A System of Loyalties and Protections
Posted by goodmind on May 19th, 2008
Social networks are largely feud-al societies, in the sense that they facilitate a good deal of communal fighting. BuzzMachine describes the eco-system which backs all this healthy debate as a feudal society of lords, vassals and fiefs;
“So Glam is a content network. But they don’t create all the content. They curate it. So we should curate more as we create less. That’s another way to say what I’ve said other ways: Do what we do best and link to the rest. Also: We need to gather more and produce less, so we also need to encourage others to produce more so we can gather it. That’s a festival of PowerPoint lines there.”
Indeed, a spirited Renaissance festival of PowerPoint lines and Web 2.0 serfdom surfdom. The point is, Glam clearly understands what it takes to succeed in a social (network) order, mostly by doing very little themselves, while “curating” or “gathering” what others produce for mutual benefit.
More importantly, instead of posturing as the sovereign king of the world wide web, Glam functions as a physical estate, or site to be populated. More than mere aggregator reminiscent of a primitive hunter/gatherer society, Glam is a centralized and highly lucrative platform for lords (advertisers) and serfs (bloggers/content creators) alike.
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