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This Wiki is an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler's book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, available under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Sharealike license.

Read the book

in different formats:

Wiki: summaries, commentary, downloads
PDF - in the original book format or in a paper-friendly version
HTML - formatted in separate chapters, in an easier-to-read format
Hardcopy: from Amazon or from Yale Press
Translations
Remixes

Reviews and Blogs

Lessig blog, by Lawrence Lessig, 15Apr06.
Financial Times, Net Gains, by Paul Miller, 07Jul06.
Times Online, Netizens Awake, by Paul Duguid, 07Jul06.
Rough Type, Calacanis's wallet and the Web 2.0 dream, by Nicholas Carr, 19Jul06. See also Benkler's reply, 28Jul06.
New Statesman, Power to the People, by Kenneth Cukier, 04Sep06.
German Law Journal, by James Brink, 01Oct06.
Public Knowledge, by Gigi Sohn, 03Oct06.

Discussions

Crooked Timber (Net-seminar)
OpenBusiness (interview)
OpenDemocracy (interview)

Using this wiki

The basic idea is to make this Wiki a place for at least five things:

Collaborate on writing a summary of the ideas and claims of the book (see Table of Contents)
Collaborate on writing commentaries and elaborating and refining the presentation
Provide an easy platform through which to access underlying research materials:
- those used in the book's notes
- and resources that are useful for further research, refinement, and updating
Describe, link to, and analyze examples of the phenomena the book describes
- The purpose is not to “make the case” for the book or find “gotcha” counter examples. What we are trying to do is provide a real research tool, annotated bibliography, and platform for collaborative learning. Examples and counter-examples should be selected and described with that purpose in mind.
Demonstrate and discover what is valuable in a learning platform
- Through separate pages devoted to ideas and experiments of what can be done with an online book to make it a learning platform, we hope to expand the range of uses to which this Wiki can be available.
- Through creative, systematic and interactive uses of this wiki, we hope to enhance our individual and collective skills & experience in a wiki world

Growing this Wiki

Growing this Wiki: Ideas for how to help the wiki grow and be useful
Remixes

A Wiki User's Guide

See the User's Guide for usage and configuration help.

Please use the Sandbox for experiments and to get acquainted with this wiki.