I composed a short list of some essential readings that reflect a world-view appropriate to the Internet Era, I shared it with friends studying Community Informatics and Civic Entrepreurship, two domains seeking a better world. Since I recently catalogued (part of) my personal library using LibraryThing, it makes sense to share these here as well (as they are part of my virtual library).
These writings provide a conceptual matrix for an interesting breed of Civic Entrepreneur- (it’s a partial list) … really a new model of Citizenship and Society/Polity. They aren’t new to a lot of you - and if you have other works that you think really need to be on the list, please let me know.
Movement as Network, by Gideon Rosenblatt, also: The three pillars of social source
David Isenberg’s Rise of the Stupid Network
Pushing Power to the Edges (pdf) by Jillaine Smith, Martin Kearns, Allison Fine
The Cluetrain Manifesto (Doc Searles, et al.)
Cory Doctorow’s Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom
Coase’s Penguin: (by Yochai Benkler … his book The Wealth of Networks is also recommended. There’s a wiki inviting discussion of his ideas.)
The list doesn’t represent any hierarchic ordering.
