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After reading Fred’s post yesterday about Correspondence, it occurred to me that my senior thesis from 1999 was more relevant than ever.  I begin with a discussion of de Tocqueville, progress to initiative and referendum campaigns, take a detour into the Teledemocracy experiments of the 70’s, and conclude with a discussion of what we now call Web 2.0 technologies. If [...]

The notion of  the ultralight hacker team has permeated web startups over the past few years.  There were always teams of two to three individuals building software, but the extent and quality of the output of these teams seems to me to have reached a new level in recent times.  Entire, fully-functional products are now created and operated by teams [...]

Cover via AmazonCover via Amazon I found both on Google Books, and then bitlyized the links… Worked as a research assistant for my thesis advisor and friend Paul Starr on his book, “The Creation of the Media” http://bit.ly/creationmedia A crazy theory I had in Prof John Wilmerding’s Early American art class made it into his book “Signs of the Artist.” [...]