http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/15/the-wealth-of-networks/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:35:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/15/the-wealth-of-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-151943 ElectraPress » The Wealth of Networks Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:27:39 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4562#comment-151943 [...] Henry over at Crooked Timber posted over the weekend about Yochai Benkler’s new book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, which has just been released by Yale University Press. Benkler has also made the book available in PDF format, and has created a wiki for the text, allowing for a different kind of interaction between readers and this text: The basic idea is to make this Wiki a place where people who read the book can do at least four things. First, collaborate on writing a summary of the ideas and claims of the book, as an initial point of entry. Second, provide an easy platform through which to access underlying research materials: both those used in the book’s notes, and more importantly, resources that are useful for further research, refinement, and updating. Third, the Wiki should be a place where participants can describe, link to, and analyze examples of the phenomena the book describes. The purpose is not to “make the case” for the book or find “gotcha” counter examples. What we are trying to do is provide a real research tool, annotated bibliography, and platform for collaborative learning. Examples and counter-examples should be selected and described with that purpose in mind. Fourth, the Wiki is itself a learning platform about what is valuable in a learning platform. Through separate pages devoted to ideas and experiments of what can be done with an online book to make it a learning platform, we hope to expand the range of uses to which this Wiki can be available. [...] [...] Henry over at Crooked Timber posted over the weekend about Yochai Benkler’s new book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, which has just been released by Yale University Press. Benkler has also made the book available in PDF format, and has created a wiki for the text, allowing for a different kind of interaction between readers and this text: The basic idea is to make this Wiki a place where people who read the book can do at least four things. First, collaborate on writing a summary of the ideas and claims of the book, as an initial point of entry. Second, provide an easy platform through which to access underlying research materials: both those used in the book’s notes, and more importantly, resources that are useful for further research, refinement, and updating. Third, the Wiki should be a place where participants can describe, link to, and analyze examples of the phenomena the book describes. The purpose is not to “make the case” for the book or find “gotcha” counter examples. What we are trying to do is provide a real research tool, annotated bibliography, and platform for collaborative learning. Examples and counter-examples should be selected and described with that purpose in mind. Fourth, the Wiki is itself a learning platform about what is valuable in a learning platform. Through separate pages devoted to ideas and experiments of what can be done with an online book to make it a learning platform, we hope to expand the range of uses to which this Wiki can be available. [...]

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/15/the-wealth-of-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-151901 washerdreyer Sun, 16 Apr 2006 19:22:44 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4562#comment-151901 Jack Balkin had us read most of this book for a class he was teaching last semester. Without looking back through my notes in order to make a substantive comment, I think I can safely say it was excellent. Jack Balkin had us read most of this book for a class he was teaching last semester. Without looking back through my notes in order to make a substantive comment, I think I can safely say it was excellent.

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/15/the-wealth-of-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-151888 joel turnipseed Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:46:33 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4562#comment-151888 Just gave this a cursory couple-hour read and yes--it's fascinating & well-balanced. Hope we get to have a CT seminar on this soon (and that when we do, we have a centralized post/joint comments)! Just gave this a cursory couple-hour read and yes—it’s fascinating & well-balanced. Hope we get to have a CT seminar on this soon (and that when we do, we have a centralized post/joint comments)!

]]> http://crookedtimber.org/2006/04/15/the-wealth-of-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-151878 Sociala nätverk, teknologi och politik at Det perfekta tomrummet Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:09:54 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/?p=4562#comment-151878 [...] [via Crooked Timber.] [...] [...] [via Crooked Timber.] [...]

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