Chris Messina on BarCamps and Open Source Evangelism
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YouTube sold out for a whopping $1.65 billion to Google recently. And guess what the YouTube users got? Nothing. So, this has rubbed people like Chris Messina the wrong side. We talk to Chris about CrowdSourcing and he explains why big companies buying popular user-generated content websites may not be a great thing.
Chris Messina, aka FactoryJoe, is best known for his involvement in helping to create the BarCamp movement and Microformats. Recently he co-founded The Citizen Agency with real-life partner Tara Hunt.
Chris is a widely respected ambassador of open-source, most notably Firefox and Flock. Chris, as a volunteer for the Spread Firefox campaign, also designed the highly influential 2004 Firefox advert which appeared in the New York Times in 2004. Chris currently resides in San Francisco.
Tags: Chris Messina, CrowdSourcing, FactoryJoe, BarCamp, Tara Hunt
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November 3rd, 2006 at 3:54 am
[…] some real good stuff. It was weird hearing Chris Messina on that channel, being concerned by “crowdsourcing,” (where we provide the labor, but do it all for free or nearfree) but it all makes sense when he started talking about BarCamp India. Ironic that Chris is an advocate for open source (he worked on the Flock browser team). Interesting conversation. Filed under: blogging @ 3:54 am # […]
November 4th, 2006 at 3:11 pm
[…] Chris Messina is a tireless advocate for community and open-source, so his perspective on CrowdSourcing goes even deeper into the fundamental drivers of our capitalistic society. This interview is an interesting conversation along these lines. […]
November 5th, 2006 at 5:40 pm
Free software is better than open source. Try advocating your freedom instead of silly utilitarian nonsense.
Also firefox is exploitable.