My Review of Crush It

Yesterday I flew from Boston to Portland giving me ample time to get caught up on my reading. I finished off “Outliers” by Malcolm Gladwell…

Trust Agents Review

I finally finished Trust Agents over Thanksgiving. Wow, I made it sound like it was a multi-edition book series or that I was a horribly…

Free! Got Me Thinking

On my summer reading list this year was “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” by Chris Anderson. I really enjoyed this book, it…

The Wealth of Networks Chapter Reviews – Chapter 6

In Chapter 6 Benkler begins to lay the groundwork of how the information economy has changed mass media

I believe I see…

The Wealth of Networks Chapter Review – Chapter 5

In reading chapter five of The Wealth of Networks it began to dawn on me on how elitist the conversation is for this…

The Wealth of Networks Chapter Review – Chapter 4

In Benkler’s analysis of social production he examines why people in the open source software community operate the way they do. I find it interesting…

The Wealth of Networks Chapter Reviews – Chapter 3

In Chapter 3 Benkler looks at how different groups leverage the computing power of the masses, be it either volunteers or customers, through different peering…

The Wealth of Networks Chapter Reviews – Chapter 2

I think that chapter 2 and the additional sources that Benkler cited raised some interesting questions about where we are going in regards to

The Wealth of Networks Chapter Review – Chapter 1

At the start of the semester I brought up the fact that I am taking a class that focuses on “The Wealth…

The Wealth of Networks Chapter Reviews – Chapter 7

In Chapter Seven Benkler addresses the arguments that have been laid out against the networked public sphere. I thought that Benkler offered solid counter points…