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There will be more from Jeff Howe’s general session on crowdsourcing later, but as he was signing books afterward, I asked him who ASAE & The Center members should be paying attention to if they wanted to know what was coming in the web/collaborative space. Here’s his response:

Clay Shirky

The NYU adjunct professor and consultant/speaker/writer is author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Here’s a post from the short-lived blog devoted to the release of the book. In it, Shirky explains how the TV sitcom has saved the world. No kidding. And here’s a link to an amazing keynote he gave, it’s three years old but just as relevant today, maybe more so.

Yochai Benkler

For those with an academic bent, you can access all of Benkler’s technical articles at www.benkler.org. Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard.

Jonathon Zittrain

Benkler’s partner in crime at Harvard, he’s the author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Here’s a blog post with one significant point made in The Future.


John Palfrey

Coauthor of Born Digital, and colleague of Benkler and Zittrain at Harvard. Access his blog here.