Estoy revisando anotaciones sobre el nuevo libro de Charles Leadbeater sobre el inteligencia colectiva de las masas. En esencia, lo que plantea es que los grandes movimientos colaborativos actuales (Wikipedia, YouTube, CraigsList, Second Life e incluso otros proyectos como el desarrollo de software libre) son consecuencia de la creatividad agregada (o “mass creativity”) de sus usuarios. Creatividad, iniciativa y participación, poderosa combinación: Google is on the verge of bidding £1bn for Youtube, a business little more than a year old. Wikipedia continues to draw more traffic than much more established media brands, employing hundreds more people. Open source programmes such as Linux insistently chip away at corporate providers of proprietary software. Immersive multi user computer games, such as Second Life, which depend on high levels of user participation and creativity are booming. Craigslist a self help approach to searching for jobs and other useful stuff is eating into the ad revenues of newspapers. Youth magazines such as Smash Hit have been overwhelmed by the rise of social networking sites such as MySpace and Bebo. What is going on? Leadbeater postula que estas nuevas formas de colaboración creativa en masas demuestra que los usuarios no quieren ser meros espectadores sino agentes, parte […]

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