February 12, 2010
moot speaking at TED
I think nonprofits should be the new start-ups:
In a brief question and answer exchange between moot and TED’s Chris Anderson, moot said that money wasn’t the goal of creating 4chan. “The commercial picture is that there really isn’t one,” he said. More laughs, mostly uneasy, and I was left with a sense that many people in the room did not understand. I did, because like 4chan, Ars was started not to make money, but to service a community. Whether or not 4chan has a real commercial future isn’t clear, moot said, but he was going back to school and hoped to apply all he has learned from 4chan to some future venture.
Most of moots discussion (hat tip to waxy), however, centered around 4chan and the power of privacy, particularly in an age when transparency and publicity through social networking is lauded. The whole talk reminds me of why I love the flock’s Christopher Walken.
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