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 boingboing.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!)