A short trip through the world of dis­trib­uted cre­ation in the infor­ma­tion age, in ser­vice of, well, the world of dis­trib­uted creation…

(in order to avoid unec­es­sary stress and social ten­sion, I will reveal that this trip ends in the cre­ation of a cheap tshirt you can buy)

1. Bill Gates paints intel­lec­tual reform advo­cates as being “new modern-​​day sort of com­mu­nists” in an inter­view pub­lished online.

2. Xeni Jardin finds this tit­il­lating (as she often finds things) and posts about it over at boing​boing​.net.
3. This guy writes in to boing­boing to say “Obviously, what we need is a large red flag with a gold copy­left in the upper left, replacing the hammer and sickle.” Xeni ren­ders such a graphic and posts it.
4. This guy adapts the idea, inte­grating a “vec­tor­iza­tion I did of the Aeroflot logo”. Did he happen to have vec­tor­ized the Aeroflot logo before or after this all came up?
5. Somebody likes that design, and fires up a cafe­press node to print tshirts with them to any­body who likes them.
6. Somebody else, who hap­pens to own a silkscreening com­pany, fig­ures he can make better cheaper tshirts on the same theme, so he’s gonna.

Total time, ==> ,

UNDER TWO DAYS.

All of which illus­trates, appro­pri­ately, the power of dis­trib­uted cre­ation. Creative Commies, I salute you! (and Bill Gates, wel­come to the process!)