13 January 2003

LazyWeb and RSS: Given enough eyeballs, are features shallow too? Clay Shirky asks whether technology like RSS and social constructs/ideas like the Lazyweb will provide open-source software efforts with the same kind of lever for feature development that numbers-of-developers-on-net provided for bug-fixing (this is not to say that open-source hasn't created software with great features, merely that feature dev in large, distributed teams seems a harder challenge than bug-barbecuing) 3:48:50 PM     comments