{"id":1063,"date":"2008-02-17T10:39:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T09:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/index.php\/archive\/better-than-free\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T10:39:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T09:39:28","slug":"better-than-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/2008\/02\/better-than-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Than Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; MARGIN: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-content\/uploads\/copy-transmission.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"146\" alt=\"copy-transmission.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" \/>Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick at Wired (now that&#8217;s a cool job description) has written an intriguing essay called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/edge.org\/3rd_culture\/kelly08\/kelly08_index.html\">Better Than Free<\/a>&#8220;, where he probes the question of how thoughts, ideas and words that can be so easily copied can still have economic value:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super abundant, stuff which can&#8217;t be copied becomes scarce and valuable. When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can&#8217;t be copied?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He explains eight qualities and characteristics that can render something (like media industry business models &#8230;) financially sensible, turning it into something that&#8217;s &#8220;better than free&#8221;. These are &#8220;uncopyable values&#8221; like <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Immediacy, Personalization, Interpretation, Authenticity, Accessibility, Embodiment, Patronage, Findability<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick at Wired (now that&#8217;s a cool job description) has written an intriguing essay called &#8220;Better Than Free&#8220;, where he probes the question of how thoughts, ideas and words that can be so easily copied can still have economic value: When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,11,4,6,8],"tags":[15,26,1021],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martin-koser.de\/BMID\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}