below is my presentation for a security conference Codegate 2008 in Korea. I was an invited speaker.
check out this year's Codegate conference: http://codegate.org/eng/
Danny Choo, the master of famous http://www.dannychoo.com/ hosts a series of monthly event called "Tokyo CGM Night" with Andrew Shuttleworth (Tokyo2point0 organizer).
http://cgmnight.com/
CGM stands for Consumer Generated Media and in Japan the word CGM is much popular than the word UGM (User Generated Media) which common in the USA someway. The event attract bloggers, YouTubers, CGM service providers and just regular IT professionals in Tokyo, in the majority of who are mostly bi-lingual or foreigners. The event has been growing rapidly since Feb 2009 and the number of the attendee list reached to nearly 400 people, even while CGM Night is a private event that requires invitation or at least escorted with a previous attendee.
The mottoes of CGM Night are "No Smoking, No Nakedness, and Free from Portrait Rights Restriction". Thus attendees of the event can take as many pictures as they want and to be encouraged to upload it to own blog, Flickr, YouTube, or any other User Generated Media services as they like. Then Danny would generously post links on dannychoo.com site.
This is a very good example of Reputation Sharing Economy at work. Reputation is something that reside in people's mind but can be measured with technical aspects. Some of measurement markers are of course Page Views and Unique Users. www.dannychoo.com actually gets 20 Million page views and 2 Million Unique Users a month, as the site claims. The bloggers, photographers, or YouTubers who participated and made content about CGM Night would get some amount of traffic from links on www.dannychoo.com.
However, how to keep the traffic largely depends on quality, timeliness and point of view of the content made by participants. But there is a chance that good ones can grow their reputation with good content. And once they grew, they can start similar way as Danny is doing: to give someone a part of their reputation. Unlike money, reputation won't reduce by act of giving it. Instead, it is going to multiply.
To make these Reputation Sharing Economy grow, one foreseeable problem is Copyright issues. But this will be solved with Creative Commons license scheme. For example, when a photographer upload his/her photos of CGM Nignt to Flickr, they can choose Creative Commons license from the menu, possibly with CC-BY (means Attribution). So, someone who saw his/her photos of CGM Night and wanted to use it could easily do that just displaying the photographers name along with the photos. Thus, Creative Commons is an enabler for CGM/UGM into Reputation Sharing Economy.
Update1:
Here's a bit of addition to clarify more. The reason why Copyright would become a issue with Reputation Sharing Economy in CGM/UGM is that the handling of copyright clearance and its volume. Current Copyright law in most of countries automatically set the creator of the Creative Work (texts, graphics, movies or other form of expressions) as the Copyright Owner, even without his/her knowledge. Thus, someone who may want to use such Creative Works has to contact the Copyright Owner for permission to use, if the person lawfully use the Work.
This clearance process was fairly simple in the old media publising realm because there were publishers and representative agents to handle the process in between. But in the CGM/UGM realm this process becomes growingly complex, especially in the situation for a content creator become famous. Such content creator is Copyright Owner who could get 10s of thousands of copyright permission requests from ordinary people who just want to use his/her Creative Works in CGM/UGM domain. We can imagine that to answer every single request could overwhelm the Copyright Owner.
With Creative Commons this process can be easier because Creative Commons is the system that Copyright Owner to express copyright permission upfront with variety of usage conditions. It displays how Copyright Owner want others to use the Work. Someone who wants to use such content creator = copyright owner's Work with Creative Commons license, just simply follow the condition of use and contact to the Copyright Owner will become unnecessary. That is why Creative Commons will become an enabler of Reputation Sharing Economy through Content Sharing.
BBC has a series of documentary called "Seven Ages of Rock" It is an overview of rock music scene from 1963 to 2007. Watching this program probably makes you analytical and I suddenly had a view of the formula of hit songs.
#1 comfort of similarity to ordinary life
#2 represented realization of inner desire
#3 sympathy for your existence and inner feeling of isolation, alienation, and frustration in life
When life filled with uncertainity #2 looks attractive. This can be broken down to...
#2A miraculous glamorous life
#2B destructive thug life
Here are some examples (sorry about old references) :
#1: John Denver, Bananarama
#2A: Motley Crue
#2B: many gangsta raps
#3: Metallica, Nirvarna
Now I am wondering same formula can be used to make hit content in other type of media....
I've been digging my thought about Demand and Supply. Usually it is explained with only numbers. However, I wanted to know what makes it from the underneath.
Desire is in the core of Demand. then Supply should deliver Satisfaction. If not it fails. But there seems to be so many products or services forget it. I see there is a thought pattern issue: when a Supplier sells something, they often just provide stuff they have because that's what they have.. But what missing here is the Supplier might be ignoring the stuff is really demanded or not. And to understand Demand, they need to figure out what Desire is lying underneath.
@bopuc pointed out about identification and measurement of Desire is key. I agree. Demand side seek Supply following their Desire, then we can find markers to identify it.
