if you love something, set it free
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..in which we\'ll consider the benefits of making stuff (more) available as well as some of the issues around value, scarcity and scaleTRANSCRIPT
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hello
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"if you love something, set it free"
..in which we’ll consider the benefits of making stuff (more) available as well as some of the issues around value, scarcity and scale
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my mum
I am Mike Ellis
I have spent about ten years on the web
I am a generalist, strategist, social(web)ist
I work for a not for profit IT company called Eduserv
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we’re used to producing content in silos
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we've often produced experiences to be consumed in a linear way
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..within the confines of our "virtual walls"
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and once, we even used to say things like:“don’t link to that external site – we’ll lose a visitor”
but we don't do that any more...right...?
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we're only just starting to understand that our users are talented and fickle. they get what they want from whoever will provide it. they want more stuff via more channels
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this means users find stuff through means other than those we provide, they drop into the depths of our sites rather than via the homepage and they use our material in ways we’d never even begin to imagine
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...a lot of the time, they're beautifully chaotic
users aren’t necessarily having controlled experiences...
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and increasingly, they’re experiencing our content somewhere other thanon our site...
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% referrals from myspace
to sciencemuseum.org.uk?
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(cultural) institutions often struggle with this
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after all, authority is what makes us...us, right?
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well, maybe web2 is teaching us that authority comes from the real,from authenticity
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and not (always) from a designed, understood, moderated pathway
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once we've realised that the important thing is our content and not where it is consumed, we should find it easier to let go..
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..and instead of being protective, strive to make it easier for people to use our content anywhere
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this approach makes “mashups” possible
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http://electronicmuseum.org.uk/experiments/rss-to-image
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http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/visualizations/lost
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content service
your site
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the problem is... thereisn’t much exposed heritage content
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which is a shame, becausemuch of it is superb...
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take a look at web2.0
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web
2.0 is..
creative commons
user generated
content
radicalde-centralisationcollaboration
viral marketing and permission based activity
rich “non web-like” environment
mashups
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the social web
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I'd argue that one ofthe most important things
about web2.0 is this:
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the sociability isn’t just on the surface
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under the hood web2.0 is socialtoo, in the form of data sharing
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it's about RSS, API's, REST
(these are geeky ways of saying you can get content and data in and out of your website and systems...)
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it's about giving freedom to your content, letting it out of the confines of your website. if you do this, other people will be able to mash your stuff as well
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give it away??? what about...cash?
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in this brave new online world, we’ve had to re-appraise everything else.
now might be the time to re-appraise what we understand by “value”.
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In 2001, I sold 10,000 hard copies. And everyone was puzzled. We came from zero, from 1000, to 10,000. And then the next year we were over 100,000. [...]
I thought that this is fantastic. You give to the reader the possibility of reading your books and choosing whether to buy it or not. [...]
So, I went to BitTorrent and I got all my pirate editions… And I created a site called The Pirate Coelho.
Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist
http://torrentfreak.com/alchemist-author-pirates-own-books-080124/
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scarcity? or scale?
“losers wish for scarcity. winners leverage scale”
ian rogers, ex vp video and media applications, yahoo!
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the take-home...
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freeing data is a virtuous cycle:the more people do itthe more there isand the more it gets seen
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1. we truly is is better than me
2. development of additional channels (mobile, facebook, text only, kiosk, screen- reader) is made easy, almost trivial.
3. it isn't hard, or expensive
4. investing in this even at an early stage (< web2.0!) means you can always get at your stuff
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and once your content is out there, who knows where it might go?
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thanks for listening
twitter.com/dmje
mashedmuseum.org.uk
www.eduserv.org.uk
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thanks also to these flickr people for sharing:
hello world http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/472097903/freedom http://www.flickr.com/photos/frankloohuis/468320896/mike on beach minesilos http://www.flickr.com/photos/zoomzoom/304135268/simple http://www.flickr.com/photos/louganmanzke/2722701187corporate http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhinson/1439657540charlotte minecloth puppet http://www.flickr.com/photos/hellomokona/2907265786/airplane minechaos http://www.flickr.com/photos/penny2036/2498097929jellyfish minenumber 9 http://www.flickr.com/photos/kibbles/2902544170/d(anger) http://www.flickr.com/photos/sindesign/221297512/tower mineauthentic http://www.flickr.com/photos/josefgrunig/1732787905/babel http://www.flickr.com/photos/pulpolux/384199243seesaw http://www.flickr.com/photos/zaxl4/16950197easy http://www.flickr.com/photos/spackletoe/90811910/mash http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticrevolver/61068219/desolate http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyengleman/158208286/e=mc hair http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocularsmith/239674652question http://www.flickr.com/photos/drachmann/327122302dark tunnel http://www.flickr.com/photos/citizen_poeta/425749475/web2 logos http://www.flickr.com/photos/ryyo/249804450/crowd blur http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205/moon tree minenight fight http://www.flickr.com/photos/strocchi/295280599/gadget http://www.flickr.com/photos/lotts-family/2092624726/cash register http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=315274981&size=otruth or consequence http://www.flickr.com/photos/kxlly/349894433newton http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunnyuk/2357899880 scale http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1461810959&size=lescape http://www.flickr.com/photos/practicalowl/329076696broken tower mineblurred night minefireworks minedan hand mine