Comments on: Your product may no longer be your product

By: Harold Jarche » The business of information

Harold Jarche » The business of information — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:39:37 +0000

[...] I wrote earlier this year about the changing information business. [...]

By: Wayne Hodgins

Wayne Hodgins — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:00:39 +0000

Thanks for initiating this needed discussion Harold. An important topic which I suspect most of us are experiencing.

I’ve added some of my thoughts over on my Off Course – On Target blog http://waynehodgins.typepad.com/ontarget/2010/01/your-product-may-no-longer-be-your-product-harold-jarche.html

Look forward to continuing the conversation.

By: Harold Jarche

Harold Jarche — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:41:02 +0000

Thanks for the Stewart Brand quote, Dave; it’s an excellent addition to this conversation.

By: Dave Ferguson

Dave Ferguson — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:25:10 +0000

I like the phrase “mass customization.” And I like your decision not to put ads on your site. Each to his own, of course, but usually blogs with ads strike me as an online version of a NASCAR jumpsuit: a basic outfit festooned with unrelated, distracting flapdoodle.

As for sites with “click here for this great report,” when the report is some randomized third-party digital remainder offered mainly in hopes of grubbing a few cents, it’s a lot like inviting people over to your house so when they leave you can search for change under the couch cushions.

…As for ‘information wants to be free,’ I think Stewart Brand’s complete statement is more nuanced and connects well with what you say here:

Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive.Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine—too cheap to meter. It wants to be expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable to the recipient. That tension will not go away. It leads to endless wrenching debate about price, copyright, ‘intellectual property’, the moral rightness of casual distribution, because each round of new devices makes the tension worse, not better.

By: Product Design Piracy and The Product Bay « Ponoko – Blog

Product Design Piracy and The Product Bay « Ponoko – Blog — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:54:01 +0000

[...] perhaps more importantly to quote Harold Jarche slightly out of context“The challenge …. is figuring out the 90% that we should give [...]