Description: Reporting from the heart of this "free culture" movement, journalist and activist Bollier provides the first comprehensive history of the attempt by a global brigade of techies, lawyers, artists, and geeks of all stripes to create a digital republic committed to freedom and innovation.
Review Quotes: There is a transformation taking place in the way people create, organize and think about culture, declares public-policy analyst Bollier (Brand Name Bullies, 2005, etc.). He pins this transformation on the Internet, and particularly on "Web 2.0," which is more focused on conversation and community than its predecessor. Bollier believes that efforts to share software, upload videos and tend to Friendster pages are forging a new commons in the 19th-century sense of the term: a resource shared and managed by all its users.... [T]he author tells a good and important story, one that is likely to gain more relevance as time goes on and Web 2.0 has a greater impact on />
A good book for specialists and advocates....