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Erin Hamson

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - 4 views

www.wired.com/...ff_free

shared by Erin Hamson on 25 Sep 10 - Cached
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  • zero-cost distribution has turned sharing into an industry
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 27 Sep 10
       
      This article is long but well worth skimming. I used a quote from it in one of my latest blogposts, "Free Entertainment?" at bricolorful.wordpress.com
  • Invent something people use and throw away.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Eliminates scarcity
  • By giving away the razors, which were useless by themselves, he was creating demand for disposable blades.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Supply and demand
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  • The fastest-growing parts of the gaming industry are ad-supported casual games online and free-to-try massively multiplayer online games
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Still need a way to make money
  • The first is the extension of King Gillette's cross-subsidy to more and more industries.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      That is, giving somethings to make you buy others
  • The second trend is simply that anything that touches digital networks quickly feels the effect of falling costs.
  • And that meant software of broader appeal, which brought in more users, who in turn found even more uses for computers.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Cheaper goods brings in more people allowing the standard of living to rise for all.
  • FREE CHANGES EVERYTHING
    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10
       
      Wow, this is awesome.  Imagine the world of free electricity.  It makes me wonder what our age of free digital will bring.
    • Kristi Koerner
      Kristi Koerner on 28 Sep 10
       
      I actually agree that some things, maybe even more things, should be free. But not as a marketing ploy. And this system seems to go against our capitalist ideals of competition.
  • The most common of the economies built around free is the three-party system. Here a third party pays to participate in a market created by a free exchange between the first two parties.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Where the money comes in.
  • There are dozens of ways that media companies make money around free content, from selling information about consumers to brand licensing, "value-added" subscriptions, and direct ecommerce
  • subscription model of media and is one of the most common Web business models.
  • Isn't it just the free sample model found everywhere from perfume counters to street corners?
  • the manufacturer gives away only a tiny quantity
  • A typical online site follows the 1 Percent Rule — 1 percent of users support all the rest.
  • Yahoo's pay-per-pageview banners, Google's pay-per-click text ads, Amazon's pay-per-transaction "affiliate ads," and site sponsorships were just the start.
  • Gideon Burton on 25 Sep 10
     
    A seminal post that became the basis of Anderson's 2009 book, FREE (Hyperion) 
Katherine Chipman

California (Geography) - 1 views

quod.lib.umich.edu/...text-idx

encyclopedia

shared by Katherine Chipman on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Katherine Chipman on 22 Sep 10
     
    Encyclopedia entry on "California". The entry on America said that more specific information was given under the different regions. I decided to look up California, since that was one of the regions the entry listed. This is quite an entertainging description of California and it makes me wonder what their sources were.
Andrew DeWitt

Social Media for Branding - 0 views

www.slideshare.net/...social-media-for-branding

social media facebook presentation blog

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10
     
    Great presentation on how to make your mark in the digital world
  • Andrew DeWitt on 21 Sep 10
     
    Here is the comment I left on the SlideShare website: This is super important stuff, thank you for sharing. In our digital age, a person's ability to market themselves on the web is a form of social capital. The more people follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere, the greater influence we can have. It makes me think about what happens in the book, 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card. In the story, Peter and Valentine publish a lot of political commentary under aliases which eventually have a huge impact on world politics. Our future world may be run by those who can best market themselves and let their voice be heard.
Shuan Pai

Royal Society of London - 2 views

www.slideshare.net/...natural-knowledge-presentation

royal society london improvement natural knowledge presentation slideshare

shared by Shuan Pai on 23 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Shuan Pai on 23 Sep 10
     
    This presentation from Slideshare follows closely with what our class is discussing presently. Includes Open Content, Web 2.0, Social Networking, etc.
Erin Hamson

Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert - Collaborative Translation Project - Map of the s... - 1 views

quod.lib.umich.edu/...tree.html

open science

shared by Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 23 Sep 10
       
      This chart should look more like a web, showing the connections between the various areas. It is similar to getting an education, you can not get a complete education in one area, without dabbling in other areas. For example, the connections between theology, and religious history.
    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 25 Sep 10
       
      Sometimes before you can understand something you have to quantify it. These early natural philosophers were just organizing what they had learned so they could better understand it. How different is it from us today, trying to map the human genome?
Andrew DeWitt

Best Books Ever - 2 views

www.goodreads.com/...1.Best_Books_Ever

books list best

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 23 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 23 Sep 10
       
      Wow, "The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ" came up #5, three places above "The Holy Bible"
    • Brian Earley
      Brian Earley on 28 Sep 10
       
