A first hand view on e-democracy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9RqHEAxN9g

Robert Putnam’s latest work on ethnic diversity and social capital, which shows a negative correlation between the two, has been published: Putnam, R.D. (2007) “E Pluribus Unum: Diversity and Community in the Twenty-first Century. The 2006 Joahn Skytte Prize Lecture”, Scandinavian Political Studies, 30(2):137-174. The study presents results based on the data from the 2000 [...]

Andrew Keen’s new book: The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet Is Killing Our Culture is now been published both in the US and the UK. To have a sample of his thought provoking thesis, which takes a critical approach to the Web 2.0 revolution, you can also check out a talk he has [...]