Sivacracy.net and Siva Vaidhyanathan

After hearing him speak in May, I've been "high" on Siva, who just joined the University of Virginia faculty (from NYU) and who has been appointed the first fellow of the Institute for the Future of the Book (IF:Book). He runs a group blog called Sivacracy that focuses on copyright, culture, free culture, democracy and more.  IF:Book noted that:

Siva is one of just a handful of writers to have leveled a consistent and coherent critique of Google's expansionist policies, arguing not from the usual kneejerk copyright conservatism that has dominated the debate but from a broader cultural and historical perspective: what does it mean for one company to control so much of the world's knowledge?

Although he is not a technologist, he thinks about and write on topics that are important to us.  If you've not heard of him, take a quick peek at his blog (which is not being hosted by IF:Book).