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From David Levine’s Hearsay Culture interview program, and other sources including our own directories on books, podcasts and webcasts, we have selected for you, a series of authors passionately talking about their books.

If you have little time to read, but can spend time listening during your commute or otherwise, this will provide you with many hours of interesting listening and watching experience.

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Here’s the list, please do suggest others:

1. Cass Sunstein on Infotopia
2. Charles Leadbeater on We Think
3. Chris Anderson on the Emergence of Free
4. Christopher Kelty on Free Software as Culture
5. Clay Shirky on Here Comes Everybody
6. Daniel Solove on the Future of Reputation
7. David Brin on the Transparent Society
8. David Korten on The Great Turning
9. David Weinberger on Everything Is Miscellaneous
10. Douglas Rushkoff on Corporatism
11. Erik Davis on TechGnosis
12. Interview with Mark Anielski on the Economics of Happiness
13. Joanna Demers on Steal This Music
14. John Thackara on Participatory Design for a Complex World, on the book “In the Bubble”
15. John Willinsky on The Access Principle
16. Jonathan Zittrain on the Future of the Internet
17. Julian Dibbell on Play Money
18. Kristin Lord on the Perils of Global Transparency
19. Matt Mason on the Pirate’s Dilemma
20. Paul Duguid on the Social Life of Information
21. Richard Lanham on the Economics of Attention
22. Robert Markley on Virtual Realities and Their Discontents
23. Rod Beckstrom on The Starfish and the Spider
24. Steven Weber on the Success of Open Source
25. Terry Fisher on Promises to Keep
26. Tim Wu on Who Controls The Internet
27. Yochai Benkler on the Wealth of Networks

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What should we think of the U.S. Elections? Especially as a pluralist network?

Consider this entry an update to the Predator State article.

Can we be neutral towards those kind of forces?

Consider this hair raising theocratic video from Sarah Palin’s local church … , and then ask yourself whether you would like to live under such a regime?

I consider Douglas Rushkoff a wise and moderate guy, with an integrative bent that tries to overcome different viewpoints in a higher unity.

But here’s what he said after witnessing the Republican convention:

“What is it they hate? Guiliani and Palin both made it pretty clear: community organizing. Community organizing is energized from below. From the periphery. It is the direction and facilitation of mass energy towards productive and cooperative ends. It is about replacing conflict with collaboration. It is the opposite of war; it is peace.

In their attack on community organizing - a word combination they pretended they didn’t know what it meant - Giuliani and Palin revealed their refusal to acknowledge the kinds of bottom-up processes through which our society was built, and through which local communities can begin to assert some authority over their schools, environments, and economies. Without organized communities, you don’t get the reduction in centralized government the Republicans pretend to be arguing for. In their view, community organizing as, at best, equivalent to disruptive and unpredictable Al Qaeda activity.”

And here’s how he explains the dynamic behind it:

“As I explained in Coercion, having a parent figure on whom to transfer authority allows people to regress to a more childlike state. This not only allows them to feel safe; if gives them the freedom to express their rage. Make no mistake - that’s what we’re witnessing. And this rage - not America - is the greatest threat to humanity’s long-term chances for survival.

I don’t believe hate is the best way to motivate people to develop long-term solutions to problems. It is a tried and tested way to motivate them to short-term support of dangerous leaders. That much is certain. But if McCain and Palin are able to rouse the national hatred they will need to actually win this election, I fear they will have unleashed a force that they will be unable to control. ”