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P. Arora and F. Vermeylen, “The End of the Art Connoisseur? Experts and Knowledge Production in the Visual Arts in the Digital Age,” Information Communication and Society (2012), doi:10.1080/1369118X.2012.687392.

Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth

“The former audience joins the party,” wrote Dan Gillmor in We the Media (2004). “The people formerly known as the audience,” Jay Rosen called us in a 2006 blog post. “You can play this game too,” suggested Clay Shirky in Cognitive Surplus (2010).

Andrey Mir • The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution

We live in a world where more and more people have the ability to publish what they think, feel or learn about, via web sites, blogs, microblogs and social networks. We live in a world where this “democratised” publishing has the ability to reach millions, perhaps billions. These are powerful abilities. And with those powerful abilities comes power... See more

JP Rangaswami • On firehoses and filters: Part 1

Great things are usually made by specialists, not by all of us. These specialists can create things that the rest of us want. This means that networks can emerge with two groups: one that supplies something valuable, and another which consumes that service. This is where the most valuable type of Internet company enters the game: aggregators.

Uncharted Territories • Platforms and Aggregators

In a speech delivered years ago, Ev Williams used agriculture as a metaphor to understand what’s possible on the Internet.

Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and industrialized farms with lit... See more

Sari Azout • Notes on Scale + Quality

People like to consume media, but they also like to produce it ("Look what I made!") and share it ("Look what I found!").

Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Pioneering technology journalist Clay Shirky understood how community-driven software changes everything: “We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.” But it doesn’t end with software. The goal of the smallest viable audience is to find

Seth Godin • This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See

Eli Pariser put it on the Techdirt Podcast recently. It’s like we live in a world with no libraries, only bookstores. And in that case, “you don’t blame a bookstore for not being a library,” says Eli. Instead, you figure out how to open a dang library! And once you have a library, you don’t evaluate it in bookstore terms — no one expects 10x or 100... See more

Browse versus search is a radical increase in the trust we put in link infrastructure, and in the degree of power derived from that link structure.