This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast.
I'll be at
Wiki X DC this Saturday (which may or may not interfere with getting a news cast out on Sunday). If you can spare some cash,
Podiobooks could really use the support to upgrade their servers right now.
Listener feedback is from Jonathan in response to my piece about being an autodidact. He recommends a
couple of
videos and
David Brin's blog.
The hacker word of the week this week is
fisking.
The feature this week is a somewhat rambling, speculative rant on the tragedy of the pseudocommons. This stems from a lot of recent attention on
commons as economic and governance models, including the Nobel prize winning work of
Elinor Ostrom and David E. Williams. The title is in fact a riff on Hardin's
original critique of the commons. In discussing the ethos animating digital commons, I suggest the Free Software Foundation exceeds the core values by insisting on
stronger notions of liberty. James Boyle's
book does an excellent job describing the more obvious threat of enclosure. My pondering the pseudocommons is similar in some regards to my thoughts on
the true burden of forking. Nicholas Carr pegs on extreme
example of the form.
View the
detailed show notes online.