Thanks Dan. I really think you're onto something here. Where Jenkins Convergence Culture focuses on fans interacting with mass media--Harry Potter, Star Wars, and so on--Coulton's story shows convergence on a more grassroots level (though Jenkins does discuss grassroots stuff as well). I find it more interesting and also a phenomenon more analogous to a potentially social-networked approach to composition.

I think our greatest challenge lies in shifting composition off of its foundation on the marketplace fiction of authorship. We have been willing to recognize the social everywhere in discourse except when it comes to the production of texts where we return to the reification of the individual.

In a marketplace sense Code Monkey is owned by Jonathan Coulton, and I support his being rewarded for his efforts. But we'll never understand composition if we allow that necessary marketplace fiction to obscure the creative process.