#6 – Accounting for successful platforms

Shirky’s model of promise, tool, and bargain apply in the same way to social tools not discussed in “Here Comes Everybody”. For example, Twitter, Facebook, Craig’s List, and Lastfm all give a very simple promise; they want the user to share their stories, likes, news, etc to their friends and online peers. They are also [...]

#5 – Communication, collaboration, filtering & failure

Wow this week’s practicum was challenging.. so much stuff already up there and I didn’t really think I had anything new to contribute..
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Shirky discussed in this recent reading of the new media production and how it affects us socially in communications, collaborations, and how we live our lives. He went back to some examples we [...]

#4 Clay Shirky – Sharing, Community, Remix

This is a little late, yesterday was my birthday!! (woo hoo I’m 21 haha)
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As I read this week’s reading in Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, I found the text to be a lot more comprehendable than Wikinomics in the way that Here Comes Everybody focuses on the action and reaction, and on the positive and [...]

#3 Tapscott & Williams – Platforms for Collaboration

Since I already wrote a bit about wikis in last week’s reading response, I think I will just focus on the platforms aspect of this week’s reading.
Two questions from the wiki prompt I’ll be writing about:
1.) What hinders the development of these platforms?
2.) Describe the tension between business and profit on the one hand, and [...]

chatting with parents

Today I was chatting with my parentals about what I’m learning in this course, (I don’t normally since during the school year I live on the other side of the continent) and I thought what they were saying was interesting.
I was talking to them about this whole idea of mass collaboration, and how the “Western” [...]

#2 Tapscott and Williams – Peer Pioneers Response

After this weeks reading, I’m very happy to have had some of my questions answered from the previous week (especially on music and how they would gain capital). But then I got to thinking how this open source model applies to my art practice, and whether it’s something I’d like. (Again, this came out so [...]

My Comments

these are all the posts I’ve commented on, I’ll update it each time.
http://meriliese.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/the-internet-is-more-than-facebook/#comment-10
http://judylin6868.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/humn-306-su90-1-open-for-editing/#respond
http://billydclam.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/humn-306-%E2%80%93-week-2-%E2%80%93-the-peer-pioneers-and-the-prosumers/#respond

chat thoughts

well today someone mentioned in chat that with open source, all the middle men would be taken out (ie bittorrent, we no longer have to pay for media)
Then… where exactly would the money come from to create media? For example, movies and films, are made with investments and then repaid through how well they do [...]

#1: Tapscott & Williams (Wikinomics)

I kind of made this WAY longer than expected, I started and just had more and more to add. My overall viewpoint of Wikinomics is that it is too optimistic, that it wouldn’t fully work in this current time for all applications. But this is just my understanding of the reading, please offer your counter-arguements [...]

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