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Over at Between Hope and Fear is a fascinating article connecting Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar (a treatise on the revolutionary Open Source software development model) and recent events, including the rise of the bloggers as a collective fact-checking news self-organization, and the rise of Wikipedia as the largest encyclopedia in the world. These new self-organizations (Open Source, the bloggers, Wikipedia) are completely routing older, traditional hierarchical organizations (like Microsoft, CBS, and Brittannica) whenever the two sides come into direct conflict. Now, most interestingly, Cicero questions how this model can be applied to the current War on Terror. Again, we see self-organizing networks of individual actors (al Qaeda, Chechnyan resistance) waging assymetrical warfare against hierarchies (nation-states). What does this mean? Read the article, and let me know what you think.

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On September 21st, 2004, this was the truth (Tags: al-Qaeda, CBS, Delphi, Eric Raymond, Microsoft, self-organizing networks, software development model) | | Subscribe to comments | Both comments and pings are currently closed