The Crowd – a new roundtable at PBS Digital Nation

I’m moderating a conversation between the smartest people I know thinking about open source, crowd-sourcing, the hive, and digital mob behavior over at http://pbsdigitalnation.org It has already evolved into a mind-expanding, passionate, no-holds-barred conversation.

You are all invited to participate along with:

Danah Boyd – Social Media Researcher, Microsoft Research; Fellow, Berkman Center of Internet and Society, co-author, Hanging Out, Messing Around and Geeking Out. http://danah.org

Amy Bruckman – Associate Professor, Electronic Learning Communities, Georgia Institute of Technology http://www.cc.gatech.edu/elc/index.shtml

Nicholas Carr – author, The Big Switch and the forthcoming The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains . http://roughtype.com

Kevin Kelly – Senior Maverick, Wired magzine. Author, Out of Control, and What Technology Wants – coming in October http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/

Mark Pesce – co-inventor of VRML, founder, FutureSt social web consultancy, author, Share This Book (upcoming) http://www.sharethiscourse.org/

Clay Shirky – NYU Interactive Telecommunications Programm, author Here Comes Everybody http://www.shirky.com/

RU Sirius – co-founder, Mondo2000, Editor, H+ magazine http://www.hplusmagazine.com/

Sherry Turkle – Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, author, The Second Self, Simulations and Its Discontents, and Alone Together (forthcoming) http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/techself/

Jimmy Wales – Co-founder, Wikipedia. Trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home