This document discusses several topics related to technology and its social impacts. It notes that while technological powers increase, so do potential side effects and hazards. It also addresses issues like how to empower users, the impact of mobile broadband, and how information is shared and given meaning on social networks. The document advocates focusing on engagement over enforcement and exploring where information exists. It concludes by suggesting growing network effects and exploiting compliant platforms.
Lost In Translation - From Free Software to Free CultureRhea Myers
A discussion of differences between Free Software and Free Culture licensing, and how that has impacted Free Culture.
Talk given at http://freeculture.info/
When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
1. After all is said and done,
more is said than done.
bostonian
9:49:42, Fri Aug 17, 2012
2. “ Our technological
powers increase, but
the side effects and
potential hazards also
escalate. ”
—Alvin Toffler
3. Don't put gold buttons on a torn coat.
· Equate network access with content access.
· Realize that the more you empower the user the more
money she will give you.
· Mobile broadband is set to explode so what happens to
Content Creators?
· So, in this case each post becomes a node of your
identity, which is shared with the entirety of the social
network.
4. All have a right to be heard and a responsibility to
listen.
Capture viral relationships
5. One simple maxim is often worth more than two
good friends.
· Don't focus on protection: focus on engagement, on
attraction, on enabling followers not pushing
enforcement.
· The new aesthetic inevitably raised questions around its
novelty, historicity, ontological basis,gender bias,
politics.
· In other words, I pay for the design, the printing and
shipping, and only implicitly for the 'words'.
· This makes collective existence traceable in a way that
has not been possible before.
7. If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with
shallow water.
· Playlouder in the UK has a similar model of bundled, all-
you-can-eat access.
· Data is the new Gold mine it!
· In other words one man's spam is another man's art.
· But for now it is important to explore where information
exists and what gives it meaning, thus separating good
information from bad information.
8. In conclusion
· Grow B2C network effects
· Exploit standards-compliant blogospheres
· Grow front-end bandwidth
· and remember: It is easier to believe than to go and ask.
10. Credits
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Daniel*1977, Gn!pGnop, bohdii, haslo, klaw247,
· Fiction is Friction - Gerd Leonhard
mikecogh
· The End of Control - Gerd Leonhard
· Music 2.0 - Gerd Leonhard
· New Aesthetic, New Anxieties - David M. Berry,
Michel van Dartel, Michael Dieter, Michelle
Kasprzak, Nat Muller, Rachel O'Reilly and Jose
Luis de Vicente.