Spent the past few days contributing a chapter for a forthcoming book on Emergent Democracy. My new mantra:
Its time to put the demo back in democracy. One link at a time.
Its been refreshing to focus on a long piece, especially one that reflects upon posts from the past. But for all those people who write books for a living, I have to hand it to you. Compared to writing for blogs, articles and business -- its really a hard chore. And I really have to admire authors that can put energy into both blogs and books.
What's worse, you don't get the immeadiate gratification that comes from posts. I still have the editing process to work through and then they have to do all that printing and distribution stuff.
I contributed to a book before, on bandwidth trading, but found and entirely new experience this time. Being able to source from past blog posts was a tremendous accelerator as well as a rewarding journey back in time. If time permitted, I would have posted sections for feedback during the process to vet things out. Better yet, write openly in wiki. Perhaps next time.
