Wikipedia [...] is the product not of collectivism but of unending argumentation.

[B]ecause the minimum costs of being an organization in the first place are relatively high, certain activities may have some value but not enough to make them worth pursuing in any organized way. New social tools are altering this equation by lowering the costs of coordinating group action.

Because Wikipedia is a process, not a product, it replaces guarantees offered by institutions with probabilities supported by process.

Mass amateurization of publishing makes mass amateurization of filtering a forced move.

The basic capabilities of tools like Flickr reverse the old order of group activity, transforming 'gather, then share' into 'share, then gather'.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Tools that provide simple ways of creating groups lead to new groups, [...] and not just more groups but more kinds of groups.

The more people are involved in a given task, the more potential agreements need to be negotiated to do anything, and the greater the transaction costs.

[C]ollaborative production is simple: no one person can take credit for what gets created, and the project could not come into being without the participation of many.