Here Went Everybody

Was the era of "organizing without organizations" a historical blip?

Active editors on English Wikipedia over time (via “The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System”, Halfaker et al, 2013)

The optimism of Web 2.0 rested in large part on its pure excitement about the web as a fundamentally open-ended technology. In Free Culture, permissive intellectual property and remixing would unleash a wave of as-yet unimagine…