Ok, this is a bit of self-promotion, but I just had an article published that I think some of my fellow dailykos community members might find interesting.
The article,
A Lever Long Enough:
Value-driven enterprise in the networked information economy,
explores what I think is an underreported new way that the Internet can, and is, facilitating significant social and political change.
Everyone's heard of Open Source software. But fewer people are aware that open source is only one narrow implementation of a whole new way of doing things, that has profound implications for society.
In the article, I discuss how values-driven enterprises--that is, projects whose purpose is not making a profit, but making a difference--can harness this new, network-enabled means of production, to create a significant, post-capitalist alternative to traditional market/corporate economics.
I'd love to hear feedback from this community.
(Incidentally, the article is published under a Creative Commons license.)