P2P Business
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: The quality of peer production
Paul Duguid takes a hard and rigorous look at whether, and to what extent, web-based peer production can produce quality work.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Calacanis’s wallet and the Web 2.0 dream
the reason “social media” have existed outside the price system up until now is simply that a market hadn’t yet emerged for this new kind of labor.
Is the Internet A Long Tail Ghetto ? – Blog Maverick
very interesting comment on how you still need “Big Money” to break out of the long tail
Who Will Make Money with User-Generated Online Video? » Publishing 2.0
compares the different business and revenue models in the online video space
The 2.0 Control Paradox » Publishing 2.0
There is a fundamental tension in Web/Media 2.0 between openness and control — openness is required to leverage the network effect of the Web and harness the power of socially-connected users, but control is required to get a share of any money.
More Evidence That Media 2.0 May Be Less Profitable Than Media 1.0 » Publishing 2.0
“the loss of control. Web 2.0 works great as an ideology, but maybe not so great as the basis for a media economy. Less control = less profit.�
EMI Music CEO says the CD is ‘dead’ // Zeropaid.com
“The CD as it is right now is dead,” Levy said, adding that 60% of consumers put CDs into home computers in order to transfer material to digital music players.â€?
P2P Governance and politics
Nine spheres of governance
DSTAIR separates the essential elements of government and society into nine “spheres”.
Lessig and Nick Carr debate Commonism
“Lessig isn’t really interested in describing the world as it is. His eyes are on a further goal. He wants to redefine “Web 2.0” in order to promote a particular ideology, the ideology of digital communalism.â€?
P2P Learning
A Learning Objects Literature Review at iterating toward openness
reviews the learning objects literature in approximately 5,000 words
Steve Hargadon blog on FLOSS in Education
Blog with podcasts about open source learning approaches
P2P Science
Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Everthing you always wanted to know about the open access movement.
P2P Technology
P2P Blog » Platial brings collaborative maps to blogs and Myspace profiles
Platial.com just released a new extension of their mapping service called Mapkit. It allows anyone to integrate annotated maps into their weblog
Six barriers to open source adoption – TechUpdate – ZDNet
From 2004, but still useful reference to gauge open source progress
Open Standards: Principles and Practice
Clear definition of what open standards should entail in theory and practice.