Thursday, July 28, 2005
ACM News Service: "'Co-opting the Creative Revolution'
BBC News (07/15/05); Twist, Jo
Digital thinkers say organizations will have to get used to distributed groups of people working together to innovate on content now that more powerful and easy-to-use computing tools are in their hands. At the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in Oxford, U.K., digital futurists cited as an example the emergence of the mountain bike in the United States, and how a few northern Californian consumers collaborated to create something that specifically met their need. Similarly, people are taking advantage of blogging, services, peer-to-peer distribution of content, grid computing, and open source software to produce and share content. For example, people are using tag-based applications, and the keywords make it easier to classify content usefully and for others to find it. The people who are using tagging tools may have no idea how a real library is organized. Digital authority Clay Shirky says these people may not be credentialed librarians, but they are likely to determine how content is classified online in the years to come. Over the next 50 years, companies and other organizations will struggle with the creative contributions of Internet users due to patent and copyright concerns, digital experts say.
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BBC News (07/15/05); Twist, Jo
Digital thinkers say organizations will have to get used to distributed groups of people working together to innovate on content now that more powerful and easy-to-use computing tools are in their hands. At the Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in Oxford, U.K., digital futurists cited as an example the emergence of the mountain bike in the United States, and how a few northern Californian consumers collaborated to create something that specifically met their need. Similarly, people are taking advantage of blogging, services, peer-to-peer distribution of content, grid computing, and open source software to produce and share content. For example, people are using tag-based applications, and the keywords make it easier to classify content usefully and for others to find it. The people who are using tagging tools may have no idea how a real library is organized. Digital authority Clay Shirky says these people may not be credentialed librarians, but they are likely to determine how content is classified online in the years to come. Over the next 50 years, companies and other organizations will struggle with the creative contributions of Internet users due to patent and copyright concerns, digital experts say.
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