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[The Pro-Am Revolution] I’ve got a review of Yochai Benkler’s book The Wealth of Networks in todays Financial Times Magazine. The link to pro-ams in Benkler’s work comes through his analysis of social production. As I say in the review: “Benkler argues that the internet is making obvious an existing form of exchange - social sharing - and taking it from the periphery to the mainstream of the economy. Conventional economics can’t explain why volunteer-generated projects such as Wikipedia or open-source software, which are given away for free, have been so successful. He proposes his own theory of “social production” - “commons-based peer production” - to fill the gap.” The full review is here...

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Crookedtimber.orghttp://crookedtimber.org [Crookedtimber.org] Crooked Timber » » Introduction: The Wealth of Networks seminar: My sympathies among the commenters lie mostly with Siva Vaidhyanathan, who points out that the book doesn’t devote enough space to the material conditions that underlie the debates that Yochai chronicles. I’m also sympathetic to Yochai’s response, which is largely to confirm that a Grand Unified Theory of Information can really only capture so much, and he thought it best to evaluate conditions as we find them, and to move forward from there.

http://netpublics.annenberg.edu [Netpublics.annenberg.edu] Networked Publics: Networked Performance pointed me toward an interview (download in PDF)with Networked Publics speaker Henry Jenkins and Networked Publics friend danah boyd about Myspace. The site, popular with teenagers, has become increasingly controversial as parents and the press raise concerns about the openness of information on the site and the vulnerability this supposedly poses to predators (Henry points out that only .

[Openbusiness.cc] OpenBusiness » Blog Archive » The Wealth of Networks: Wikipedia is probably the most famous example outside of software, but the phenomenon includes things like the Open Directory Project, a comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web, Slashdot, perhaps the most important technology newsletter, and many of the major blogs. Some commons-based peer production efforts are less self-conscious on the part of the users, and emerge more as a function of distributed coordinate behavior, like del.icio.us or Flickr.

[Blog.kapor.com] Mitch Kapor’s Blog » Blog Archive » The Wealth of Networks: Interestingly, I’ve noticed a relevant blog-posting by Mitch Kapor about Ward’s subject matter; here’s a snippet from the posting: […]

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[Gumption] The Health of Nations: Inequality, Stress and... : Bezruchka notes that Japan has the highest rate of male smokers of any wealthy country, and yet also has the highest average health, based on statistics collected in the Human Development Report from the United Nations Development Programme. The United States, despite being the world's wealthiest country, is not even close to being the world's healthiest country, on any of the metrics in the report (e.g., it ranks 29th in life expectancy, just ahead of Cuba). 

[Morph-The Media Center conversation] On Webcomics, Networked Society, and Convergence... : I have been reading a new book by Yale Law Professor Yochai Benkler, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, which offers a pretty compelling account of the ways that the technological and social shifts wrought by the so-called digital revolution are generating new models of cultural expression and civic engagement. In the book's introduction, he writes:

日々是弥縫http://d.hatena.ne.jp/patching [日々是弥縫] â– : Chris Lawer on customer Innovation blogのエントリーExperience hierarchy and non-market co-creationより I can see now that many of the elements for successful co-creation exist outside the corporate or market mechanism of exchange, no matter how advanced a firm is in enacting new capabilities to learn from customers. Rather, successful co-creation

http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms [Collectivate.net - 'journalisms'] Collectve Action: Participation Current debates focus too much on what sociable web media can do and not enough on the people who use them. The difficulties and dynamics of eliciting contributions in an online environment are often underestimated.

http://madisonian.net [madisonian.net] P2P Surveillance vs. the Whiggishness of... : Thanks to Mike for the heads-up on the Crooked Timber discussion of Yochai Benkler’s Wealth of Networks, which finally spurred me to read (some of) the book. (Several long train rides didn’t hurt either!)

[P2P Foundation] A2K Yale: To coincide with the recent Asia Conference on the Digital Commons in Bangkok (June 6-8), I thought p2p foundation blog readers would appreciate hearing more about my recent trip to the Access to Knowledge (A2K) Conference that took place at Yale Law School between April 21-23 2006. According to Wikipedia: “The goals of Access to Knowledge are embodied in a draft treaty, emerging from a call from Brazil and Argentina for a development agenda for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

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