Collaboration, Community, Tribes & Open Source Art

[ASVogel]

Interesting article which goes into the social science of the success of communities and constructs (I thought of Concept Art while reading this as a great example):

http://digitalapplejuice.com/paradig...en-source-art/

[Opilione]

I'm a bit meh about his concept of the "virtual elimination of geography". Across the US states? Maybe. Outside of that, people's experiences of the internet are vastly different, thanks to things like state censorship and the quality of internet access provided, if the privilege of internet access is available to a certain community.

And the whole thing about becoming a "leader" is kind of creepy and a bit contradictory to the comments about the problems with top-down business strategies.

[squidmonk3j]

i'll go you one further:

http://www.hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html#labelTAZ

[ASVogel]

Opilione: Most of my interest in the article was the formation of social constructs, especially how it related to the relative success of banding together and growing niches of interest. Your points are indeed valid, I do think the author is guilty of that out-dated feeling of internet as the "revolution" that they think it is.

squidmonk3j: Thanks for the link, I'm really enjoying that article. I hate my day job because I have to wait until I get home to finish it.