Comments on: Media 2.0 Workgroup Announces Best Practices http://www.briansolis.com/2009/02/media-20-workgroup-announces-best/ Defining the convergence of media and influence Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Prokofy http://www.briansolis.com/2009/02/media-20-workgroup-announces-best/comment-page-1/#comment-2712 Prokofy Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:02:00 +0000 http://70.32.83.183/2009/02/28/media-20-workgroup-announces-best-practices/#comment-2712 Yet another session where no users are presented, and without any meaningful method to even poll or get users represented, so it's the monarchs -- the geek devs or the corporate funders -- who are deciding..."user generated governance".<br/><br/>You cannot have UGC when you have no users present in the deliberations of what constitutes "ethics" and "best practices".<br/><br/>Yes, Mark Zuckerberg got it very wrong, and his current democracy exercise is still a fraud because *he* is packing a "users' council," *he* and his staff frame all the documents, a ridiculously short timeframe is imposed and so on. If you have UGC, users really have to really do it, not you posing in the users' interests.<br/><br/>There needs to be a new kind of paradigm of socialware that consciously codes in user participation at the outset and doesn't reward coders for insolence and insularity and exclusion and even ridicule of users.<br/><br/>http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2009/02/socialware-the-next-stage-of-computing-and-communications-or-here-comes-everybody-except-clay-shirky.html Yet another session where no users are presented, and without any meaningful method to even poll or get users represented, so it’s the monarchs — the geek devs or the corporate funders — who are deciding…”user generated governance”.

You cannot have UGC when you have no users present in the deliberations of what constitutes “ethics” and “best practices”.

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg got it very wrong, and his current democracy exercise is still a fraud because *he* is packing a “users’ council,” *he* and his staff frame all the documents, a ridiculously short timeframe is imposed and so on. If you have UGC, users really have to really do it, not you posing in the users’ interests.

There needs to be a new kind of paradigm of socialware that consciously codes in user participation at the outset and doesn’t reward coders for insolence and insularity and exclusion and even ridicule of users.

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2009/02/socialware-the-next-stage-of-computing-and-communications-or-here-comes-everybody-except-clay-shirky.html

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