[p2p-research] a challenge to social media enthusiasm .. what say you, league of noble peers

[dan mcquillan]

i took it more as an example of Charles Fourier's idea that labour in
Phalanstères was to be assigned according to the predilictions of
passion & character :)

dan

2009/7/20 Kevin Carson <free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com>:
> On 7/18/09, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> from nicholas carr,
>
>> http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/06/the_sour_wikipe.php
>>
>> The sour Wikipedian
>
>> Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social
>> production. That's the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character
>> traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of Israeli research
>> psychologists gave personality tests to 69 Wikipedians and 70
>> non-Wikipedians. They discovered that, as New Scientist puts it, Wikipedians
>> are generally "grumpy," "disagreeable," and "closed to new ideas."
>
> That's certainly my impression of the most active edit warriors,
> especially the most fanatical of the notability hawks.
>
> But it really doesn't matter.  What matters is less the personal
> idiosyncracies of individual contributors to open-source culture, than
> the social value of their contributions and the use that is made of
> them.
>
> --
> Kevin Carson
> Center for a Stateless Society http://c4ss.org
> Mutualist Blog:  Free Market Anti-Capitalism
> http://mutualist.blogspot.com


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