I was curious to stumble across the term "infonomics" during my searches -- I had not heard the term before, and I suppose "open source economics" is a subset of that discipline? Benkler seems to have some good ideas about helping jettison the "nasty, brutish, and short" aspects of being human. Looks really interesting!

Wow -- we could spend the entire semester debating the interpretation of that poem. Prof. Pavlovksy -- what a great idea!! ;) The one image I found disturbing about it was the line: "when we are free of our labors." Will this ever be the case, and is that a preferable reality??

Some of the statistics found on their site are mind-boggling. I saw this:

"By 2047 the world's population may reach about 11 billion. If only 25% of the then-world''s population is on the Internet, that is nearly 3 billion users or ten times the population estimated at the end of the next year."

Imagine all those voices speaking at once through the infrastructure of the internet. One side of me feels excited by the potential, while the other feels overwhelmed by the sheer amount of "noise" this will create.

the diigo interface has some funky issues in Chrome. Some posts are centered on the page, others are left aligned and comments don't seem to appear where they should... anyone else using Chrome?