Yochai "Penguin" Benkler vs Jason "Netscape" Calacanis
During his talk at the Wikimania conference this morning, Yochai Benkler criticized Weblogs Inc. founder Jason Calacanis, Yochai probably didn't know that Jason was listening in the audience. During the questions period, Jason got up and introduced himself, referring to himself as a fan of Benkler's work and noting that there really wasn't as much of a gap between them as Benkler might think. This is just a reality of today's online business world, he explained, just like there are paid firefighters and volunteer ones, yet both classes of firefighters do great work, regardless of getting paid or not.
Benkler acknowledged that this was all "tricky business." But what he disliked about Jason's actions was that he interpreted Jason's "attack" on Digg as generating a split between those who might be perceived as "the really useful people" (ie, those who get paid) and everyone else who participates as a volunteer.
Jason then wanted to respond but the session organizer cut it off, told him to "take it offline,"...
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