Grass roots book editing

J.D. Lasica, the Bay Area-based senior editor at USC's Online Journalism Review, has put online the introduction and first four chapters of the book he is writing and asked for volunteers to weigh in with their editing suggestions. The book, Darknet: Remixing the Future of Movies, Music and Television, focuses on the digital media revolution and "explores the idea that digital technologies are empowering people to create, reuse and reinvent media."

For the book-in-progress he has interviewed, among others, Jack Valenti, Larry Lessig, John Perry Barlow, Roger McGuinn, Stewart Alsop, Ian Clarke, Cory Doctorow "and several pirates, DJs, and DMCA violators." Lasica's blog is New Media Musings.