It's very clever, but solves the wrong problem. It's basically doing what a revision control system like Git does, but for a different reason. Everything is pay per view in Xanadu. It's micropayments to the max. Everybody who contributed to the article gets a cut, in proportion to how much content they contributed. So there's all that tracking.
Also, pictures? What are those? Audio and video? Don't even think about it.
It's an elaborately optimized design that optimizes for the wrong thing. It belongs to the world in which Mead Data Systems and MEDLINE and NEXIS and LEXIS, all pay to search and read systems, dominated information access. If Elsevier had designed the Web, it would work like this.
I knew that crowd back when they were doing this. Great people, but too many were of the "everything should be a market" persuasion.
Also, pictures? What are those? Audio and video? Don't even think about it.
It's an elaborately optimized design that optimizes for the wrong thing. It belongs to the world in which Mead Data Systems and MEDLINE and NEXIS and LEXIS, all pay to search and read systems, dominated information access. If Elsevier had designed the Web, it would work like this.
I knew that crowd back when they were doing this. Great people, but too many were of the "everything should be a market" persuasion.