Hi JT

Personal opinion, but the “tagging and social media are going to die out” line didn’t ring true to me, and is actually a bit of a dangerous thing to say to a group of people starting to invest (and invest in a “good” thing IMHO) in this stuff. I also think that the “copyright is a major issue” position – although true from some angles – really badly needs qualification within a framework that now contains Creative Commons. Quite a lot of what Brian and I talked about both at the blogging workshop and at the Openness session was about ways in which the community can start to embrace fair ways of working; how these *really* work, how they don’t; how we ascribe “value”; and issues like scarcity vs scale. To continue with the “ooh, copyright, let’s be really scared” line as we have for the last few hundred years just won’t move anyone any further forward…

What did you think? (reply via email if you’d prefer :-))

Mike