      I'd like to hear what Prof. Burton would say about this list.  I don't know if Twilight is really a literary masterpiece worthy of #3.
  • Andrew DeWitt on 23 Sep 10
     
    Goodreads website list of best books ever.
Jeffrey Whitlock

BYU - Marriott School - Economic Self-Reliance - What is Microfranchising? - 0 views

marriottschool.byu.edu/...about

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    • Jeffrey Whitlock
      Jeffrey Whitlock on 05 Oct 10
       
      We are blessed to be at a school that is heavily involved in social entrepreneurship. BYU, in many ways, is one of the leading schools of thought in the microfinance realm. Consider this new innovative model which was largely developed at BYU: microfranchising
James Wilcox

Smith: Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 1 | Library of Economics and Liberty - 2 views

www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN12.html#B.IV, Introduction

digiciv economy

shared by James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Among the Tartars, as among all other nations of shepherds, who are generally ignorant of the use of money, cattle are the instruments of commerce and the measures of value
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      That so interesting that cattle became the measure of money and wealth.  It seems that for something to be money it has to be able to come in large quantities, not have much difference between one to another, and carry a consistent value.
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      This notion of a Gold or currency base stands so consistent that it is hard for us today to break away and have a purely digital or credit economy.  But ever so slowly we are getting there.
  • When those countries became commercial, the merchants found this prohibition, upon many occasions, extremely inconvenient. They could frequently buy more advantageously with gold and silver than with any other commodity the foreign goods which they wanted, either to import into their own, or to carry to some other foreign country. They remonstrated, therefore, against this prohibition as hurtful to trade.
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      This principle of protectionism holds true today and is still argued about by growing economies.  Not so commonly with gold but with all different types of key commodities.
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  • They represented, secondly, that this prohibition could not hinder the exportation of gold and silver, which, on account of the smallness of their bulk in proportion to their value, could easily be smuggled abroad.*9 That this exportation could only be prevented by a proper attention to, what they called, the balance of trade
    • James Wilcox
      James Wilcox on 12 Oct 10
       
      I have heard this same argument for illegal drugs.  I have heard people say we should legalize it so that it can be tracked and limited in a legal manner.
  • hat wealth consists in money, or and silver, is a popular notion which naturally arises from the double function of money, as the instrument of commerce and as the measure of value. In consequence of its being the instrument of commerce, when we have money we can more readily obtain whatever else we have occasion for than by means of any other commodity. The great affair, we always find, is to get money. When that is obtained, there is no difficulty in making any subsequent purchase. In consequence of its being the measure of value, we estimate that of all other commodities by the quantity of money which they will exchange for. We say of a rich man that he is worth a great deal, and of a poor man that he is worth very little money. A frugal man, or a man eager to be rich, is said to love money; and a careless, a generous, or a profuse man, is said to be indifferent about it. To grow rich is to get money; and wealth and money, in short, are, in common language, considered as in every respect synonymous.
Rhett Ferrin

Wired 12.10: The Long Tail - 0 views

www.wired.com/...tail.html

shared by Rhett Ferrin on 28 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 28 Sep 10
       
      Rhapsody is awesome, but you should look into grooveshark.com. It follows the 'freemium' model discussed in class and has advertisements but I would like to hear what other people's experience is with it or any insights to how they make money.
  • Imagine if prices declined the further you went down the Tail, with popularity (the market) effectively dictating pricing. All it would take is for the labels to lower the wholesale price for the vast majority of their content not in heavy rotation; even a two- or three-tiered pricing structure could work wonders. And because so much of that content is not available in record stores, the risk of channel conflict is greatly diminished. The lesson: Pull consumers down the tail with lower prices.
Megan Stern

American Thinker: The Disappearing Middle Class - 0 views

www.americanthinker.com/...disappearing_middle_class.html

Communism Socialism digiciv Marx middle class Tea Party conservative

shared by Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • The government is helping out, "redistributing" money to the bottom. "The Rich" can use their money and influence to get in. The middle class gets no special consideration or privilege. Because they do work hard, they get to work harder -- and the Ruling Class calls this "justice."
    • Megan Stern
      Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
       
