Welcome to the website for “In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace.” Feel free to look around — I’m going to be keeping this blog rolling with various things Jeffersonian, and there are discussion forums focused on the issues raised in the book, and I’d like to hear what you have to say (registration’s free, and takes about 2 minutes), or any comments you have about the site (See “Contact,” on the left of the screen).

One of the nice things about going around and giving talks about the book is that listeners offer up some good ideas about candidates for the “moose” for the Net. I was somewhat unsatisfied with my own choice — Wikipedia — in the book, and with good reason: though it is a good candidate for something “dazzling” on the Net (in the way that the moose was dazzling to those in the Old World), it doesn’t have the same “we need new thinking about things” quality that a good Moose should have. Of all the candidates I’ve seen so far, I think Larry Lessig had the best version, here. Well worth watching –