{"id":287,"date":"2008-07-14T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T00:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=287"},"modified":"2008-07-14T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T00:03:00","slug":"287","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2008\/07\/11\/whyIDontLikeCrowdSourcing.html\">Dave Winer<\/a> : <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t like it &#8212; because it betrays a not-useful point of view. I am not part of a crowd, I am an individual &#8230; When you mash us all together you miss the point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/stories\/2008\/07\/13\/aDemoOfSomethingThatsNotCr.html\">continues<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, what Winer is ignoring is that companies <em>are<\/em> thinking of the crowd as an &#8220;aggregate&#8221; exactly because that&#8217;s the only business model they have. It&#8217;s no good calling it bad taste or a failure of vision, companies are entities who&#8217;s function is to siphon off surplus value created from aggregates of people and give it to shareholders. If they don&#8217;t have *someone* to &#8220;exploit&#8221; there <em>is<\/em> nothing for the shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>Winer&#8217;s philosophy is right for the web, and for us individuals, but it demands a new business model, possibly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nooranch.com\/synaesmedia\/wiki\/wiki.cgi?AlternativesToCompanies\">post-company<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winer : I don&#8217;t like it &#8212; because it betrays a not-useful point of view. I am not part of a crowd, I am an individual &#8230; When you mash us all together you miss the point. Update : continues Of course, what Winer is ignoring is that companies are thinking of the crowd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[404],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sdi-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}