Updated 26/3/2007
Two years ago I mentioned Yochai Benkler's essay Sharing Nicely: On Shareable Goods and the Emergence of Sharing as a Modality of Economic Production, which "offers a framework to explain large-scale effective practices of sharing private, excludable goods". Last year Benkler, who is an academic lawyer at Yale University, published The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (also freely available under a Creative Commons license), and reviewed here by Paul Miller in the Financial Times. Here is a post by David Weinberger written during a talk on 5 March 2007 by Benkler, from where I stumbled onto this Wiki, which has been set up as "an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment" based on The Wealth of Networks. (Coming to it cold it is not immediately obvious whether and if yes how the Wiki is succeeding in the task.)
26/3/2007. If you can bear the over-long welcoming remarks, listen to and watch Benkler's 70 minute "Freedom in the Commons" lecture available from this page on the Duke Law School web site.
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