While this isn’t a new video, it’s a great post for this blog. I love Clay Shirky, he’s an amazing speaker! And speaking of love, Shirky makes a great point, the Perl is an act of love. The reason it’s so successful is because millions of people love Perl.

I wanted to share this very interesting video lecture by Yochai Benkler with you.

In this lecture, Yochai talks about the shift in power in the core economic activities to the hands of the population at large - all because of the computer. He talks about how open source is very visible in the software world because it’s easy to see - but that this actually happens throughout the web.

This is just a bit from the beginning of the talk - instead of summarizing it all for you, I’m going to let you listen for yourself