ThePlayEthic

Context : AboutPlay

http://www.theplayethic.com

• blog : http://www.journalscape.com/playjournal/

• review : http://www.clickmt.com/public/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=fulldetails&newsUID=20b0f426-1e36-4d87-bc90-12e4ff072541

How to be a player : http://theplayethic.typepad.com/playjournal/2004/09/playethic_inde.html

Interesting emphasis on internet connectivity. Play ethic is also InternetCulture?

Of course, the play ethic is meant to succeed TheProtestantWorkEthic, so this is a historicism along the lines of FeudalismCapitalismInformationalism.

Also, it should be compared and contrasted with TheHackerEthic and some sort of FeudalismCapitalismOpenSourceCapitalism

Compare :

• CreativeClass (if play is economically useful)

• Kane's "players" are a bit like "hackers" : OnHacking

• Also compare NetoCracy/Consumtariat and SpimeWrangler