Sunday, November 2, 2008

Internet collaboration still in infancy: Wikipedia founder

"What we haven't seen yet in video is large-scale collaborative projects."

Off the top of his head Wales suggested a 90-minute collaborative web video created by interviewing people from all around the world, giving their views on the war in Iraq.

He joked: "This isn't going to be that popular, frankly, a 90-minute movie with people talking about Iraq -- it's going to have a small audience. This can't be produced in the old-fashioned way. It's totally possible now.

"That's just one dumb idea of mine, right? Imagine what we could get if we could get 100,000 people thinking about collaborative video efforts to create documentary films, or comedy, or art, or who knows what.

"So, I think we've still got a long way to go."

Continued at: -PHYSORG-

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