Looking for Benkler opponent

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "David S. Isenberg (Netidentity)" <isen () isen com>
Date: January 28, 2007 10:14:14 AM EST
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Looking for Benkler opponent

Dave,

For IP list, please, per your judgement.

I'm looking for somebody who can present a principled
opposition to Yochai Benkler's "Wealth of Networks" hypothesis
to speak at my upcoming "F2C: Freedom to Connect" conference in
Washington DC on March 5 and 6.  I've asked *several* prominent
conservative thinkers if they'd be available for this and
they're not, so if you'd be so kind as to put this on IP,
I'd sincerely appreciate it.

I invite a written proposal, a couple hundred words outlining the
argument to be advanced.  There's no deadline but the meeting
itself, however, I'll give highest priority to the ones I
see first.  The acceptance criterion will be my own
judgement.

Benkler's hypothesis, in a few words, is that lowering the capital
requirements of information production (1) reduces the value of
proprietary strategies and makes public, shared information more
important, (2) encourages a wider range of motivations to produce,
thus demoting supply-and-demand from prime motivator to one-of-many,
and (3) allows large-scale, cooperative information production
efforts that were not possible before, from open-source software,
to search engines and encyclopedias, to massively multi-player
online games.  There's LOTS more at http://benkler.org.

Thank you!
David I
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F2C: Freedom to Connect, March 5 & 6, 2007
Washington, DC http://freedom-to-connect.net
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