      So. True.
  • And this is what the Tea Party is really mad about.
  • And the balance between the lower class and their upper-class leaders is upset by the injection of the middle class and its struggles to carve out its niche.
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  • His Communist Manifesto is nothing more than a rant about the evils of this group and how they have inflicted harm and damage to everyone around them through colonialism and ingenuity.
  • Marx and Engels envisioned a return to the simpler time, where a vast lower class was ruled by its betters. Not surprisingly, they saw themselves as leading the underlings to the new paradise.
  • their opinions are tainted by "greed" (the single biggest sin of the bourgeoisie).
  • The byproduct of this Socialization is the shrinking of the middle class. When you punish people for working hard, those people will stop working so hard.
  • se bailouts are transfers of wealth -- not from the rich to the poor, but from the working middle class to both the upper and lower classes.
  • True: all the
  • Megan Stern on 05 Oct 10
     
    Concisely presents the consensual argument most conservatives adopt against Marx's principles in our day.
Gideon Burton

They Call It Hacktivism - 0 views

www.gis.net/hacktivism.html

hactivism cyberactivism

shared by Gideon Burton on 12 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • What are the limits of political protest in cyberspace, where the boundaries between public and private space are murky? How far can activists go without infringing on the rights of the people against whom they are protesting? As international reliance on computer technology increases, can anyone with a little technical know-how declare their own war?
  • 'In cyberspace, you don't have clear public byways intersecting private spaces, so there is no place to camp out and play your First Amendment card. If you try to deny service to someone else, by whatever means you use, you could be in pretty big trouble.'' The FBI spokesperson said that the use of Floodnet could constitute a federal crime: It is illegal to intentionally block access to an Internet server. But the members of the collective argue that they are simply gathering at the gateway, not chaining themselves to the door.
  • Gideon Burton on 12 Oct 10
     
    The onset of cyberactivism / hactivism in 1999 raises important questions.
Katherine Chipman

The Engines - The Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum - 0 views

www.computerhistory.org/...engines

babbage

shared by Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10 - Cached
  • Difference engines are strictly calculators. They crunch numbers the only way they know how - by repeated addition according to the method of finite differences. They cannot be used for general arithmetical calculation. The Analytical Engine is much more than a calculator and marks the progression from the mechanized arithmetic of calculation to fully-fledged general-purpose computation.
  • Physical Legacy Aside from a few partially complete mechanical assemblies and test models of small working sections, none of Babbage's designs was physically realized in its entirety in his lifetime. The major assembly he did complete was one-seventh of Difference Engine No. 1, a demonstration piece consisting of about 2,000 parts assembled in 1832. This works impeccably to this day and is the first successful automatic calculating device to embody mathematical rule in mechanism. A small experimental piece of the Analytical Engine was under construction at the time of Babbage's death in 1871. Many of the small experimental assemblies survived, as does a comprehensive archive of his drawings and notebooks. The designs for Babbage's vast mechanical computing engines rank as one of the startling intellectual achievements of the 19th century. It is only in recent decades that his work has been studied in detail and that the extent of what he accomplished becomes increasingly evident.
  • Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10
     
    Great explanation of the difference between difference engines and analytical engines.
Katherine Chipman

Inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard - 0 views

www.ideafinder.com/...jacquard.htm

jacquard

shared by Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Jacquard's loom mechanism is controlled by recorded patterns of holes in a string of cards, and allows, what is now known as, the Jacquard weaving of intricate patterns.
  • Katherine Chipman on 14 Oct 10
     
    This explains a little more about Jacquard's loom and its significance.
Andrew DeWitt

O, That I Were an Angel! - 4 views

www.othatiwereanangel.net

mormon lds angel mission missionary work blogging gospel

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 21 Oct 10
     
    Prof Burton's blog about online missionary work.
  • Erin Hamson on 22 Oct 10
     
    The ides of a Mormon Mingle sounds interesting, what does everyone else think?
  • Megan Stern on 24 Oct 10
     
    Our class should organize a Mormon Mingle outside of regular class time. Maybe we can create a Doodle on which class members post their available times to meet.
Madeline Rupard

"All the trees of the field shall clap their hands": My new photography blog/ visual essay - 3 views

treesclaptheirhands.tumblr.com

digiciv blog art photography tumblr visual truth mormon communication

shared by Madeline Rupard on 25 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Madeline Rupard on 25 Oct 10
     
    A visual essay of some of my own photography that I feel/hope conveys spiritual truth AND artistic truth. See my blog post at http://tamesequels.blogspot.com for my discussion about these two kinds of truths. All of these pieces are taken with a low resolution camera phone to try and convey that artistic beauty can be found in this world with the humblest means and mediums. This is one of my new art projects. I have always had an interest in photography, so this has been a good chance for me to experiment. I will try to post a photo on this site every day.
  • Mike Lemon on 25 Oct 10
     
    I like what you are doing, especially the wires photograph. I believe it ties in nicely to the sublime we talked about during Romanticism, that there is a glimpse of God in nature.
Katherine Chipman

