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      12 Sep 2008

      Free as in freedom

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      links: - Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame - Karl Fogel: I usually work on Free things - My name is Chris Messina, I'm an advocate for the Open Web txt: Thomas Jefferson - letter to Isaac MacPherson - 1813
      That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation.
      video: Changes - by LORCAN FINNEGAN on vimeo.com [vimeo=http://www.vimeo.com/986799]
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      8 Sep 2008

      The knowledge economy is sharing

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      He who receives an idea from me receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson
      links: - Knowledge economy - wikipedia - What Is the Knowledge Economy? - New Zealand Ministry of Economic development - A Primer on the Knowledge Economy - Centre for Strategic Economic Studies Victoria University - Knowledge economy - www.enterweb.org (ah, that 1994 web style...) video: Lars Ulrich of Metallica Thanks YouTube Fans [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl2qocBpM1U]
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      3 Sep 2008

      A new cultural economy

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      txt: Ars Electronica 2008 - A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property.
      After all, regardless of the perspective from which one approaches this issue—that of the Internet pirates, the inventors of a new information commons, the pioneers of a sharing economy or the apologists of the creative industries—one thing remains true: if knowledge and content actually are to be the new capital of postindustrial society, then they have to circulate and be accessible by all.
      video: Inflatable Gang - The Wrong Door - BBC Three [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyHzYMGm1ZQ]
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      3 Sep 2008

      Freeconomics: free changes everything?

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      txt: Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm - wired.com
      But he's not concerned about viability or walking into a "freeconomics" black hole. "Our premise is that there will of course be some students who spend nothing, they just consume the free book online, but we believe students are consumers and they will pay for convenience if the price is right," [Flat World Knowledge] says.
      links: - Flat World Knowledge - www.flatworldknowledge.com - Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - wired.com - The Rise of "Freeconomics" - www.thelongtail.com - Beware of Freeconomics - www.readwriteweb.com [blip.tv ?posts_id=776653&dest=-1]
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      25 Jun 2008

      More is different

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      txt: The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete
      The Petabyte Age is different because more is different. Kilobytes were stored on floppy disks. Megabytes were stored on hard disks. Terabytes were stored in disk arrays. Petabytes are stored in the cloud. As we moved along that progression, we went from the folder analogy to the file cabinet analogy to the library analogy to — well, at petabytes we ran out of organizational analogies. At the petabyte scale, information is not a matter of simple three- and four-dimensional taxonomy and order but of dimensionally agnostic statistics. It calls for an entirely different approach, one that requires us to lose the tether of data as something that can be visualized in its totality. It forces us to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later. For instance, Google conquered the advertising world with nothing more than applied mathematics. It didn't pretend to know anything about the culture and conventions of advertising — it just assumed that better data, with better analytical tools, would win the day. And Google was right.
      video: The Scientific Method [blip.tv ?posts_id=710649&dest=-1]
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      13 Jun 2008

      Stop, Google. Will you stop, Google?

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      txt: Is Google Making Us Stupid? - www.theatlantic.com
      Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial » [...] I’m haunted by that scene in 2001. What makes it so poignant, and so weird, is the computer’s emotional response to the disassembly of its mind: its despair as one circuit after another goes dark, its childlike pleading with the astronaut—“I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m afraid”—and its final reversion to what can only be called a state of innocence. HAL’s outpouring of feeling contrasts with the emotionlessness that characterizes the human figures in the film, who go about their business with an almost robotic efficiency. Their thoughts and actions feel scripted, as if they’re following the steps of an algorithm. In the world of 2001, people have become so machinelike that the most human character turns out to be a machine. That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.
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      10 Jun 2008

      Please Stand Up

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      via: Conscientious txt: Click here to disappear: thoughts on images and democracy
      Has democracy increased with the growth of the internet? Obviously not. It has diminished significantly. Why? Because the desire for public, democratic participation has been displaced onto consumer goods and services and dispersed into isolated individual speech. Whatever else it is, the internet is primarily an advertising medium. Access to images and information has certainly increased, but has this led to better informed citizens? No. It has led to more docile citizens, who spend more of their time in the collection and sorting of images and information (and in what Simon Schama has called the computer's "lazy democracy of significance") and less time on analysis, critical thinking, or real "socialising". Perhaps we need to find a word other than "democracy" to describe what's happening in our communications environment.
      txt: Digital Democracy and the New Age of Reason
      Franklin Roosevelt said that "Democracy is not a static thing." He was right. It is constantly changing; reinventing itself; expanding and retracting as the political environment warms and cools to its precepts. Digital democracy will be no different at its core, but it has an opportunity unlike any in the history of the world to bring people and ideas together. If we embrace this exciting digital world, our own democracy will be strengthened and civilization will surely embark on a new Age of Reason and a new era of individual freedom.
      video: Simpsons-The real slim shady - EminemGuy47 on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDd4Ly9cD4c]
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      8 Jun 2008

