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This idealized ecology model may never exist in practice, but points toward specialization and cooperation. A single conversation and repository core (or a coordinated multicore system) relying for specific services on outside specialist resources, and actively linking to relevant content in the creative “fringe” of blogs. These blogs would keep the alternative and dissenting views solidly backed with content, thus ensuring the liveliness of community debate.

In real life, the most probable ecosystem will include some sort of collaboration as described above, and a number of initiatives or resources that refuse to collaborate or coordinate with the bigger, wider network. Thus evolution, and creative destruction, will persist, with the community’s practitioners acting as judges and tools of the usefulness, and ultimately the success, of each competing option.