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  • Free Ride: Dig­i­tal Par­a­sites and the Fight for the Busi­ness of Cul­ture | Brain Pickings

    “For my part, I started Brain Pick­ings more than six years ago as what’s com­monly referred to as a “pas­sion project” (though I don’t like the fleet­ing non­com­mit­tal rela­tion­ship this phras­ing sug­gests) and didn’t have a busi­ness model — but I did have a crystal-​​clear edi­to­r­ial model, which remains the same today: get peo­ple inter­ested in mean­ing­ful cross-​​disciplinary things they didn’t yet know they were inter­ested in, and in the process empower their net­worked knowl­edge and com­bi­na­to­r­ial cre­ativ­ity; break out of the fil­ter bub­ble, if you will, though con­ceived long before we had the very vocab­u­lary to artic­u­late it. So when an aggre­ga­tor like the Huff­in­g­ton Post, a business-​​model wolf wear­ing an editorial-​​authenticity sheep’s skin, takes my (ad-​​free) con­tent and regur­gi­tates it on its (ad-​​plastered) site, it lives up to the term “par­a­site” at the heart of Levine’s argu­ment, derived from the Greek par­a­sitos and used to describe “some­one who ate at some­one else’s table with­out pro­vid­ing any­thing in return.””

    pub­lish­ing dis­in­ter­me­di­a­tion rein­ter­me­di­a­tion intellectual-​​property cre­ativ­ity col­lab­o­ra­tion network-​​culture

Items of some interest…

These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

Items of some interest…

These are my recent Pin​board​.in links: