Do you mean some sort of community venture capital or 'venture research'? Or are you thinking along more charitable lines, possibly open source? What do you mean by 'communal economy'? - Andrew Eglinton

Andrew, I am thinking about both. People have different passions and motivations but not always the resources. Social and monetary capital that is contributed by the community to create massive amounts of innovation and do great things to change our world. I will post a video for some background when I get home. - Jason Cronkhite

This is an interesting idea. We are talking about this too. - Robert Scoble

Excellent. Can't wait to watch the video. Glad to see Building43 is brimming with ideas. The community aspect really needs some fine tuning to keep it relevant but also to find a way of storing and filtering some of these FF discussions for future reference. Will we see new rooms being unlocked in building43? If so will there be some 'formal' space for community? - Andrew Eglinton

I plan to talk to Robert and Rob about Skyping into the Fastttrac programs Stealthmode offers in the fall and "guest" speaking about the 2010 web, after which the small business people we deal with would be more motivated to go to a web site than if I just sent them there. It this worked, perhaps a partnership with the national Kauffman Foundation Fasttrac program could be suggested, since we are already piloting something else with them. - Francine Hardaway

This thread karically popped up before I had a chance to call Robert. That's how my life rolls. Everything manifests - Francine Hardaway

Andrew: I have a private room for 2010web that could turn into something. - Robert Scoble

Thinking further about formal/informal space in web 3.0 and looking back at the old power models of the blogosphere. One of the things that I've disliked for a long time is the 'guru/devotee' structure of so-called A-list blogs. A structure that relies on the 'guru' maintaining an IMAGE of authority, often foregoing the INPUT (intellectual, experiential or otherwise) that supports authority. More importantly, this type of structure upholds a tiny elite class that strangles an entire sub stratum of knowledge, innovation and talent unable to penetrate the upper echelons for lack of room and opportunity. One of the major vectors of the new Web is going to be the intensification in toppling traditional pyramid power structures; not towards a wholly amateur (mass) base, but by extending the share of power in a parallel movement and reconfiguring the constitution of power as contribution to knowledge rather than its monopoly. This has been championed to an extent in the epistemological realm by Wikipedia, but it has yet to permeate the commercial Web and we have yet to adjust economic structures to allow for this lateral movement. The assumption that the 'community' is in some way 'lesser' or 'subservient' to its ‘owners’ will crumble (I hope) under the weight of applications and platforms that facilitate competitive contribution models, in which those making authentic contributions are rewarded (at the very least) at the same level of those who initiate, govern or fund the system. So to use Building43 as a metaphor, if the organisation is willing to set up shop on the ground floor and open all higher levels to competitive, authentic contribution from its users – with bottom-up interaction and guidance, then we could be on to something. - Andrew Eglinton

Andrew, don't suppose you could paragraph / blog that comment up for easy reading :D? Besides the fact that I heartily agree with the decentralized social power structure of 2010 web. Ok I battle through the text block, and I have to say I absolutely love where you're going with this philosophy of distributed web contributions. I've been working on a slow brewing social design concept/tool (might end up being a wave variant) that can capture distributed development efforts into complex larger products and fairly reward the contributors. - Mark Essel

Mark - Yeah, it's a bit of a mouthful. Sorry about that. I'll have a go tomorrow am, I'm on my way out now. I'll post it on my personal blog and link it here. Thanks. - Andrew Eglinton

I'll be sure to read and comment Andrew - Mark Essel

Virtual currency? very cool Jason: - Mark Essel

Cool. Would help if FF comments supported <br /> - Andrew Eglinton

For those interested here's the feed to Andrew's contributions to the London Theatre blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/LondonT... odd that the http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/author... feed is getting posts from other authors. I'll send a direct message to andrew - Mark Essel

An entrepreneur community I am part of in Austin implemented their own complimentary currency called Boot Karma which is used with in the network to help community members move their ventures forward. I could not find the video I was looking for but, here is one to look at and a link to the description of complimentary currency. Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... -- YouTube Video http://www.youtube.com/watch... & Bootstrap Community link -- http://www.bootstrapaustin.org/wiki... - Jason Cronkhite

Andrew: so eloquently said and I agree with you. I am interested in helping Building43 be meaningful and becoming a change agent for everyone to benefit and not be subservient in any regard. I think Scoble is interested in facilitating innovation and championing it by showcasing very talented people that we all can learn from. What I think is most important though is the opportunity that Building43 has the chance to drive significant innovation with massive amounts of collective intelligence and I think Robert is in a position with his influence and social graph to make a larger impact in people's lives than even he realizes or understands. So, I will contribute where I can and add value where I think can and just hope others do as well. Gotta run for now :-) - Jason Cronkhite

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