IP, the Information Age and YouTube

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Wesley Fryer[Edit][Delete]: IP, the Information Age and YouTube, Moving at the Speed of Creativity [Edit][Delete] November 15, 2006
This gets it exactly right: "We live in an era where people can publish at will. Relevance is and will increasingly be a function of digital accessibility. You want to be relevant? Give away your ideas. Want to become irrelevant? Create a walled garden that keeps out more people than it lets in. You'll be sure to limit your audience, and therefore reduce your relevance and potential impact on the world. More...