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Every • Why I like Dispo
In the network view…jeez, GenGen was getting coverage like you couldn’t pay for, better than in the twentieth century when millions were forced to watch just what the few had decided was Important.
Vernor Vinge • Rainbows End
Publishers still perform other functions in selecting, editing, and marketing work (dozens of people besides me have worked to improve this book, for example), but they no longer form the barrier between private and public writing.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
I positioned myself as simply the curator of valuable information.
Pat Flynn • Will It Fly?: How to Test Your Next Business Idea So You Don't Waste Your Time and Money
This dialectic is muddy from the get-go, of course. It’s a version of the more familiar hipster trap: over time, the marginal labor of the bohemian experimentalist and taste-maker is swallowed up by the smug cartoon of the in-the-know consumer clone. But the near inevitability of this process also suggests that the first hipster was already part of... See more
Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
decentralised crowd-funding and peer-to-peer finance models, alternative currency systems, and co-operative risk-sharing systems.
Brett Scott • Heretic's Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money
