The value of openness in an attention economy

First Monday

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages

  Goldhaber, Michael ^a  

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EID: 38949164366     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v11i6.1334     Document Type: Article

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1. Published in First Monday volume 2, number (April 1997), at http://www.firstmondav.org/issues/ issue2_4/goldhaber/. Incidentally, that article is an essential background to what follows.
2. Editor's note: First Monday was published between May 1996 and December 1998 by Munksgaard International Publishers of Copenhagen. Between May 1996 and May 1997, Munksgaard charged an optional subscription fee of 100 Danish kroner, which at the time was equivalent to approximately US $15.00, Payment of the subscription fee provided to the subscriber a compact disc of a year's worth of First Monday. No fee was required to access the First Monday server and access was open and free. At an editorial meeting In Copenhagen in May 1997, Munksgaard, at the urging of First Monday's primary editors - Edward Valauskas, Esther Dyson, and Rishab Ghosh-dropped the optional subscription fee and made the journal completely open and free. In December 1998, Munsgaard sold First Monday to the editorial triumvirate of Valauskas, Dyson, and Ghosh; the server was moved from Copenhagen to Chicago and the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago. The first Chicago-based issue appeared in January 1999.
3. Michael H. Goldhaber, 2000. "Language as Public Good Under Threat," In: Anatole Anton, Milton Fisk, and Nancy Holmstrom (editors). Not for sale: In defense of public goods. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press,
4. For more on these subjects see especially my series of columns on "Attention, War and Peace" in Telepolis (2002), at http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/html/result.xhtml?url-/tp/r4/artikel/13/13150/1. html&words-Goldhaber: http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/ html/result.xhtml?url-/tp/ r4/artikel/13/13221/1.html&words-Goldhaber: and, http://www.heise.de/ tp/r4/html/result.xhtml?url-/tp/r4/ artikel/13/13298/1.html&words-Goldhaber.
5. Sandra Blakeslee, "Cells That Read Minds," New York Times (10 January 2006), Late Edition -Final, Section F, p. 1.
6. Also see the Wikipedia article on mirror neuron http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror neurons and, cited there, but not yet read by me, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Luciano Fadiga, Vittorio Gallese and Leonardo Fogassi, 1996. "Premotor cortex and the recognition of motor actions," Cognitive Brain Research, volume 3, number 2 (March), pp. 131-141.
7. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, 1980. Metaphors we live by. Chicago: University of Chicago Press;
8. George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, 1999. Philosophy in the flesh: The embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. New York: Basic Books.
9. See also, George Lakoff, 1987. Women, fire and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press;
10. Mark Johnson, 1987. The body in the mind: The bodily basis of meaning, imagination, and reason. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
11. I refer to the character in the children's folktale, of unknown origin, but certainly current when I was a child, sometime In the Pleistocene.
12. My approach differs from some widely known one's such as found In Eric S. Raymond, 1999, The cathedral & the bazaar: Musings on Linux and open source by an accidental revolutionary. Sebastapol, Calif.: O'Reilly;
13. or, Yochai Benkler, "Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and The Nature of the Firm," 112 Yale Law Journal369 (2002), unpaginated at http://www. benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.PDF.[Degrees of separation note: by accident, in looking up Professor Benkler, who was to appear at FM10, I discovered he is my second-cousin-once-removed-in-law.]
14. See Joseph Reagle's contribution to this FM10 Conference for an explanation of forking.
15. Kevin Kelly, "Scan This Bookl" New York Times Magazine (14 May 2006), pp. 43ff and http://www. nvtimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/ 14publishing. html? ex-1305259200&en-c07443e36874dbb8&el- 5088&partner=rssnvt&emc- rss.
16. Editor's note: First Monday's logs for 2005 and 2006 provide evidence on the geographic location of readers, based on a sorting of traffic to the servers by domain.