Produsage - The Wealth of Networks

I just finished reading the Wealth of Networks by Benkler that Vanessa assigned to us, and I am exhausted (Vanessa is trying to kill us. . .).

However, after reading it I must say that I can more easily answer this weeks prompt: How might the concept of produsage be applied in your life (personal and/or professional) as it stands today?

Until this class I did not consider myself in the produsage category. I was in fact a consumer of information, a bystander. There are several reasons for this:
1. I didn't think I had a unique perspective about anything
2. I didn't really feel strongly about any subject that motivated me to get involved.
3. The fear factor of someone saying Duh. . .didn't you read such and such. . .
4. Time. Not enough. . .
5. I like to ponder information, and pondering and blogging don't necessarily come together at the same time.

However I must admit that I am quite enjoying this blogging. While I am sure very very very few people will read what I have to say (I feel like I am on that almost invisible thread - Benkler Article: sites interconnected)and thus on my own I am free to develop my own voice knowing that I can work on this for quite some time and then when I feel I am ready I will shoot the link to my blog to some of my friends and family.

And do note that I will be starting my Internship on the 19th of this month and then maybe I will have a lot more to blog about.

One other note: Professionaly speaking I wish we had this technology 20 years ago. We constantly went to developers for advice about product issues (I worked in a call center) and I am sure if the developers had blogs they could have spit a whole of of information at us that we could have commented on that would have made us much more effective for our customers. I can see this being a huge help moving forward.