Comments on: Surrender Dorothy http://www.humorlessbitch.com/2009/05/surrender-dorothy.html/ just another wordpress weblog? yeah, right. sure. fine. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: zo http://www.humorlessbitch.com/2009/05/surrender-dorothy.html/#comment-41 zo Thu, 28 May 2009 06:19:54 +0000 http://www.humorlessbitch.com/?p=2044#comment-41 Nick Carr, fucking fascinating: "MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the many and the concentration of the economic rewards into the hands of the few. It's a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in self-expression or socializing ... Nick Carr, fucking fascinating: “MySpace, Facebook, and many other businesses have realized that they can give away the tools of production but maintain ownership over the resulting products. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the many and the concentration of the economic rewards into the hands of the few. It’s a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in self-expression or socializing …

]]> By: Ian Delaney http://www.humorlessbitch.com/2009/05/surrender-dorothy.html/#comment-40 Ian Delaney Wed, 27 May 2009 23:03:27 +0000 http://www.humorlessbitch.com/?p=2044#comment-40 Many thanks for your kind comments. Once a marxist, always a marxist - at the bottom of your heart. I came across the digital sharecropper thing through Nick Carr's blog (http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/sharecropping_t.php) but delighted to be introduced to Alan Herrel's work. And yours. Hello! Many thanks for your kind comments.

Once a marxist, always a marxist – at the bottom of your heart.

I came across the digital sharecropper thing through Nick Carr’s blog (http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/sharecropping_t.php) but delighted to be introduced to Alan Herrel’s work.

And yours. Hello!

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