From blogs to digital feudalism

Since the apparition of free hosting and the blogging culture, Internet users have enjoyed a sort of space democratisation on the web. A digital agrarian revolution, which permits people have a piece of land where intimate, artistic or simply commercial issues are shown.

Well immersed in a capitalistic era, as we are, the big names of the net operate as simple empowered entities, which dominate markets just as powerful nations do. Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Amazon or E-bay, are some of the new feudal landlords. They can give opportunities for small businesses to grow, this constitutes a new and modern version of humble farmers who cultivate and grow their products on line.

It may well be seen as an economic phenomenal, the old feudalism gave origin to capitalism. Nowadays, both forces represent an unprecedented unseen relation. The formation of a new e-bourgeoisie suggests a radical repetition of an old structural result: The post-modern historicist version of a social division connected right on the web.

Similarly, hosting companies sell and commercialise domains as fertile land for further prosperous entrepreneurships. As a result, there are more competitive initiatives within the Internet. This may be perceived as positive, as it feels like the very democratic regime which allows everyone to run a company as well as it allows people to show their art or their intimacy.

However, the peaceful hegemony exists. A minority controls the redistribution of digital space and the e-working class, struggles for success. As many relatively repeated historic issues, the humanity implicitly intends to improve things, just like the west has demonstrated. The Internet as a parallel case of study is showing that, as the history has been divided between a pre and post Internet era, some transitions from the past are being repeated in a modern and digital version. Hopefully, there won’t be any e-world wars.