REMIX AND REMIXABILITY

"The dramatic increase in quantity of information greatly speeded up by
Internet has been accompanied by another fundamental development. Imagine
water running down a mountain. If the quantity of water keeps continuously
increasing, it will find numerous new paths and these paths will keep
getting wider. Something similar is happening as the amount of information
keeps growing - except these paths are also all connected to each other and
they go in all directions; up, down, sideways. Here are some of these new
paths which facilitate movement of information between people, listed in no
particular order: SMS, forward and redirect function in email clients,
mailing lists, Web links, RSS, blogs, social bookmarking, tagging,
publishing (as in publishing one¹s playlist on a web site), peer-to-peer
networks, Web services, Firewire, Bluetooth. These paths stimulate people to
draw information from all kinds of sources into their own space, remix and
make it available to others, as well as to collaborate or at least play on a
common information platform (Wikipedia, Flickr)".