The knowledge behind the actions

REM Open source video: Supernatural Superserious

mistressmostly — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:25:53 +0000

REM released 11 videos (HD) for 1 song from their new album under an open source license (other than Creative Commons).

Businessmodell: Invite people to play with and distribute remixed videos, to attract potential byers to their YouTube website where you can hear the music, buy the ring tones and the album.
Remixers get fame, REM gets awareness and distribution for free – linked back to the product for sale.

Private copying levy/blank media tax

mistressmostly — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:28:48 +0000

A tax in addition to a general sales tax, that is put on recordable media. The income generated is received by a private body, such as a copyright collective.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

Company and community sharing/not sharing revenue

mistressmostly — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:41:05 +0000

Revenue sharing, from ads or similar income generators, between companies and their connected communties providing the content is uncommon, and not an expected relation between community and a given company, should money at some point be generated.
(E.g MySpace or YouTube)
A company host the site, design the frames of the site.
Users have their playground, designing the activity and the information flow.
Sharing of revenue is only common when a contract between user and company explicitly state that, typically a cornerstone in attracting a community
But more often it is the case that companies have direct affiliate programs, stating the benefit of one user, to connect others. (E.g Rebtel Affiliate program on Facebook).

CNN sets up complete user generated news site

mistressmostly — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:56:56 +0000

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cnn_to_launch_completely_user.php

CNN establishes a complete portal dedicated to user generated news, the community will be the sole moderators. No top-down control or censorship.

Citizen journalism (only user generated content)

Post-moderated content (community decides what news are – moderating already uploaded content – no restrictions in production)

Business model? What are the values of this:
Awareness, connecting community activity to a brand (CNN?)?
How do they measure the value?
How concretely is CNN tapping into the resources of the producing community?

A Swarm of Angels

aaseroyset — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:52:56 +0000

I’ve only glanced at their website, but this seems like a project you might be interested in, Elisabeth. If you don’t know of it already…

Loads of info here: http://aswarmofangels.com/2008/01/7-rules-for-open-source-media/
and here: http://aswarmofangels.com/fund/mission-milestones/

and Creative Commons have posted a blog about ‘em here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/7964

Attention economy vs value of communities

mistressmostly — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:59:36 +0000

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/attention_economy_overview.php

Quotes from the article:

The economical aspect of keeping the attention of users in an increasingly more vast info-sphere, reducing “false positives” (an expectation of a user that is not met by a service or a product), and of giving away services in return for a users attention:

“When information is abundant, the false positives are very costly – they are basically deal breakers.”
” The idea behind the Attention Economy is to create a marketplace where consumers are happy, because if they are shown relevant information – then retailers are happy too, because happy consumers spend money!”

“a marketplace where consumers agree to receives services in exchange for their attention. The ultimate purpose is of course to sell something to the consumer, but the selling does not need to be direct and does not need to be instant. For example news feeds illustrate the point well, since they ask for consumers attention in exchange for the opportunity to show him/her advertising”

NB:

This system is an example of what many deem to be the nature of web 3.0:
- personal customization based on your individual desires, needs, wants.
I.o.w privacy, personal control of your attention, relevance of information .
Tailor-made and automatic (via software) distribution and channeling of goods and services to each end-consumer.

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The passionate consumer/user

Compassionate participant

Introdusing Mostly reserach

mistressmostly — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 13:18:48 +0000

This blog focuses on:

What value is created by an open sharing of user-generated content?
What value does online-communities add to an existing business?
Appearing trends around copyleft/open copyright as a business model, mainly within the areas of music, photo and film/video

This blog is set up with the purpose of letting my client, as well as a collaborative network, have access and the possibility of adding to the research material for my final project.

I invite you to add to and comment on the posts throughout the project phase.