2008-05-10 Time
Source : Alex Schroeder: Diary
ClayShirky is still alive! He wrote a book, too – Here Comes Everybody. And recently I found a link pointing to an article on the book’s blog, and the article was a speech transcript, and in it he has an a little numerical thought on the time wasted by people writing and editing the Wikipedia – all of that prompted by a TV journalist asking the rhetorical question: “Where do people find the time?” And Shirky tells us that we get the time by no longer wasting it all on TV:So if you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit, all of Wikipedia, the whole project—every page, every edit, every talk page, every line of code, in every language that Wikipedia exists in—that represents something like the cumulation of 100 million hours of human thought [..]
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