Week 6 Blog Post

Another week of only one blog post (Yay, right?)

Today in class we talked about the Open Source Movement and watched Howard Rheingold's TED talk about Collaboration and Cooperation. Re-watch the video, found here: 

Answer these questions based on the video/lecture/reading from Chapter 8 in The Social Factor:

• What does Rheingold say about cooperation and collaboration?  
• How does it relate to the open-source movement as we discussed in class today?

Then, answer these questions with your own opinions: 

• What do you think about the open-source movement? 
• What are the odds of its success? 
• Do you think people will move towards it or will proprietary software companies always have bank on software development and distribution? 
• Will you buy into it? (Haha, that was a little punny...)

Make sure you link to Rheingold's Ted Talk in your post. You can embed it from YouTube as I've done here simply by clicking the "director's cut plate" icon on the Dashboard and typing in: "Howard Rheingold Ted Talk." The first video that comes up in the search results is the one! Or you can link to his talk on the Ted Website by using this link: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/howard_rheingold_on_collaboration.html

This is a Director's Cut Plate. Or that's what I call it. And that's what you should look for to post a Video. K?

Remember - Your posts should be up by 5PM Thursday (that's tomorrow), but remember I probably won't check until sometime Friday. Still... get it up there yo'!