Great job, Citizendium team, in profiling the Assignment Zero effort in your Citizendium entry on the topic.

I was one of the crowdsourced journalists who contributed to the AZ story on Citizendium, providing the side bar view by Encyclopedia Britannica. As I completed my piece, I realized that EB and Citizendium are really in different markets serving different customers and that there is certainly room in the universe for both approaches. Wikipedia remains dominant, of course, in Citizendium’s direct application space.

May I refer those at Citizendium to an excellent article on “Strategies to Crack Well-Guarded Markets” in the May 2007 Harvard Business Review, by David J. Bryce and Jeffrey H. Dyer, as a way to evolve and grow Citizendium in the Wikipedia world. Another resource to consider is the seminal book in its field, Diffusion of Innovation, by Everett Rogers.

I read once that information must be relevant, timely, and accurate to be synthesized into knowledge - a test that has always held in my experience. If Citizendium achieves these points in and through crafting and delivering its information products for the discerning knowledge seeker, then it will succeed and benefit humanity in crowdsourced ways. Time will tell.

Here’s to Citizendium’s success!