i can't wait to find out what other industry gets me all jazzed about this

although communications is still pretty fun

But not for every market.

Beyond the big picture, it's more interesting to see where it applies,
is meaningful, hasn't appeared yet but will. This is what Masnick
meant when he wrote that media and entertainment are just “canaries in
the coal mine” for many other industries. The real fun is applying the
principles to picking out the next ones. Build a better
school/truck/bureacracy, right?

Someone has to be the market maker right?

And isn't aggregation just market power manifested?

Except for infinitely flexi intangible products, or a revolution on
physical mnfctring, I don't see how anyone escapes this

Today, aggregation pays (meaning, money flows to those that own lots
of data). I think Doc is interested in a tomorrow where aggregation
isn't the economically dominant strategy it is today.

Perhaps if the econ of aggregation change, pulling from the same
trends in niches (Umair's Nichepaper manifesto) and demonstrated by
the hyperlocal stuff, perhaps aggregation won't pay like it does
today, and instead of aggregation it's all about facilitation: routing
through a market rather than accessing a warehouse.

Not sure if that makes any sense :)

Alan is dead on in my opinion, but Doc's stuff has been very dogmatic against aggregation…which leaves me wondering in a lot of ways.

That post from Alan is the true “VRM manifesto”

Therefore, the game mechanics between individuals and the community are a little different here. At least that's my first thoughts. This is very much a thinking-out-loud exercise here :)