What’s a good example of demand-pull versus supply-push?
Demand-pull is what you see happening with blogs. Mass media is supply-push, and blogging is demand-pull. The power of the blog, to some extent, is that suddenly a whole set of bloggers intersect with each other and they move from oblivion to a powerful force that mass media then picks up. So, there’s an interesting interplay between demand-pull and supply-push; sets of synergies serendipitously happen that then force their way into consciousness, in terms of mass media. Okay, then how do niche communities—let’s say bloggers in a scientific discipline—impact innovation, given an open source model? The open source community at large understands that ideas come from the periphery as much as from the center. And that could be from the technological periphery, or from the set of users who are using a technology for their own educational purposes. D’es open content play a role, especially with strong participation from niche communities? To me, there is a seamless boundary between open sour
