Cool. The method of warfare/conflict/protest/revolt pioneered on this blog -- open source insurgency -- is now mainstream. This blog's readers are now practitioners, and it's being used across the world with Tunisia and Egypt as the latest examples.
Unfortunately, even al Qaeda is starting to use it (they rebranded their effort as an "Open Source Jihad" and started to use ROI analysis as part of their planning regime) -- something I alerted the DoD/NSA/CIA to half a decade ago (to no avail given their insular bureaucracy).
So, now that everyone is on board, it's time to move on. What's more interesting to me is a twist on this recent statement by Fortune's David Kirkpatrick:
When is it going to happen to a company what just happened to Tunisia?
The interesting part about this statement isn't the straight forward application of open source insurgency against corporations (I've already detailed lots of ways that is going to happen).
No, what is interesting is how to use the methods of open source insurgency to create new types of companies and economic ecosystems built on different/better assumptions. New systems that can challenge/compete with the ossified elites in Davos in ways they can't even imagine yet.
One approach is what a small group (60 have signed up) are doing with "Picture This."
We're leveraging software, crowdsourcing, social networking, smart phones, digital photography, etc. (the same brew that grew twitter, Facebook, tumblr, etc. to hundreds of millions of participants and billions in value in a few short years) to build a new type of wealth engine.
NOTE: Some serious fighting going on in Suez, Egypt right now.