BLOGS, WIKIS AND CREATIVE INNOVATIONJOHN QUIGGIN

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ARIN6912 Digital Research and Publishing

Everyone will be their own publisher, with the capacity to broadcast their thoughts on any topic, share their creative contributions and

talk about whatever is important in their daily lives

THE RISE OF THE INTERNET

THE PUBLISHING PARADIGM

Books exist in a tangible form the reader can have a physical experience with

Could e-books fall into the current paradigm?

BLOGS

A personal webpage in a journal format

A blog post serves to initiate conversation, held in public view, rather than as a discrete

piece of communication from author to reader

The Glamourai Healthy Tipping Point Ambit Gambit

"These days, to have one finger on the fashion pulse, you need to have the other one on your computer mouse, reading (or writing) the latest

blogs."

BryanBoy with Anna Wintour

Kelly Framel for D & G

Tavi at Dior A/W 09

WIKIS

Designed to facilitate editing and writing by as many people as possible

Collection of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks

Wikipedia

THE NEW MEDIA

Blogs and wikis have begun to establish themselves as reputable, industrious and

widespread as traditional media

WHO OWNS THE INFORMATION?

Intellectual property?

Or

Intellectual commons?

“Blogs and wikis are highly significant, but more as instances of a new mode of

communication than as a direct replacement for existing communications media.”

John Quiggin

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BLOGS AND WIKIS

www.theglamourai.com www.healthytippingpoint.com www.ambitgambit.com www.bryanboy.com http://www.thestylerookie.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Main_Page