[nicopappl]

The essay you linked doesn't at all convey that Wikipedia is cancer, in fact it does somewhat the opposite. A shame the title is so inflammatory and doesn't at all reflect the content.

It's in fact a seriously amazing essay, thank you for sharing it here. The 2006 Jaron Lanier essay, in addition with the 13 responses (including from Cory Doctorow and Jimmy Wales) is a golden nugget of internet history, and a snapshot of what people believed would be the future of the internet (oh boy, with 15 years of insight, there is quite a lot to say)

[leephillips]

Thanks, and I’m glad that you got some value from the essay and the responses to it. It expresses an attitude and set of opinions that I largely share and that have fallen into obscurity in the midst of a widespread apotheosis of the hive mind. I didn’t mean to misrepresent it; my comment is my own conclusion, guided by this essay, by other analyses, and by observing the, yes, cancerous affect that Wikipedia has on the web.