Adriana: Code of conduct is for bullies
... to help them, not to stop them. Bullies like to control other people's behaviour and compulsory codes are a great tool. If people are causing harm to others, there are laws to stop them. Compulsory rules, codes of conduct don't make people civil or polite, they remove yet another layer of freedom from our lives and relationships.

Adriana (via Doc Searls)
"isms" are for people who don't have blogs.
Quid pro quo is how control freaks have relationships.

Matt Locke looks at The Economist's crowd-sourcing project, Project Red Stripe, and offers plenty of constructive advice based BBC's experiences with open innovation projects (via David Black):

... having an open conversation means that people won't hesitate to tell you where you're going wrong, and will suggest improvements. The Red Stripe team are actually being pretty good at this, but are maybe still coming across as a bit precious. There are some interesting comments on their blog referring to other comments about the IP issues, but the tone is a little 'us and them' - they point to comments anonymously and ridicule a few submissions, which is huge mistake - if you've got a private submission process, don't then decide to reveal a couple of ideas, even anonymously, to take the piss out of them. It looks like you're treating your participants as idiots, and treating their ideas (and IP) with casual disdain. Overall, the blog has the tone of people speaking to a community, rather than being part of that community.