This is well worth 15 minutes of your time: radical theorist-open source evangelist-graphic novelist Douglas Rushkoff discusses why the system of money which arose in the late middle ages is essentially broken for the Internet age. It's a pretty freewheeling rant and suffers for that occasionally (no musical innovation on the last 20 years? Er, hello?Meshuggah anyone, or Burial? And has he heard all the world's music in that time? Anyway, sore point.)

But for all that, it's good to hear a different commentary on Web 2.0 - an alternative to the Utopians and the professionally weary refuseniks.