http://www.alevin.com/?p=348 Adina Levin's weblog. For conversation about books I've been reading, social software, and other stuff too. Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:27:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.alevin.com/?p=348&cpage=1#comment-234 Prentiss Riddle Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:14:50 +0000 http://www.alevin.com/?p=348#comment-234 Thanks for the summary! I've been thinking about getting Vaidhyanathan's book, but should I read it or one of Lawrence Lessig's first? The Future of Ideas is sitting on my shelf waiting for me to crack it... As for whether the techies and tech users are swing voters, maybe, but my guess is that we're more divided voters than voters for whom this can be the deciding issue. At least the techies. The downloaders could be a different, larger, less informed demographic. The challenge with the downloaders may be to make them care. If they can get their music via illicit but unstoppable channels, will they care about what the law says? An apathetic contingent presents the same kind of opportunity as a swing contingent, though. Are NRA members really swing voters? Or are they largely conservatives who might otherwise be unlikely to vote but can be mobilized over their issue when properly fired up? Because elections aren't so much won these days by convincing the undecided as by motivating the uninvolved. Thanks for the summary! I’ve been thinking about getting Vaidhyanathan’s book, but should I read it or one of Lawrence Lessig’s first? The Future of Ideas is sitting on my shelf waiting for me to crack it…
As for whether the techies and tech users are swing voters, maybe, but my guess is that we’re more divided voters than voters for whom this can be the deciding issue. At least the techies. The downloaders could be a different, larger, less informed demographic. The challenge with the downloaders may be to make them care. If they can get their music via illicit but unstoppable channels, will they care about what the law says?
An apathetic contingent presents the same kind of opportunity as a swing contingent, though. Are NRA members really swing voters? Or are they largely conservatives who might otherwise be unlikely to vote but can be mobilized over their issue when properly fired up? Because elections aren’t so much won these days by convincing the undecided as by motivating the uninvolved.

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