Comments on: The Information Economy http://www.hannahnicklin.com/2009/08/the-information-economy/ Playwright, blogger, academic, tech-enthusiast. Eco-anarcha-socialist-cyber-feminist. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:44:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Hannah Nicklin » Blog Archive » The Future of Politics is Mutual http://www.hannahnicklin.com/2009/08/the-information-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-1386 Hannah Nicklin » Blog Archive » The Future of Politics is Mutual Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:27:39 +0000 http://www.hannahnicklin.com/?p=377#comment-1386 [...] age. For better or worse that is something that must be accepted. There is a rival economy, and it consists of information, it is a world (democratically, one might say) built of a thousand individual narratives. No one [...] [...] age. For better or worse that is something that must be accepted. There is a rival economy, and it consists of information, it is a world (democratically, one might say) built of a thousand individual narratives. No one [...]

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]]> By: Doug http://www.hannahnicklin.com/2009/08/the-information-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Doug Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:49:26 +0000 http://www.hannahnicklin.com/?p=377#comment-187 A good post; so many thought follow, but that would be boring. People aren't living in a way they want to. Freelancers like yourself are in the vanguard of a new economy based on home/local working powered by the Internet. That much is obvious at this moment. For it to become pervasive, we need better tools - micropayment systems, commercial networks along the lines of social networks for work-related activities, simpler systems, and so on. And while we're talking about Truth and openness, we can also encourage it by opening up financial transactions (say, over $10,000) so that they become available on the Internet for public scrutiny. (BTW, before "monetization" there was "commercialization", and before that there was "making a living". Just saying.) A good post; so many thought follow, but that would be boring.

People aren’t living in a way they want to. Freelancers like yourself are in the vanguard of a new economy based on home/local working powered by the Internet. That much is obvious at this moment. For it to become pervasive, we need better tools – micropayment systems, commercial networks along the lines of social networks for work-related activities, simpler systems, and so on. And while we’re talking about Truth and openness, we can also encourage it by opening up financial transactions (say, over $10,000) so that they become available on the Internet for public scrutiny.

(BTW, before “monetization” there was “commercialization”, and before that there was “making a living”. Just saying.)

]]> By: Hannah Nicklin http://www.hannahnicklin.com/2009/08/the-information-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-167 Hannah Nicklin Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:03:03 +0000 http://www.hannahnicklin.com/?p=377#comment-167 I'm not arguing for a preservation of Twitter - I'm arguing for a preservation of innovation, which multinational style social media will kill off. Facebook is trying to corner *all* of the market - and that's the problem, social media will and should come and go, models of perpetual growth are unsustainable. My argument just finds it form in the twitter/facebook rivalry. People didn't invent the wheel to monetise it, they invented it to transport their goods more efficiently. Computers and engines do bring in money, but they're not designed to do so, and they were invented by brilliant and insane people. Babbage and Lovelace worked for the love of maths. What I'm saying is don't kill the love for the sake of the product, we need the ideas before we need the profit. Coders don't code with the aim of utopia in mind, but they do work for the purest expression of their ideas. If we google 'utopia' we get "an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal"... Just my thoughts. I’m not arguing for a preservation of Twitter – I’m arguing for a preservation of innovation, which multinational style social media will kill off. Facebook is trying to corner *all* of the market – and that’s the problem, social media will and should come and go, models of perpetual growth are unsustainable. My argument just finds it form in the twitter/facebook rivalry.

People didn’t invent the wheel to monetise it, they invented it to transport their goods more efficiently. Computers and engines do bring in money, but they’re not designed to do so, and they were invented by brilliant and insane people. Babbage and Lovelace worked for the love of maths. What I’m saying is don’t kill the love for the sake of the product, we need the ideas before we need the profit.

Coders don’t code with the aim of utopia in mind, but they do work for the purest expression of their ideas. If we google ‘utopia’ we get “an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal”… Just my thoughts.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.hannahnicklin.com/2009/08/the-information-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-166 Anonymous Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:37:22 +0000 http://www.hannahnicklin.com/?p=377#comment-166 Interesting post, but I couldn't agree less. The last thing we need is a Twitter preservation society: if it's better than facebook then it will manage itself... And if there wasn't the word monetization then google, Twitter, microsoft, computers, internal combustion engines and the wheel wouldn't exist. People don't programme unt their eyes bleed because they dream of utopia... Interesting post, but I couldn’t agree less. The last thing we need is a Twitter preservation society: if it’s better than facebook then it will manage itself… And if there wasn’t the word monetization then google, Twitter, microsoft, computers, internal combustion engines and the wheel wouldn’t exist. People don’t programme unt their eyes bleed because they dream of utopia…

]]> By: Hannah Nicklin http://www.hannahnicklin.com/2009/08/the-information-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Hannah Nicklin Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:41:50 +0000 http://www.hannahnicklin.com/?p=377#comment-164 Thanks for reading, Ben :-) Thanks for reading, Ben Smile

]]> By: Hannah Nicklin http://www.hannahnicklin.com/2009/08/the-information-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-163 Hannah Nicklin Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:41:32 +0000 http://www.hannahnicklin.com/?p=377#comment-163 NB, I know this doesn't address the fact that we need money to invest, cultivate and survive too, there is a bit more on that (IE that we need a new model and new measures of economic success) in the Bums on Seats post http://bit.ly/bqhj6 The online world now is about what you want to pull from it, not the push of old school marketing. I could go on, but I have actual work to do :) when I'm properly doing my PhD (October) I'll have more time to write about it. NB, I know this doesn’t address the fact that we need money to invest, cultivate and survive too, there is a bit more on that (IE that we need a new model and new measures of economic success) in the Bums on Seats post http://bit.ly/bqhj6 The online world now is about what you want to pull from it, not the push of old school marketing. I could go on, but I have actual work to do Smile when I’m properly doing my PhD (October) I’ll have more time to write about it.

]]> By: Ben Walker http://www.hannahnicklin.com/2009/08/the-information-economy/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Ben Walker Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:25:55 +0000 http://www.hannahnicklin.com/?p=377#comment-162 Yes. Yes, yes and yes. Indeed. Yes. Yes, yes and yes.

Indeed.

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