There were three main points Jenkins wanted to focus on through out his book. He looks at the relationships between three concepts-media convergence, participatory culture, and collective intelligence. Media convergence just means that content is now able to intertwine itself among many different devices. No longer do we need a "book" to read a book. Participatory culture looks at how media producers and consumers now have different roles, where instead of looking at the two as separates, think of them as one; but following a new set of "rules". And finally, collective intelligence, looking at how the power of a collection of information from different sources from all over the globe. I don't really see how these point connect with Weinberger, where he talks about different types of new organizational techniques.
You keyed in on the main points here, but be careful about falling prey to the black box fallacy when you say all convergence is about media, because it's not. Jenkins says, "Convergence occurs within the brains of individual consumers and through social interactions with others" (3). This is a key point of Jenkins, that it's NOT just the technology. Also, you might want to read a few other blogs just to see how others made the connections between W and J (and if you disagree with them, cool, but worth reading at least). Thanks.
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