August 2006 Archive

Quick notes on some broad trends in interweb communications:

1. Personal, individual - honest, direct, expressive.
2. Discourse not propaganda.
3. Granular, small, lightweight, changeable, immediate.
4. Networked, dispersed, in multiple places at the same time.
5. Scaleable, iterative, repeatable.
6. Exploratory, curiosity-driven.

MTV sat up and took note to the Web2.0 / social engineering notes, and have opened up their very own intellectual property farm: MTVflux whereby users can upload content for it to be ripped off by the multi-national media giant. …[more]