Joints After Midnight & Rants Policy control policy walled gardensJonathan Zittrain has an important op ed up on Harvard’s site , and I hope all of you will go read it. It sums up many of the points that I hit as I write here at Searchblog, and that will enliven my next book What We Hath Wrought. We need some angry nerds. MORE >>

Managing staff who participate in social networks. This list also includes policies called; Staff blogging policies, enterprise social network guidelines, Employee Blogging Policies, Staff engagement in online communities, and so on. Kinda cool that companies are now posting internal policies publicly. MORE >>

In networks, cooperation trumps collaboration. As we shift to a networked economy, our organizational frameworks have to change. While collaboration inside the company and with partners may have worked in a market economy, cooperation amongst a greater variety of network actors is now necessary. It is more like a social network. MORE >>

As our Work Literacy Ning site (2008) is in danger of getting bumped off the Net due to Ning’s new pricing policy , I will post some of the key articles here so we don’t lose them. Introduction to Social Networking. Note you can learn more about the concept of ego-centric vs object-centric networks here ). MORE >>

Early in Lessig’s “ Code v2 ,” which at some point this week I hope to review in full, Lessig compares the early campus networks of two famous educational institutions. Once registered, all interactions with the network are monitored and identified to a particular machine. MORE >>