Mika's art project is getting tons of press! Although my name is on it, Mika did all of the work and then (weirdly) put my name on it. In any case, congrats Mika!
Not sure how much of this is a critique of the book versus a critique of the review: The argument that Internet is undermining the role of top-down or hierarchical knowledge production is a ridiculous one and is only one that you can make if you don't actually look at the structure of the Internet/web, etc. Preferential attachment and the creation of scale free networks show that these systems are incredibly hierarchical and incredibly "top down." The institutions aren't gone, you just aren't looking for them in their new form.
Hopefully by the time I want this, I won't need it any more.
"What we are attempting in our Global Education Program instead, is to institutionalize the use of Wikipedia in the classroom. Our goal is to explain to as many teachers as possible what the benefits of using Wikipedia of a teaching tool are. Students are much more motivated when they write for a global audience, instead of just writing for their professor."
"Starting with Miguel, Satyanath, and Sergenti (2004), a large literature has used rainfall variation as an instrument to study the impacts of income shocks on civil war and conflict. These studies argue that in agriculturally-dependent regions, negative rain shocks lower income levels, which in turn incites violence. This identiÂ…cation strategy relies on the assumption that rainfall shocks affect conflict only through their impacts on income."
Interesting blog post about the difficulty of chasing up old copyright licenses.
Local journalist notices my project with Charlie.
James Grimmelmann: "I think of it as a humanist blog; it's really about people's ambitions, weaknesses, and capacity to surprise."
This is a project that I'm working on.
