[p2p-research] Amazon created the workforce online market

[Michel Bauwens]

well, the common point is modularity,

but it makes a huge distinction whether they are done in an alienating
'division of labor' kind of way, with very low income,

and by passionate producers in charge of their own modules, in a
'distribution of labour" contexgt

it seems to me that free software modules are meaningful units, as opposed
to the micro-tasks of mechanical turk

in our wiki:


   - Modularity <http://p2pfoundation.net/Modularity>
   '''= What is a Modular System? Modularity is an essential condition for
   [[Peer Production]]''' Distribution is also dependent on modularity,
   which means the break up of the raw materials into smaller modules, so th
   ...
   23 KB (3765 words) - 14:23, 22 July 2010
   - Remixability and
Modularity<http://p2pfoundation.net/Remixability_and_Modularity>
   Manovich, Lev (2005), '''Remixability and Modularity''' See our entries
   on [[Remix Culture]] and [[Modularity]]
   317 B (44 words) - 12:58, 1 January 2007
   - Modularity in Open
Source<http://p2pfoundation.net/Modularity_in_Open_Source>
   See our general treatment on [[Modularity]] as a pre-condition for [[Peer
   Production]] to occur. Modularity and the Organizational Economics
   26 KB (3968 words) - 14:24, 22 July 2010
   - Modularity in Science <http://p2pfoundation.net/Modularity_in_Science>
   ==Michael Nielsen on the need for a "[[Conscious Modularity]]" for [[Open
   Science]]== ... ware projects, but that difficult science problems often
   have less natural modularity, and this makes it unlikely that open
   science will scale.
   3 KB (522 words) - 20:07, 1 April 2009
   - Conscious Modularity <http://p2pfoundation.net/Conscious_Modularity>
   See Michael Nielsen's contribution on [[Modularity in Science]] at
   http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=591
   105 B (14 words) - 20:07, 1 April 2009



On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:37 AM, magius <gmagius at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2010/8/4 Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org>:
>
> > The tasks are very different from free software
> > development.  Typically they're things like "identify
> > the type of business shown in this photo" or "select
> > a category for this directory listing."
> >
> > (You can't split up a software project into abstract
> > work units.  The industry has been trying to do so
> > for decades.)
>
> Sure the complexity of commits is more. But the idea to split a
> project in units of contribution using a collaborative platform it
> seems to me similar.
>
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