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by sethrq 5850 days ago
This is brilliant but using 'genome' implies mutation/evolution. It seems that the content these companies/sites generate evolves over time but the Collective Intelligence Genome(rules for content management) remains more or less fixed over time.
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Indeed. Why do people insist on calling things "Genomes" or talking about the "DNA" of concepts that have no relationships with the meanings of such terms?