links for 2007-11-06

• I wish I was at Chinese BloggerCon « Scobleizer
  "Next year I want to do a BloggerCon here at the same time and build a video bridge so we could talk about the same issues."
  (tags: cnbloggercon china blogging scoble)
• Meta: Sharism is not Communism, nor Socialism
  Isaac Mao on the idea of "sharism": "The less you share, the less power you have. And the more you share, the possible you get social support and become seems-virtually but truely powerful."
  (tags: isaacmao internet sharing creativecommons sharingeconomy blogs blogging newmedia)

Comments

[mahathir_fan]

I too agree that Sharism is very similar to Communism.

The capitalists are the anology of those who do not wish to share. It is the same arguments put forth to counter communism. Without a profit motive, what incentive is there for capitalists to set up new ventures? If everybody is sharing files, what incentive is there for those to make new products?

Sharism is of course not Communism but there is a link between them.

[Steve Ballinger]

Amnesty's at the Internet Governance Forum in Rio at the moment and one thing we've noticed is the lack of a civil society presence to raise issues like freedom of expression, privacy, access etc.

We're also keen to see whether Yahoo! dares show its face this year!

Nick Dearden's blogging from the event in his 'irrepressible'blog at www.amnesty.org.uk/blogs