I love finding connections between the things I do, read, and/or participate in. I guess that's why I was excited to see the connections between the book I'm reading now and both of my upcoming classes. I'm currently reading Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (which I love). One of the first chapters was on things like Wikipedia and Open Source (entitled "The Peer Pioneers"), now I'm reading all about the benefits and perils of digital copyright and production in the "Prosumers" chapter. One of my classes we'll be talking a lot about Linux and I've already determined that my final paper will probably have something to do with open source (it really fascinates me!). I was especially fascinated by the IBM/Linux collaboration story and how well that worked. My other class is dealing with digital issues. I was happy to see both of these things merged in this book!
I'm pretty excited about going back to school now, I'm positve that both of my classes are going to great learning experiences for me. I'm also anxious to get through this book. I have a million other books stacked up and the reading has been slow over the holidays.
