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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:50:02 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf () sethf com> Date: January 28, 2007 11:42:29 AM EST To: David Farber <dave () farber net>, ip () v2 listbox com Cc: "David S. Isenberg (Netidentity)" <isen () isen com>, ncarr () mac com Subject: Re: [IP] Looking for Benkler opponent [For IP, if worthy]
David S. Isenberg Date: January 28, 2007 10:14:14 AM EST Benkler's hypothesis, in a few words, is that lowering the capital requirements of information production (1) reduces the value ... (2) encourages a wider range of motivations ... (3) allows large-scale, cooperative information production ...
I'd suggest looking more towards enlightened skeptics than "conservative thinkers". Someone like, e.g. Clay Shirky, who wrote a popular piece on the theme of "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality" http://shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html , and has been active in debunking the hype over "Second Life"http://valleywag.com/tech/second-life/a-debunking-in-five- acts-224499.php
Or Nick Carr, see this piece against blog-evangelism http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/08/the_great_unrea.php Looking to "conservative thinkers" may yield someone doing a riff about how standards are degenerating and the world is going to hell in a handbasket due to the uncultured barbarians. Which I suspect will be the equivalent of "taking a dive" for the type of audience at Freedom-To-Connect. The key issue running throughout the book is the implication those information production changes have for liberal democracy. To oversimplify for brevity, this is the old cyber-utopian argument come round again (oldtimers may remember the days when strong cryptography was going to create libertarian techno-anarchy, as money moved to reputation-capital-driven data-havens, destroying government's ability to collect taxes - how's that working out?) Some discussions: http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003368.shtml http://crookedtimber.org/category/benkler-seminar/ -- Seth Finkelstein Consulting Programmer http://sethf.com Infothought blog - http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/ Interview: http://sethf.com/essays/major/greplaw-interview.php ------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ipArchives at: Archives: http://archives.listbox.com/247/
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