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The Web is Flat
1. The Web is Flat
Sander Spek
elektropost@sander-s.net
Infonomics & New Media
European Centre for Digital Communication
(INM-EC/DC), Zuyd University
2. The World is Flat
A brief history of the twenty-first century
Thomas L. Friedman
(2005, 2006, 2007)
3. Book titles (and sales)
The World is Flat
The End of Poverty
In Defense of Globalization
Globalization and it's Discontents
4. Book titles (and sales)
The World is Flat 1
The End of Poverty 515
In Defense of Globalization 20,602
Globalization and it's Discontents 52,196
(On Amazon.com selling lists,
according to Leamer, 2006)
5. Lecture overview
A flat world.
The flat web, meaning:
Open source. Web2.0 and
user-generated content.
Source-generated content.
Open content. Embedded
Publishing.
17. Web 2.0 is the business revolution in
the computer industry caused by the
move to the internet as platform, and
an attempt to understand the rules
for success on that new platform.
Tim O'Reilly (2006)
37. The Wisdom of Crowds
‘‘Given enough eyeballs,
all bugs are shallow’’
38.
39. Wikipedia’s track record
English (Oct 2006)
> 1.4 Million English articles
> 800.000 new articles a day
Dutch
> 400.000 Dutch articles (last week)
Studies by a.o. c’t Magazine and Nature
40.
41. Community success
1. Individual value
2. Collective value
3. General value
44. [I am] actually convinced that people will
eventually have had enough of the
nonsense, and they will want to pay for
good quality. At a certain point nobody
wants to watching shitting dogs on
YouTube anymore. It may be free, it
remains a waste of time.
Andrew Keen
45. Copyright
Copyleft
Public Domain
46. Copyleft
Takes the best of both worlds.
Using copyright laws, to free
works of certain rights.
e.g.,
GFDL, Creative Commons
47. GFDL
General Public License
(GNU-GPL) for software.
Free Documentation License
(GNU-FDL) for documentation.
In short:
attribution and viral.
48. Creative Commons
BY – attribution
SA – share alike (viral)
NC – non-commercial
ND – no derivatives
49. Consequences (1)
More legal use of works.
More works to use for
consumers.
Remove barriers
for knowledge sharing.
50. Consequences (2)
One laptop per child
(OLPC)
a.k.a. $100 laptop
Free software
Free knowledge
60. The Flat World
The works of James Surowiecki (2005)
Marshall McLuhan The Wisdom of Crowds
The works of Yochai Benkler (2006)
Manuel Castells The Wealth of Networks
Thomas Friedmann (2005) Henry Jenkins (2006)
The World Is Flat Convergence Culture
61. The Flat Web
Chris Anderson (2006) Andrew Keen (2007)
The Long Tail The Cult of the Amateur
(or the Wired article
from 2004)
Clay Shirky (2008)
Here Comes Everybody
Don Tapscott and
Anthony Williams (2006)
Wikinomics
62. Embedded
Free Culture Publishing
Stuff by Lawrence Lessig Our upcoming report
(e.g. on YouTube)
www.fleet-project.be
www.fleet-research.be
63. Comics courtesy of
Gaping Void XKCD
(Hugh McLeod) (Randall Munroe)
www.gapingvoid.com www.xkcd.com
Toothpaste For Dinner Married To The Sea
(Drew) (Drew and Nathalie Dee)
www.toothpastefordinner.com www.marriedtothesea.com