Clay Shirky's mail distribution list for his writings on networks, economics, and culture, and pointers to other interesting work. Frequency is roughly every other week.

Excerpts: The first issue is devoted to the question of communities, audiences, and scale: what effects can we expect to see from growth in the size of online groups, given that the internet supports both broadcast and communal patterns of communication? ... What follows is ... an exploration of one basic but important effect: Audiences scale, communities don't. ... What shape will the blogosphere take? The blogosphere is already resolving itself into a power law distribution ... [which] recreates all the difficulties the original web users had in locating content ... What shape will the blogosphere take? Will blogdex and daypop be enough, or will readers flock towards trusted meta-blogs that filter and organize, or will other models of collaborative filtering arise?