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Ebooks are one of the best ways to make money on the Internet right now. These days it seems everyone has their own ebook but it's true, everyone has at least one ebook inside ...

Q. What is jumping the shark? A . It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That insta...

[T]here is no demand for messages. The customer doesn’t want to hear from your business, thank you very much. The message that gets broadcast to you, me, and the rest o...

Jump back to the town commons for a minute. Imagine a vibrant social jumble filling the square, drawing everyone in with its buzz, diversity and wonder. There is the bazaar w...

A world where everybody is doing business with everybody else appears to be quite viable, if not always hugely inspired. --Derrick de Kerckhove, The Skin ...

It takes a village to make a mall. Kevin Kelly The Internet changes the dynamics of business by relocating the marketplace squarely back in the middle of ...

The unexpected is the best source for inspiration. Peter Drucker Despite the commercial veneer and increasing degree of regulation it’s...

People make the Internet. People make community. People make commonspace. No question. This being said, the tools that people use to construct commonspace matter– a lo...

Success is nothing but being a quote. --Andy Partridge, XTC The Internet allows anyone to become a communicator of unprecedented power...

It is truly written: the best hacks start out as personal solutions to the author’s everyday problems, and turn out to be typical for others. Eric Raymo...

These business models presume generosity - or at least some basic drive to share. Why not? Some anthropologists and evolutionary psychologists argue that humans are hardwired...

You don't invent the future, you unleash it by leveraging the global community mind. John Seely Brown, Xerox PARC Our heroes change along...

In both internetworked markets and among intranetworked workers, people are speaking to each other in powerful new ways. Cluetrain Thesis #8 The r...

Two decades of critical thinking and breathless utopian rhetoric about the potential of online communities says volumes about commonspace. What's real and what's vap...

Commonspace is a book about the people power of the Internet. It shows that the Internet isn't about dot coms, online malls or customizable coupons. It's about us. The...