Just had a guy call yesterday b/c I'm apparently to go-to person now for people who want ot make money fast on the Internets. Nice. Except they want a "business partner" -- i.e., work on spec. thanks, but no thanks. That kind of crap is why I'm leaving: I want to be treated like a high-priced whore, not a volunteer, damn it!
He has a Tupperware 2.0 idea for healthy lifestyle, using the Intertubes (tm) as a vehicle to build hype and connect a lot more people cheaply. Instead of individuals interacting with Web and podcast, it'd be groups of people who get together for events. (Kinda like Move on).
So, he's telling me all this and I say, "oh, Tupperware Model, it's the Tupperware model." Frick, he thought I was genius for that.
And damn it, Chuck, I wrote about this already when I said: everyone thinks it's "free" but you're paying for it. Sort of like men "pay for it" under the old gender rules where you had to take someone out for dinner and a movie to get laid. The paying for it, though, is just hidden from us and goes under the banner of "choice" -- I "choose to give up my personal information (or even my imagination in my lies) in exchange for this experience." (Remember: social scientists can crunch the lies you plug into a Web form and get information about social behavior out of that too. And it's valuable.)
At 02:56 AM 2/14/2007, Chuck wrote:
>This analysis makes some obvious points, but it is mind-blowing in how
>they put it all together. It's too bad they left out iTunes, which is
>Apple's evil contribution to the enclosure of the Internet commons.
>
>InfoEnclosure 2.0
>http://www.metamute.org/en/InfoEnclosure-2.0
>
>By Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick
>
>The hype surrounding Web 2.0's ability to democratise content production
>obscures its centralisation of ownership and the means of sharing.
>Dmytri Kleiner & Brian Wyrick expose Web 2.0 as a venture capitalist's
>paradise where investors pocket the value produced by unpaid users,
>ride on the technical innovations of the free software movement and kill
>off the decentralising potential of peer-to-peer production
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