Response to sharecropping..
April 17, 2008
The blog about sharecropping that Phaedrus refers to had me confused a bit, and then I read some comments–barbarantz and dancingnancys, and I decided just to post what I think I understand.
We post on things like Wordpress, Twitter, and MySpace, etc., etc., and we do do it for free—don’t we—but we don’t make any money and Wordpress, Twitter, and MySpace are. I don’t know what or if Wordpress, Twitter, or Myspace spends on the land they own. It may be free for them, and they may be making money with the advertisements and everything else. If I can figure out how to own my own land, then I guess I would give it a try one. Why don’t we just all get together and have a space for this class–and maybe we could make money.
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April 17th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
It’s NOT about money. Well, not completely, anyway. It’s about giving control, even ownership in some cases, of our content to a third party. To any third party. If the content we produce has any meaning, any value (however that is measured – and it’s not just financial), then how can we justify giving it to anyone? Especially when the tools that are used to publish, manage, and present the content are so trivially available to anyone who wants them?
It’s not about money. It’s about control. It’s about ownership.