{"id":82,"date":"2008-11-29T23:34:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T20:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-11-29T23:36:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T20:36:18","slug":"sergey-brin-and-the-miraculous-power-of-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Sergey Brin and the miraculous power of scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>surfing around I came to this nice video, back a few years Sergey Brin admits he did not believe Wikipedia would work, but he was wrong! the miraculous power of scale &#8211; &#8222;Sure, the experts say only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiara.org\/blog\/?p=272\">1% of Wikipedia&#8217;s users<\/a> actually contribute to making it better. Indeed, if you do the math, it&#8217;s even worse than that: probably closer to 0.01% (today, Wikipedia has <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:About\">75,000 active contributors out of 684 million visitors<\/a>). But that 0.01% have created <em>10 million articles<\/em>. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The lesson is that <strong>more is different<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longtail.com\/the_long_tail\/2008\/11\/the-miraculous.html\">the whole article and video &#8211; here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>surfing around I came to this nice video, back a few years Sergey Brin admits he did not believe Wikipedia would work, but he was wrong!&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,8,9],"tags":[91,87,89,88,90],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.justinetoms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}