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Michel Bauwens on the Relation between Peer Production and Corporations - P2P Foundation
The openness of the digital commons has created abundant and freely available social value but not a way to monetize it. In the talk from the 2008 Emerging Communications Conference, Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation asks: to which degree are the inter
IT Conversations | Emerging Communications | Michel Bauwens on peer producing communities and their corporate backers
The openness of the digital commons has created abundant and freely available social value but not a way to monetize it. In the talk from the 2008 Emerging Communications Conference, Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation asks: to which degree are the inte
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Critical Information Studies For a Participatory Culture (Part One)
There is an urgent need for serious reflection on the core models of cultural production, distribution, ownership, and participation underlying "web 2.0." Almost everyone involved sees our culture as moving in a more participatory direction, yet struggles
Facebook Takes a Dive: Why Social Networks Are Bad Businesses - TIME
The business of having online sites with content created by amateurs to be viewed by other amateurs never had a reasonable chance of making money. The fact that at one point Facebook had a $15 billion valuation, that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp (NWS) bough
Watching YouTube » Video as Social Agent
powerful interests are making considerable efforts to treat information as private property, to restrict its circulation, to thwart a creative commons and to captalise on controlled creativity. In the new global techno-military-entertainment complex, the
Crowdsourcing: Is Crowdsourcing Evil and Other Moot Questions ...
Witness the upheaval currently afflicting the design industry, sparked by the rise of so-called "spec design" sites like crowdSPRING and 99designs. On these sites customers post creative briefs directly to the community, which then competes to create a de
Read me first: Inclusion or deletion? In the end, it's actually about money | Technology | The Guardian
Partially at issue here were the tensions created by Wikia (a venture capital-funded startup also co-founded by Wales) which has no major financial connection to Wikipedia but has been described by Trader Daily magazine as an "effort to take the success –
The Database of Intentions is More Valuable than the Database of Musings For Now | SocialComputingMagazine.com
You need a lot of intentions across a wide variety of interests to build a service that's useful to a wide variety of advertisers - Being a database of intentions or musings or whatever requires scale. And it's not web 2.0 scale (millions) but Internet sc
Fan Fiction: Six Apart's teen-alien problem
"Here's the more interesting question: how on earth did the internet suits ever think they could colonize the wilder fringes of the internet?"
Facebook Launches Facebook Bill of Rights, Reverts to Previous Terms of Use - ReadWriteWeb
Facebook has decided to return to its previous Terms - dated September 23, 2008 - until it can better determine how to proceed. To help ensure they don't make the same mistakes again, they've also started the "Facebook Bill of Rights," a Facebook group fo
michaelzimmer.org » Facebook’s New Content License Extends Beyond Closure of Account
usually, such a license expires if you close your account and/or remove your content form the site.
But, apparently Facebook wants to keep their license even if you remove the content from the website. Consumerist reports that Facebook has changed its te
Who Owns Our User-Generated Content and Online Collaborations | Peter Bihr on Social Media, Web 2.0 and Digital Life
a rough guideline, telling companies what is legitimate and what isn’t, regarding the content the users produce. So far, it’s sadly fairly common for companies to wrap very one-sided deals into their end user license agreements (like the rights to distrib
Digital Sharecropping - P2P Foundation
One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the many and the concentration of the economic rewards into the hands of the few. It's a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are general
SSRN-The Prospects for Cyberocracy (Revisited) by David Ronfeldt, Danielle Varda
postscript to the 1992 landmark essay
Will Work for Praise: The Web's Free-Labor Economy - BusinessWeek
Beyond brand-hungry strivers, masses of free laborers continue to toil without ever seeing a payday, or even angling for one. Many find compensation in currencies that predate the market economy. These include winning praise from peers, earning an exalted
YouTube's top-20 videos reveal rising corporatization of content | The Open Road - CNET News
A look last week at the site's current 20 most viewed clips of all time--all with more than 50m hits--offered a snapshot of the corporatizing effect. A good half of them were professional music videos...Even among actual user-generated content, many of th
Does Adam Kirsch Get It? : Ruminate
The whole essay on writer’s aspiration, fame, and the age of blogs and the Internet is worth a read: The Internet has democratized the means of self-expression, but it has not democratized the rewards of self-expression.
Online Communities: The Tribalization of Business - O'Reilly Radar
Businesses should begin with the question, “how can I satisfy the needs of this community?”- and then follow the community’s lead. Be open to the unexpected. In my experience this is one of the hardest things for companies to get behind and relegates this
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