trading: you gotta post up to pull down
File sharing can seem such an isolated activity. An individual seeks out content and acquires it. There may be communication with other members of this online community or there may not be. Archive.org is exemplary of this. DigitalBicycle is striving for connection beyond this and we are at the point where we are looking for methods to establish a more firm connection between organizations that can be forged primarily through on line relationships. The thought today is to recall the importance of trading, and in particular bartering, as a social bond.
Trading implies a dialogue, and I think that when it comes to sharing files online - this might be just the sort of dialogue that can generate the roots of a sustainable community. Picture some kind of bulletin board. One side for what is offered, and one side for what is sought.
What is offered can be broken down by genre or organization or by region - but preferably not by individual title. On this bulletin board only genere's, organizations or regions are available as links - with a small area for festured content. The main subject heading link will lead to a page where there is more indepth descriptions of work - and from here you can see a 2 minute vlog and download, sift and search.
What is sought is somewhat more tricky to define. On the one hand, it can be a call from media centers to help to fill out their spectrum of content. To fill in the missing gaps. Additionally, this sort of posting can be a call to arms for revolutionary collaboration. In this case we are not trading completed programs but finshing off our square of the electronic crazy quilt.
The closer the ratio of material uploaded/downloaded is to 1 for a participating center, the more balanced their involvement, the more invested they are in sustaining themselves within the project. They will want more clearly a presence for themselves on the DB site.
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Trading implies a dialogue, and I think that when it comes to sharing files online - this might be just the sort of dialogue that can generate the roots of a sustainable community. Picture some kind of bulletin board. One side for what is offered, and one side for what is sought.
What is offered can be broken down by genre or organization or by region - but preferably not by individual title. On this bulletin board only genere's, organizations or regions are available as links - with a small area for festured content. The main subject heading link will lead to a page where there is more indepth descriptions of work - and from here you can see a 2 minute vlog and download, sift and search.
What is sought is somewhat more tricky to define. On the one hand, it can be a call from media centers to help to fill out their spectrum of content. To fill in the missing gaps. Additionally, this sort of posting can be a call to arms for revolutionary collaboration. In this case we are not trading completed programs but finshing off our square of the electronic crazy quilt.
The closer the ratio of material uploaded/downloaded is to 1 for a participating center, the more balanced their involvement, the more invested they are in sustaining themselves within the project. They will want more clearly a presence for themselves on the DB site.
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