everyday observations of regular people

Success in the free-copy world is not derived from the skills of distribution since the [internet] takes care of that. Nor are legal skills surrounding Intellectual Property and Copyright very useful anymore. Nor are the skills of hoarding and scarcity. Rather, these new eight generatives demand an understanding of how abundance breeds a sharing mindset, how generosity is a business model, how vital it has become to cultivate and nurture qualities that can’t be replicated with a click of the mouse.

Kevin Kelly, discussing what becomes valuable when the cost of reproducing creative works is nil (via syntheticpubes)

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I don’t even have a TV.

Benjamin Palmer

mind you, mr. palmer is CEO of the Barbarian Group.

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Brands in 2009

looking ahead, i talk a bit about the role of the brand and how it can change the current engagement breakdown of the web.

Derek Powazek - Pixish Closing October 31

In community-generated media, trust is everything. When you ask for submissions, contributors go through an instant internal calculation: “Do I trust these people with my work?” When your site is brand new, you’ve got no record to rely on. And with more shady “user-generated content” schemes popping up every day, people have their defenses up (as well they should).

Our proposition was made even more complicated because we were trying to create a maketplace. When a magazine opens for submissions, you’re submitting to that magazine. But Pixish was one step removed - anyone could make an assignment. So even if you trusted Pixish, you didn’t necessarily trust the person who posted the assignment.

We should have done more to earn that trust, and help members trust each other.

important lessons.

I’m a bit restless. I still have a much longer post on why a major local media organization is hamstringing themselves by not making their content direct and accessible. Why it’d behoove them to, why they had a chance to do it right from the beginning, corner the hyperlocal market and probably make a pretty penny all while innovating.

It started to unravel and become disjointed so it now sits in a GOOG docs drafts folder for a rainy day.

How did I get here? Like I said, I was restless. I decided to check out Wilson’s re-design. Exceptional as always, it put Django in front of my face again. I’ve always wanted to work with this platform somehow. Specifically, with Ellington. That reminded me about how I couldn’t find something on the web that I know was in print and how much this probably happens to thousands of other people who live close to me. Blah, blah, blah…back to the top of this post.

NPR: Planet Money

from the guys who brought you those TAL episodes everyone is freaking out about. also, equally important, laura conaway (BPP alumnus) is an editor.

lets hope they don’t can this one too.

maryrambin:

The Q&A regarding personal branding.

this was a surprisingly good event. i was on-time and everything until i hopped out of the cab i took down there and promptly realized that it sped away with my phone. called 311 right away and filed a report. with things looking grim, i actually was in-line at the 92Y to check-in when kate told me to do the obvious (call my phone - i had my company Blackberry w/ me as well).

with that simple solution, i probably used up all my karma points for the month. the cabbie answered and told me to meet him a few blocks away.

about 15 minutes late, i slid-in during julia’s talk. straight-forward tactical branding advice. while mary watched julia’s dog next to me, loren then made some great points about a brand vs. one’s reputation and persona. he differentiated himself and his brand. one is scalable, the other is not. gary continued a similar trend. emphatic and expounding some points loren made as well as including some of his own. very similar to his popular Web2.0 keynote.

afterwards, did an interview for mediabistro on-demand then introduced myself to loren & michelle. would’ve loved to speak with the ladies but they bolted while julia was doing her on-demand stuff. also asked gary about a good wine for the woman who doesn’t like wine.

an evening well spent.

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People spend a lot more time on MySpace than they do on Facebook. Every survey agrees on that. Facebook, they tend to go in to contact friends, to look up who they are going to be in college with, to find old friends, or whatever. On MySpace, people go look for new friends.

Rupert Murdoch profile - Rupert Murdoch Has Potential - Esquire (via ricky)

i hope he realizes what he’s saying here. one facilitates valuable, real-life social connections and the other is a popularity contest.

i know business is business and what time spent on a web site (that is supported by advertising) means but, still, think about what the end game is going to be and when people wise-up, what will happen.

otherwise, great piece.

Fan fiction. Brand hijacking. Copyright misuse. Sheer devotion. Call it what you will, but we call it the blurred line between content creators and content consumers, and it’s not going away. We’re your biggest fans, your die-hard proponents, and when your show gets cancelled we’ll be among the first to pass around the petition. Talk to us. Befriend us. Engage us. But please, don’t treat us like criminals.

We Are Sterling Cooper

In response to AMC’s mishandling of the fan maintained Twitter accounts of several Mad Men characters.

(via herosquad)

i’m going to be paying very close attention to this: