July 9, 2008
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The Personal Democracy Forum presents an anthology of forty-four essays brimming with the hopes of reenergizing, reorganizing, and reorienting our government for the Internet Age. How would completely reorganizing our system of representation work?
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In what we hope becomes an annual tradition, the Post Investigations blog names the top newspaper investigations of 2007. “Sold a Nightmare,” “Hidden Hazards,” “Abuse of county pension funds,” “Investigation fo HUD Secretary,” “A Toxic Pipeline.”
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Why internships are bad for young people and bad for the industry: News is delivered by people who harbor similar ambitions and come from similar well-heeled backgrounds, people who spend summers in the same cities and work at the same organizations.
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The lesson of this paper is that in more or less standard conditions a collectively rational and individually responsive group agent will have to be self-governing (giving some sub-units a special, regulatory role) rather than self-organizing (like ants).
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Response by Yochai Benkler, The Dialectic of Technology, Mediating the Social Contradiction of the Digital Age, Whose networks? Whose wealth?, Why do social networks work?, A General Theory of Information Policy, Norms and Networks, etc.
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A paper which looks at the first decent dataset that allows us to figure out what blog readers look like. First, blog readers seem to exhibit strong homophily. Second, blog readers are much more likely than non blog readers to engage in politics.
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