Hi Bernard,<br><br>Not sure what is business school about communal validation, wish they were indeed talking about such things there.<br><br>But more seriously: any mode of production/governance/distribution has to take care of 3 processes if it is to socially reproduce itself: 1) the cumulation process (which is now distributed in p2p); 2) winnowing,
i.e. the selection for quality process (which happens through communal validation, i.e. is distributed as much as the production is); 3) anti-hijacking processes (procedures against private appropriation, the tragedy of the commons, etc...)
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bernard Roddy</b> <<a href="mailto:bproddy@yahoo.com">bproddy@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>For what it's worth, this post from Joshua Levy is encouraging. I follow efforts by death row inmates on Texas Death row, and the MySpace and penpal journalism phenomenon holds a powerful potential for some serious reflection on an issue that corporate media has a strangle-hold over. Of course we'll take the "professional" journalist, but only when they know what they're talking about. (To say there's no call to replace traditional media is, perhaps, minimizing a problem, of course.) By contrast, I was disappointed by the discussion raised by Michel Bauwens and Robert Labossiere. Bauwens says something about "the key" to successful projects, making reference to "community validation" and "quality," and answering Labossiere's call for ideas on "talent" and "agents." This just sounds like business school to me.
</div> <div> </div> <div>Bernie<br><br><b><i><a href="mailto:idc-request@mailman.thing.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><br></a></i></b></div></blockquote></div>