Insightful post from David Edery on the need for Web 2.0/user-generate sites to start exploring wealth distribution schemes (eg, YouTube netting billions off the backs of free contributions, etc).

Interesting to consider how this might impact the game scene - both in terms of mods, but perhaps more so in what games like Spore are proposing. Second Life is certainly at the forefront of these user/producer boundaries.

In fact, this ties in nicely with a book I just finished reading: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.

Further, makes me wonder if the IGDA site, for example, should just be a wiki instead of a regular site with an embedded wiki… Hmm…