Oops, it's been for 4 years from my last post, but it should be good to come back writing a bit. I've been busy then gone into deep bunker mode to find out what would be a new direction rather than sticking to security. the result was as forming an idea to start new web media on connecting fashion in Japan and social web in the international level. I've been putting the idea step by step with a few start overs, and now in the search of seed funding.
This press conference was held during BlackHat USA2005 on Jul 28 with Michael Lynn and Jeff Moss attended. All parties which involved were invited but Cisco and ISS didn't participate.
Here's MP3 audio of the press conference. 37 min.
Additinal:
Someone posted a video of BlackHat USA proceedings page ripping process by Cisco sent staff.
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/08/video_of_ciscoi.html
Here are pictures and MP3s from the Atocha Workshop.
Openning by Martin Varsavsky then Dr. Yael Danieli (Left)
20050311%20035838.mp3"
"War on Terror" panel
20050311%20044501.mp3
Interview with Kenneth Roth (Right)
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Wrap up of Creative Debate and closing remarks
20050311%20092309.mp3
Interior of Atocha Station
From The International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security last week in Madrid. Here are recordings of the open session of the Democracy, Terrorism and the Open Internet session to introduce "The Infrastructure of Democracy" (on Wiki) document and the following press conference. The document is also on previous page.
Democracy, Terrorism and the Open Internet panel MP3
20050310%20020413.mp3
Press Conference MP3
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I was attending The International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security last week in Madrid and working in the group of the Democracy, Terrorism and the Open Internet session to produce "The Infrastructure of Democracy" document. Here are recordings of our debate on various issues. Now you can listen to what was actually discussed.
Morning discussion MP3
20050309%20000432.mp3
Afternoon discussion MP3
20050309%20021002.mp3
from 4pm discussion MP3
20050309%20070023.mp3
The Infrastructure of Democracy
Strengthening the Open Internet for a Safer World
March 11, 2005
I. The Internet is a foundation of democratic society in the 21st century, because the core values of the Internet and democracy are so closely aligned.
1. The Internet is fundamentally about openness, participation, and freedom of expression for all - increasing the diversity and reach of information and ideas.
2. The Internet allows people to communicate and collaborate across borders and belief systems.
3. The Internet unites families and cultures in diaspora; it connects people, helping them to form civil societies.
4. The Internet can foster economic development by connecting people to information and markets.
5. The Internet introduces new ideas and views to those who may be isolated and prone to political violence.
6. The Internet is neither above nor below the law. The same legal principles that apply in the physical world also apply to human activities conducted over the Internet.
II. Decentralized systems - the power of many - can combat decentralized foes.
1. Terrorist networks are highly decentralized and distributed. A centralized effort by itself cannot effectively fight terrorism.
2. Terrorism is everyone's issue. The internet connects everyone. A connected citizenry is the best defense against terrorist propaganda.
3. As we saw in the aftermath of the March 11 bombing, response was spontaneous and rapid because the citizens were able to use the Internet to organize themselves.
4. As we are seeing in the distributed world of weblogs and other kinds of citizen media, truth emerges best in open conversation among people with divergent views.
III. The best response to abuses of openness is more openness.
1. Open, transparent environments are more secure and more stable than closed, opaque ones.
2. While Internet services can be interrupted, the Internet as a global system is ultimately resilient to attacks, even sophisticated and widely distributed ones.
3. The connectedness of the Internet – people talking with people – counters the divisiveness terrorists are trying to create. 4. The openness of the Internet may be exploited by terrorists, but as with democratic governments, openness minimizes the likelihood of terrorist acts and enables effective responses to terrorism.
IV. Well-meaning regulation of the Internet in established democracies could threaten the development of emerging democracies.
1. Terrorism cannot destroy the internet, but over-zealous legislation in response to terrorism could. Governments should consider mandating changes to core Internet functionality only with extraordinary caution.
2. Some government initiatives that look reasonable in fact violate the basic principles that have made the Internet a success.
3. For example, several interests have called for an end to anonymity. This would be highly unlikely to stop determined terrorists, but it would have a chilling effect on political activity and thereby reduce freedom and transparency. Limiting anonymity would have a cascading series of unintended results that would hurt freedom of expression, especially in countries seeking transition to democratic rule.
V. In conclusion we urge those gathered here in Madrid to:
1. Embrace the open Internet as a foundation of 21st Century democracy, and a critical tool in the fight against terrorism.
2. Recognizing the Internet's value as a critical communications infrastructure, invest to strengthen it against attacks and recover quickly from damage.
3. Work to spread access more evenly, aggressively addressing the Digital Divide, and to provide Internet access for all.
4. To protect free speech and association, endorse the availability of anonymous communications for all.
5. Resist attempts at international governance of the Internet: It can introduce processes that have unintended effects and violate the bottom-up democratic nature of the Net.
