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Top tip to build a social website from David Weinberger

06/18/2007 by simoncollister 3 Comments

Top advice on creating a bottom-up social website in the model of Wikipedia – courtesy of David Weinberger’s new book Everything is Miscellaneous:

You need to create: "… a pragmatic utopian community that begins with a minimum of structure, out of which emerge social structures as needed."

Similarly,what is the one important lesson Wikipedia teaches us? "That wikipedia is possible."

Technorati tags: Wikipedia; David+Weinberger; Everything+is+Miscellaneous; social+knowledge

Filed Under: David Weinberger, Research, social media, social networking, Technology, Web 2.0

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  1. Michael says

    05/15/2008 at 16:16

    This does not tell me anything…consider changing your title or actually including some useful information in this post.

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  2. Michael says

    05/15/2008 at 16:16

    This does not tell me anything…consider changing your title or actually including some useful information in this post.

    Reply
  3. celebrity picture says

    07/13/2009 at 03:16

    I dont know what to make out from this post.

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