thanks Matthew, I tweeted/facebooked your article!

"When a project takes on venture capital or sells shares, it becomes obliged to maximise the returns on investment, which means a national, or city by city marketing campaign, in hope of establishing monopoly. The progressive intentions of the founders of Nextdoor to build community are utterly incidental to the imperatives imposed by capital. Until a monopoly emerges, the usual venture capital model of building a technology - trying to build the biggest silo, is actually counter to the stated aims of these community building sites. And once the monopoly is established and the alternatives diminished, the users can do little to prevent abuses."

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Matthew Slater <matslats@gmail.com> wrote:
Michel
I've expanded my last blogpost here, 'tis much improved
http://matslats.net/global-local-capitalism

and the slightly less litigous version is on Shareable
http://www.shareable.net/blog/capitalism-cant-build-community-web-services

It does end up in a more self promoting manner, but I make no apologies for that.
Not sure what you meant - 'publishable as a blog proposal'.
Anyhow, use it if and how you want.

Matthew

On 28 October 2011 22:01, Michel Bauwens <michel@p2pfoundation.net> wrote:
good idea, and publishable as blog proposal, though I don't think the title reflects the content too well,

Michel


On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Matthew Slater <matslats@gmail.com> wrote:
Neil, Mark, Michel,
Anybody want to comment on this?
http://matslats.net/global-local-capitalism
I feel it is a little short, still
And then is it publishable?
Matthew

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