Carr-Benkler wager

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The Carr-Benkler wager is between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr about whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced or price-incentivized systems.

The wager was proposed by Benkler in July 2006 in a comment to a blog post where Carr criticizes Benkler's views about volunteer peer-production.[1][2]

Benkler believes that by 2010 the major sites will have content provided by volunteers in what Benkler calls Commons-based peer production, as in Wikipedia, Digg, Flickr and YouTube.[3] Carr argues that the trend will favor content provided by paid workers, as in most traditional news outlets.

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  1. ^ Carr, Nicholas. Calacanis's wallet and the Web 2.0 dream.. Retrieved on 2007-10-24.
  2. ^ Benkler, Yochai. Benkler on Calacanis's wallet.. Retrieved on 2007-11-05.
  3. ^ Fox, Justin. "Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free.", Time (magazine), February 15, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-03. 
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