Dirt: Complicated Culture
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Dirt: Complicated Culture
REDEF ORIGINAL: Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry
Matthew Ballredef.com
It’s not financially responsible to throw our ideas around online for free anymore, but the alternative threatens the spirit of what internet community is supposed to be about.
Kate Lindsay • The IP Generation
What’s being concentrated, in other words, is not content but the economic value of content. [The platforms] have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the many and the... See more
Tara McMullin • 'The Creator Economy Is Eating Creative Acts'
Today almost all creative work is digitized and essentially rented — lowering payouts, devaluing work, and redirecting the lion’s share of rewards to the platforms hosting the work rather than the creators themselves.
Yancey Strickler • The old shit doesn't work anymore
