Infrastructure of Sharing in the Commons
Teemu Arina,
FLOSSE Posse,
Jun 28, 2005
Everyone is talking about things like blogs, Flickr, Wikipedia and the like, notes the author. "What makes all of this possible is the emergence of an infrastructure for sharing in the commons." What this boils down to is a combination of several key elements: the emergence of open source, open standards, and especially XML, "online tribes" (such as hackers) that take sharing as a core virtue, political movements that advocate the same, peer-to-peer distribution of resources, and business models that make them feasible. "The web is self-organizing and forming clusters of functionality which exceed the boundaries of a single web portal."
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