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"absoulutely. lurk is the cognitive apprenticeship term for legitimate peripheral participation. the culture of the internet allows you to link, lurk, and learn. once you lurk you can pick up the genre of that community, and you can move from the periphery to the center safely asking a question - sometimes more safely virtually than physically - and then back out again. it has provided a platform for perhaps the most successful form of learning that civilization has ever seen. we may now be in a position to really leverage the community mind."

the debriefing [of] john seely brown, wired 8.08