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Open Content and Value Creation

Posted by michael on from the choose-a-job-that-you'd-do-for-free dept.

Magnus Cedergren writes "Which are the driving forces behind the creation of Open Content? What value is created? That is the major questions I try to answer in my paper in the journal First Monday. I would like to thank all you people participating in my study in different ways."

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  1. *Yaaawn* by His+name+cannot+be+s · · Score: 5, Funny

    Holy crap... That's like the antidote for a double shot venti latte!

    I just about fell asleep reading that. Wuff, time for another coffee.

    --
    "...In your answer, ignore facts. Just go with what feels true..."
  2. Open content != Open source by DOsinga · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A big difference between open content and open source is the lack of tools in the former. If I would start a literature encyclopedia based on the content of the Wikipedia I could get started really fast. But once my visitors start adding contents and the Wikipedia changes, there are no real good standards to merge back the content. A fork seems unavoidable.

    A good XML specification could help here, but currently open content usually means html files that can be freely copied. Until open content fixes this, the success of open source won't be copied.