thanks Matthew, I tweeted/facebooked your article!<br><br>"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 <a href="https://nextdoor.com/about_us/">the
founders of Nextdoor</a> 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."<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Matthew Slater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matslats@gmail.com">matslats@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Michel<br>I've expanded my last blogpost here, 'tis much improved<br><a href="http://matslats.net/global-local-capitalism" target="_blank">http://matslats.net/global-local-capitalism</a><br>
<br>and the slightly less litigous version is on Shareable<br>
<a href="http://www.shareable.net/blog/capitalism-cant-build-community-web-services" target="_blank">http://www.shareable.net/blog/capitalism-cant-build-community-web-services</a><br><br>It does end up in a more self promoting manner, but I make no apologies for that.<br>
Not sure what you meant - 'publishable as a blog proposal'. <br>Anyhow, use it if and how you want.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Matthew<br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 28 October 2011 22:01, Michel Bauwens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel@p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">michel@p2pfoundation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">good idea, and publishable as blog proposal, though I don't think the title reflects the content too well,<br>
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Michel<div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Matthew Slater <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matslats@gmail.com" target="_blank">matslats@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Neil, Mark, Michel,<br>Anybody want to comment on this?<br><a href="http://matslats.net/global-local-capitalism" target="_blank">http://matslats.net/global-local-capitalism</a><br>
I feel it is a little short, still<br>And then is it publishable?<br>
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