The folks at the WIKINOMICS blog have a post titled “All bugs are shallow . . . ” They explain:

Years ago in his fantastic Linux related essay, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Eric Raymond wrote “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”

Today this applies way beyond software, and increasingly in the field of government and governance. We’ve talked several times about how citizen blogs, citizen journalism, and the massive networks, both formal and informal, of concerned global citizens are creating a new paradigm within which governments must operate. . . .

The rest of the post has more interesting ideas and links, plus an image of the cover of All the President’s Men with pictures of those handsome actors Hoffman and Redford who played the guys who chased Nixon’s buggers.