CALIOPOLIS

Here is a slightly easier way to find podcasts from the 2006 AALS Annual Meeting held in January of this year. I took the lists from all four days, combined them and stripped off any sessions that were not podcastand stripped out the session descriptions. Only the sesctions, titlesand speakers (and of course links to […]

As I have mentioned before, I listen to 10-20 podcasts a week and I am going to make it a point to blog about the best that I come across. These types of posts will be rather infrequent. The first podcast is Stephen Downes giving a talk in Tennessee. He is a Senior Researcher at […]

From page 120-121 of Benkler’s Wealth of Networks … "… Goods, services, and resources that, in the industrial stage of the information economy required large-scale, concentrated capital investment to provision, are now subject to a changing technological environment that can make sharing a better way of achieving the same results than can states, markets, or […]

Along with Dave Hambourger of Winston & Strawn, I gave a presentation at the 2006 ABA Techshow this morning. As promised this post contains the links to the Powerpoint slides and an MP3 recordings of the talk. Slides – JohnMayerABATechShow3.ppt MP3 (61 minutes/11 MB) – ABATechSHow.mp3 The talk was called Communications, Convergence and the Virtual […]

I listen to a lot of podcasts – 10 to 20 per week while I am walking my dog or driving to/from work. Mostly these are presentations given at conferences or talks/brown bag seminars at schools by scholars and the amount of knowledge available in these fora is fantastic. In the past week, I listened […]

Update: It is exam time and that means the CALI servers are running white-hot. We passed 600,000 lesson runs a few hours ago – only 2 1/2 weeks since I posted that we had passed 500,000. Good Luck to all on your finals! It is often difficult to measure the quality of the work you […]

From page 55 of Professor Yochai Benkler’s book Wealth of Networks … "…A billion people in advanced economies may have between two billion and six billion spare hours among them, every day…" (a) There are about 10,000 law faculty employed in US law schools today. (b) There are 30 subject areas in the CALI Lesson […]

This is my third post on my reading of Professor Yochai Benkler’s Wealth of Networks. Quote from page 31… "…Technology creates feasibility spaces for social practice…" I am enamored of Benkler’s choice of the word "feasibility". It implies what is possible, not what is certain and this is certainly a central theme of the book. […]

Two snippets from Wealth of Networks … "…the networked information environment offers us a more attractive cultural production system in two distinct ways: (1) it makes culture more transparent, and (2) it makes culture more malleable…" and, "… culture is becoming more democratic: self-reflective and participatory…" Both are from page 15. My interests lie in […]

Professor Yochai Benkler of Yale Law School has a new book out that promises to be stimulating and revelatory. I have ordered my copy from Amazon and have also started to read the free PDF version he provides under Creative Commons license from his website. I expect this to expand on thinking that was first […]