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Simon Owens • Quibi could have succeeded. Here's how
Historically, most of our questions about the value of content have focused on the distribution side, rather than the production side. Today, the most interesting questions we can ask will focus on how content is made and maintained, and by whom. We’ve previously treated content as a first-copy cost problem, and have developed solutions like patent... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Alan Watts about the loss of privacy we can expect when we become a planetary superorganism with an electronic nervous system https://t.co/kznelHHgis
Barriers to entry : One way to avoid creating a platform crushed by questions about how to deal with bad actors is to raise the cost of entry. Barriers to entry may take the form of geographic localization, interest segmentation, high cost of discovery, or strong gatekeeping.
Jon Askonas • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs
provided my point of reference.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Eventually Bill realized that feature wars were stupid, made Internet Explorer the free, default browser for all Windows users, and won the market. Thus, a lesson was learned: when apps compete with the platforms they live on, the platform usually wins.
Evan Armstrong • How Do You Compete with Free? Notion: the embattled artist
Blame human nature. As much as we intellectually appreciate openness, at the end of the day we favor the easiest path. We'll pay for convenience and reliability, which is why iTunes can sell songs for 99 cents despite the fact that they are out there, somewhere, in some form, for free. When you are young, you have more time than money, and LimeWire... See more
Michael Wolff • The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet
Yet this definition of “public goods” has done more to justify self-serving activities for cryptocurrency insiders than the term suggests. We wanted to counter this empty definition and advocate for a more expansive view, informed by historical and social notions of the “public” and “good.”
Toby Shorin • Curating Value Exchange: Presentation + Q&A with Hito Steyerl
This is not so crazy. The more I look, the more I find activists, lawyers, investors and entrepreneurs around the world who are exploring options along these lines, often while seeking to address some of the deep problems of internet culture. Community ownership could be a way of rooting out the abuses that we often see with the billion-dollar “uni... See more