The group blog Crooked Timber is hosting a seminar on Yochai Benkler's recent book The Wealth of Networks. People on this list may find it of interest. The introductory post has links to all of the contributions (by Henry Farrell, Dan Hunter, John Quiggin, Eszter Hargittai, Jack Balkin and Siva Vaidhyanathan) including a response from Benkler. http://crookedtimber.org/2006/05/30/introduction-the-wealth-of-networks-semi... Benkler raises a lot of interesting and important issues in his book, we're hoping this seminar will lead to lots of additional conversations. Eszter http://www.eszter.com