The Story of the Triangle Fire: Part 3 - 0 views

www.ilr.cornell.edu/...narrative3.html

industrial revolution

shared by Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Many of the Triangle factory workers were women, some as young as 15 years old. They were, for the most part, recent Italian and European Jewish immigrants who had come to the United States with their families to seek a better life. Instead, they faced lives of grinding poverty and horrifying working conditions.
  • Katherine Chipman on 05 Oct 10
     
    It is so sad to see that the freedom that people come to America hoping to find sometimes instead turns out to be worse than what they may have left behind.
Jeffrey Chen

How important is Charles Darwin today? - 0 views

www.independent.co.uk/...-his-legacy-today-1216258.html

darwin evolution modern day

shared by Jeffrey Chen on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Chen on 19 Oct 10
     
    A great article about darwinism and it's principles today!!!
Jeffrey Chen

Genetic engineering of banana - 0 views

www.gmo-compass.org/...ng_against_fungal_disease.html

shared by Jeffrey Chen on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Jeffrey Chen on 19 Oct 10
     
    Look at what we can do. if we can do it, so can God
Shaun Frenza

Communist Manifesto (Chapter 1) - 1 views

www.marxists.org/...ch01.htm

shared by Shaun Frenza on 04 Oct 10 - Cached
  • holy alliance to exorcise
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Religious diction
  • All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Man is responsible for technology which is responsible for a fast paced world, which they don't like
  • It compels all nations, on pain of extinction,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Japan
    • Shaun Frenza
      Shaun Frenza on 05 Oct 10
       
      Seems a little singular - is there a specific reason why you only say "Japan"
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  • The bourgeoisie has subjected the country to the rule of the towns.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Capitalism has taken over the world, and those that were slow to buy into the idealology are being left in the dust, and dependant on others, which they don't like.
  • Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Communists retaliate by not producing enough goods.
  • He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Paints these people as the suffers, clearly appealing to them to call for "equality"
  • Not only are they slaves of the bourgeois class, and of the bourgeois State; they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      In Communism all become slaves of the state and the state leaders, how is that better?
    • Shaun Frenza
      Shaun Frenza on 05 Oct 10
       
      Or they become the machine - They are not the slave, they are the mechanizm together... at least that is what they tell themselves.
  • All are instruments of labour, more or less expensive to use, according to their age and sex.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Conflicts with the MIT lesson, except for those that have to work. (in regard to females working) again an appeal to the working class people, who are the masses to revolt. This works less well in America because of the American dream and the possibility for change fostered by it.
  • At this stage, the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Reminiscent of George Orwell's 1984, they hope lies in the masses of uncontrolled people
  • Thereupon, the workers begin to form combinations (Trades’ Unions) against the bourgeois; they club together in order to keep up the rate of wages; they found permanent associations in order to make provision beforehand for these occasional revolts. Here and there, the contest breaks out into riots.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      The working class fights back
  • so now a portion of the bourgeoisie goes over to the proletariat,
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      they aren't alone in their cause
  • The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family relations;
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      The shear fact of having money and therefore time to spend with children brings these differences.
  • The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority.
  • Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 04 Oct 10
       
      Doesn't believe capitalism can survive.
    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 05 Oct 10
       
      Wait, all these sound like good things. Is he saying its bad to have Toyotas? Is it bad to have bannanas in December?
  • rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.
    • Rhett Ferrin
      Rhett Ferrin on 05 Oct 10
       
      Can someone help me out here? Is he being sarcastic? He says capitalizm is bad then says that the bourgeoisie 'rescued' people from the 'idiocy of rural life' Thomas Jefferson thought the rural life was the ideal and to be sought after. I can't tell if Marx is for or against it.
  • By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employers of wage labour
  • By proletariat, the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live.
  • immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilisation
    • Shaun Frenza
      Shaun Frenza on 05 Oct 10
       
      Notice how we are in the same situation now as were were then - the facilitation of communication with the internet and how it shapes the world to become more homogenous.
Katherine Chipman

Welcome to FamilySearch - 0 views

new.familysearch.org/...welcome

lds technology

shared by Katherine Chipman on 21 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Katherine Chipman on 21 Oct 10
     
    New.FamilySearch.org helps members of the church around the world organize and find information about their ancestors and ensure that their temple work is done. This is an example of what Elder Ballard said. He said, "The Lord over the centuries has had a hand in inspiring people to invent tools that facilitate the spreading of the gospel. The Church has adopted and embraced those tools, including print, broadcast media, and now the Internet."
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