Delicious Every Other Day 12.8.09

The Myth of Wikipedia Democracy
'The Wikipedia elites may be partly to blame for the site's diminishing participation. In a survey conducted this year, nearly a quarter of respondents who declined to contribute to Wikipedia said they were "afraid of making a mistake and getting 'in trouble' for it," among other reasons.'

Facebook now has 350m users - and there's no point in advertising to them
"Facebook is the most glaring example of an unsolved puzzle: how to convert social networking into a sustainable business."

How our brains build social worlds
"During any kind of social interaction people unconsciously imitate each other, or else show the appropriate complementary action and reaction. When this happens, the parts of the brain that unconsciously respond to the actions of others create a form of resonance."

Philip K. Dick's Defense of Video Games
"Philip K. Dick’s fiction is a defense of the validity of video games because despite the fact that they are not real, his stories argue that there is still something valid in the artificial."

Will e-books spell the end of great writing?
"How much have our perceptions of reading and writing changed now that you can craft a novel on a laptop and scroll through it on a Nintendo games console? This Christmas could be the moment when our idea of curling up with a fat novel are transformed for ever."