As a followup to my WWW/community thread (one, two, three), I noticed that Tim O’Reilly posted a summary of the Web 2.0 from Foo Camp. I guess I’d score high on the “Do You Get The Web 2.0?” quiz in Esquire this month, because a lot of his memes were in my thread.
What did I hit on that Tim did as well?
- Trust your users
- Small pieces loosely joined (web as components)
- Software that gets better the more people use it
- “An attitude, not a technology”
- The right to remix: “Some rights reserved.”
There might be others, but my point is that the notion of a participant community creating content that they flow between each-other, share, and build upon is not new… but “radical trust” and “radical decentralization” are difficult stances to adopt, as you can’t “wade in” and test the waters… you have to dive in, head first, and find out that the water’s just fine.