12.29.07

Technology as an aid to the creation of collaborative value

Posted in exchanges, commonstradingfloor at 6:16 am by kevindjones

“It is risky to use concepts like commons and non-commodified relations to describe a superior
form of economic organization for early-21st century America. It runs into the teeth of the dominant
analytic paradigm, which relies on neoclassical economics to press for the strengthening and extension
of exclusive property rights–the antithesis of a commons—in all aspects of economic life. Yet, the
interest in these phenomena is driven by empirical facts that are impossible to disregard, and risky in
their own right to ignore.” from a Stanford Cyberlaw research report on collaborative economics by Mark Cooper (to get the report you have to scroll down through his blog)

Soft things like the increasing value of collaboration are getting easier to measure because of fundamental principles by which digital information now has to be shared and processed. The technological aspect of the new social value creation is a key element, and will guide the design and prospects for success of any social stock exchange that arises.  Cooperation is now a new means of production; there is a lot of interesting thinking going on about how the new medium changes the way we work and makes sharing fundamentally more valuable because digital goods are not scarce and actually increase in value as they are shared.

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12.26.07

Gift Hub touches social exchange

Posted in Uncategorized, attentioneconomy, commonstradingfloor at 11:41 pm by kevindjones

Phil Cubeta’s gift hub blog has touched on the underlying thread I’ve been thinking about; user ownership of what is produced online, and how that value can be exchanged.

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12.15.07

Shift space, commons as trading floor

Posted in Uncategorized, commonstradingfloor, commons at 5:12 am by kevindjones

Shift space is about creating a new kind of online space that people would own, an abstraction layer of digital real estate not subject to vendor intrusion, which is its own kind of value, and that value transforms the creations built on this new kind of real estate, if they can execute, if if lots of ifs, but it’s an interesting test of the market, moving out from technology to free space, a commons, the kind of place you can trade social value.

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