Yochai Benkler is the author of the influential book Wealth of Networks, and is speaking fast for a short time.

The number of Americans using the internet for news and information has grown nine- or tenfold in the last ten years. 21 mill. haev used political videos (Feb 2007), 75 million used the internet in connection witht he political campaign of 2004. […]

They’ve set up a nice little interview thing on stage, with Thomas Friedman from the New York Times and Eric Schmidt from Google sitting across from each other with a little IKEA table between them and a soft Persian carpet underneath them. […]

I didn’t recognise Lawrence Lessig at all when he walked onto stage, although I’ve seen photos of his face many times. He’s young, dressed all in black, and his body language reminds me of my brother-in-law. I don’t know why, but I’d […]

I just arrived in New York for the Personal Democracy Forum conference tomorrow. I’m staying at Cosmopolitan Hotel, which is very close to the conference, reasonably priced (for New York) and had good reviews on Tripadvisor. My “mini-loft” may take a little […]

Pass?© at v?¶re online – Tjek.dk A trend analyst bureau called firstmove.dk predicts that the new cool thing, in the next years, will be NOT being available on Facebook, SMS, blogs, email, etc. (tags: trends offline dansk Danish)

Today I’m teaching for the very last time before my sabbatical! I still have weeks of administration and report-writing and grading to do before the semester’s done, but this is certainly a milestone on the way to my sabbatical. Wow, just imagine, […]

S¸ddeutsche Zeitung Magazin: Meine wilde Seite A series of Germans photographed with their World of Warcraft and Second Life avatars. “In Computerspielen laufen Tausende von Trollen, Elfen und Zauberern herum. Wer verbirgt sich eigentlich dahinter?” (tags: deutsch WoW SecondLife avatars photography) Klar […]

I got this on email, so don’t know where it came from or who made it [update: my commenters do though, read the comments to find out], but it’s kinda cute. We’re back from the states, had a wonderful trip! Bergen is […]

Poetry used to be a closed circuit, Emily Warn is saying. She runs PoetryFoundation.org, a site that has a couple of hundred million in funding, that just won a Webby – they have thousands of poems, classic and contemporary poems chosen for […]