Hardin talks about the tragedy of the commons and relates it to the model of sheep on a field. Positive : the herder receives all of the proceeds from each ad

Hardin talks about the tragedy of the commons and relates it to the model of sheep on a field. Positive : the herder receives all of the proceeds from each additional animal Negative : the pasture is slightly degraded by each additional animal This is very similar to the web 2.0 model on the internet today where applications get smarter/stronger when people use them. Except on the web, each additional user makes the overall web application stronger. A perfect example is wikipedia itself. When somebody publishes an article, it is a cost of 1. And then to a user reading, he or she gets the benefit of N is the number of articles, but for simplicity's sake, let's say the number of users. Where do the negatives come in? Is there a "tragedy" in web 2.0?