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CSS is not revolutionary — the model has been proven before in entertainment. If you think about it, CSS is the next evolution of a cable subscription, where consumers are paying a monthly subscription fee in exchange for a service but ultimately do not own the TV shows or content they viewed. However, unlike cable, consumer subscription software... See more
Eric Crowley • Is Consumer Subscription the Next Software Boom market?
As I noted in my post on metrics, “Building systems using bad metrics doesn’t stop their self-optimization, they just optimize towards something you didn’t want.” Underspecified goals interact with this process in an interesting way.
David Manheim • Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
The industrial age depended on chunky blocks of text to influence government and opinion. The new digital world has preferred the power of the visual. What is usually referred to as new media really means the triumph of the image over the printed word.
Martin Gurri • The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium
A hyperstructure can simultaneously be free to use and also extremely valuable to own and govern. This is a familiar value model that we observe for NFTs: the media can be universally free to consume, yet valuable to own and control as an individual or group.
Jacob Horne • Hyperstructures
good questions and ideas
Schools have relied on tools like Moodle and Blackboard for online educational community engagement, but some combination of the tools and the methods of use remain embarrassingly under-powered, forced, and lacking anything that could truly be described as organic engagement. Asking students to write a 500-word post on Moodle is not creating... See more
Jonathan Hillis • Come for the course, stay for the community
Mimicking Bowie Bonds seems to be the most straightforward path, but really only works under a narrow set of circumstances.
