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Free Culture and Attention as Currency

Waxing UnLyrical

Most web assets from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Tumblr, Foursquare and a gazillion others appear to be free, opening floodgates of content, ranging from the genius of Wikipedia/ Ushahidi to the apparently innocuous LOLcats. To begin with, let us do away with presumptions of terms like “free” and “open.”

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21 Content Marketing Tools to Use in 2014

Writtent Blog

In a nutshell, it’s a hub for creating socially-relevant content for multiple channels, from Tumblr to WordPress, and keeping everything organized and measured along the way. Answering customer FAQ in your blogs is crucial, but what if you’re a brand new startup? A free, open source tool for capturing and recording audio files?

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The person who tweeted at me last week about this was especially into open source for her own reasons, so all of the sudden, this meant that I should have given her a freebie. As a technologist and startup guy, I’ve been continually vexed by the problem of free. Yeah, but doesn’t the Open Source movement get funded?

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