Open Social Web September 5, 2008 Happy Birthday, Bill of Rights Filed under: Open Social Web — jsmarr @ 5:41 pm Hard to believe, but the Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web is one year old today. Harder still to believe how much the social web has opened up in that year! Here’s a special Thank you to everyone that’s supported this movement, and here’s to another amazing year ahead. That said, this Bill of Rights is not a document “carved in stone” (or written on paper).

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Consider the 5,000 friend limit on Facebook; Twitter’s arbitrary suggested users list; and examples of users being ousted from various services for controversial reasons). * A web built on top of a few proprietary platforms means less diversity and ultimately smaller scale than a web built on non-proprietary protocols and standards (consider how useful email, the web, and the internet itself became once open standards for interoperability were adopted, and the power of “small pieces loosely joined“). * And finally, on an ethical and emotional level — it just doesn’t feel right.

And yet there’s an emergent consistency in these as people react to each presentation in terms of open popularity voting and critique and adapt their future presentations to that. The knowledge would all be open source, but publishing and kit-bashing would be for-profit, letting people make a living and providing a means to subsidize the free dissemination of the knowledge on-line and through outreach activity. Looking at the different Maker blogs, I could see that there was an emergent set of information standards forming ad hoc by a popularity-driven process of selection as well as limitations -chiefly in graphics as people generally can’t produce their own drawn illustrations so resort to photos and video.

E5 has written a interesting report on open green tech transfer, and its financing models: * Climate Justice as Business Case: Innovative Business Models for the Transfers of Climate-Friendly Technologies. The Open Hardware Transfer Strategy Model * Concise definition: Analogous to Open Source Software, Open Hardware is a community-based development instrument for technologies. By Hans Schuhmacher, with support from Julio Lambing et al. European Business Council for Sustainable Energy.