorts of smart people heap praise on Wikipedia as a exemplar of the new model of participative, or communal, or democratic . I personally go to Wikipedia fairly regularly to get a quick gloss on some ..
The same goes for blogs.
The great danger here is that the amateur crowds out the professional. The easy and free availability of amateur content undermines the economics of the professional. The layoffs of reporters at good newspapers, greeted by some bloggers with a creepy kind of joy,
The professional world has its faults. And ultimately it can turn into little more than a self-sustaining bureaucracy. Look at the American House of Representatives, for instance. It was designed as a place for amateurs, but it has turned into the worst kind of professional organization - a dysfunctional conclave that has encoded its
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