Letter From God
Katrina and I were checking some things out on YouTube. We both like this nifty UK team, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip. Their most popular tune is Thou Shalt Always Kill, which is fun itself. But this video, “Letter From God,” is interesting to consider. Do I agree with his point of view? Not necessarily, but it opened my mind up. Point to make to people thinking about the value of social media: you can explore MANY points of view for free online, spread them, and build movements with almost no cost, and with no restrictions and barriers.
What do you think?
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Authority Ownership and Mechanics
Three things change the way we’re using these tools for social media: authority, ownership, and mechanics. These are three of the five sources of a revolution, as stated by Moshe Yudkowsky in a podcast I heard recently. In the case of my point, let’s say that authority is answering “who has the ability to change things?” Ownership means “who owns what we create?” Mechanics is “how do we put it all together?” If you look at what matters to us in this age of making social media, using the web our way, and sharing information, I believe these are the three forces in play.
So now, the question becomes: how do you, as a professional, as a business, as someone with a product or service, contemplate those forces on YOUR ideas, products, services, deliverables? Are YOU the sole author of your efforts? Do YOU own the intellectual property, or have you open sourced it? Who can tinker with how it is used / displayed / consumed?
It’s easy to think about these things when we’re talking about someone else: “Record industry: let music be free,” but does it become a bit more difficult when you consider YOU and your relationship to these ideas?
Authority, ownership, mechanics. How do these forces impact what you’re doing?
Inspired by a presentation given by Moshe Yudkowsky about Revolutionary Telephony
Photo credit, ul_Marga
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