      Save the internet

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      txt: Net Neutrality 101 - www.savetheinternet.com
      Net Neutrality 101 When we log onto the Internet, we take lots of things for granted. We assume that we'll be able to access whatever Web site we want, whenever we want to go there. We assume that we can use any feature we like -- watching online video, listening to podcasts, searching, emailing, and instant messaging -- anytime we choose. We assume that we can attach devices like wireless routers, game controllers, or extra hard drives to make our online experience better. What makes all these assumptions possible is "Network Neutrality," the guiding principle that ensures the Internet remains free and unrestricted. Net Neutrality prevents the companies that control the wires bringing you the Internet from discriminating against content based on its ownership or source. But that could all change. The biggest cable and telephone companies would like to charge money for smooth access to Web sites, speed to run applications, and permission to plug in devices. These network giants believe they should be able to charge Web site operators, application providers, and device manufacturers for the right to use the network. Those who don't make a deal and pay up will experience discrimination: Their sites won't load as quickly, their applications and devices won't work as well. Without legal protection, consumers could find that a network operator has blocked the Web site of a competitor, or slowed it down so much that it's unusable. The network owners say they want a "tiered" Internet. If you pay to get in the top tier, your site and your service will run fast. If you don't, you'll be in the slow lane. What's the problem here? Discrimination: The Internet was designed as an open medium. The fundamental idea on the Internet since its inception is that every Web site, every feature, and every service should be treated without discrimination. That's how bloggers can compete with the CNN or USA Today for readers. That's how up-and-coming musicians can build underground audiences before they get their first top-40 single. That's why when you use a search engine, you see a hit list of the sites that are the closest match to your request -- not those who paid the most to reach you. Discrimination endangers our basic Internet freedoms. Double-dipping: Traditionally, network owners have built a business model by charging consumers for access. Now they want to charge you for access to the network, and then charge you again for the things you do while you're online. They may not charge you directly via pay-per-view Web sites. But they will charge all the service providers you use -- who will pass those costs along to you in the form of price hikes or new charges to view content. Stifling innovation: Net Neutrality ensures that innovators can start small and dream big about being the next EBay or Google without facing insurmountable hurdles. Unless we preserve Net Neutrality, startups and entrepreneurs will be muscled out of the marketplace by big corporations that pay for a top spot on the Web. On a tiered Internet controlled by the phone and cable companies, only their own content and services -- or those offered by corporate partners who pony up enough "protection money" -- will enjoy life in the fast lane. The End of the Internet? Make no mistake: The freewheeling Internet as we know it could very well become history. What does that mean? It means we could be heading toward a pay-per-view Internet where Web sites have fees. It means we may have to pay a network tax to run voice-over-the-Internet phones, use an advanced search engine, or chat via Instant Messenger. The next generation of magical new inventions will be shut out of the top-tier service level. Meanwhile the network owners will rake in even greater profits.
      video: Save the Internet! - SaveTheInternet on youtube.com [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt0XUocViE]
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      7 Jun 2008

      A new Cultural Economy

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      link: Ars Electronica 2008 - A New Cultural Economy: The Limits of Intellectual Property LINZ 04-09 september 2008 txt: Curatorial Statement (Joichi Ito)
      Computers and the Internet has lowered the cost of communication and the creation and distribution of information so much that many fundamental notions of organizations, economics and property have completely changed or require major upgrades. There is a new generation of youth across the globe which lead the charge into this changing world, modifying their basic behaviors to adapt to technology as it develops. Some businesses and artists have been able to keep up with these trends while other struggle and fail. The much slower to adapt legal system is being pushed to its limits with organizations on all sides of the issues trying very hard to adapt outdated laws. Most of the new behaviors and organizations creating value have a completely different notion property. Intellectual property, while key to the post-industrial revolution nature of the firm, is more of an encumbrance than an asset to the sharing oriented mode of creation now central to the Internet. This year, we will bring together the users, artists, businesses, policy makers and academics involved intentionally or beyond their control in this change to understand this new world and to try to adapt to it. Joichi Ito
      video: Company Picnic - The Meth Minute 39 - Channel Frederator on blip.tv [blip.tv ?posts_id=971429&dest=-1]
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      4 Jun 2008

      iGoogle art

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      link: iGoogle - Introducing artist themes for iGoogle Introducing artist themes for iGoogle: Now you can put the work of world-class artists and innovators on your personalized Google homepage. txt: Google: art - www.artworldsalon.com
      Most of the custom themes are from the hands and keypads of web designers and animators whose names few gallery-goers would recognize. Many are from Asia (but no Murakami here). Then there’s Coldplay, Beastie Boys, Lance Armstrong, and Mark Morris. Lesson? Though Google’s developers are clearly not trying to draw an all-inclusive map of global visual culture here, what if their selections are, in fact, faithful to what our society understands under the rubric of “artists”? Is Koons the best choice for this virtual Noah’s Ark?
      img: Lily Franky (リリー・フランキー)'s theme for iGoogle
      One of Japan's best-selling writers, Lily Franky is the author of the novel Tokyo Tower:Mom, Me and Sometimes Dad and the illustrated book Oden-kun, the subject of an animated series. He is also an illustrator and actor. www.lilyfranky.com
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