David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and consultant who spends a lot of time exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. He is co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group, co-founder of Public Knowledge, and was founding editor of Onthecommons.org. He now blogs at Bollier.org. A Senior Fellow at the Norman Lear Center, Bollier is the author of twelve books, including Brand Name Bullies and Silent Theft, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own and more recently, Think Like a Commoner:  A Short Introduction to the Commons.