Be sure to check out Ross Dawson’s podcast of his recent ABC radio interview: Trends in the Living Networks: Interview on MySpace and social media Yesterday I was interviewed on ABC Radio National’s Counterpoint program about MySpace and social media, together with Sebastian Chan, the web services manager for Powerhouse Museum – the interview is… Continue reading
Date archives "September 2006"
lonelygirl15
Link: apophenia: lonelygirl15 I have been finding over the past year that, as “crowdsourcing” and web 2.0 start up projects begin to proliferate, investors and venture capitalists are starting to look for people who can successfully “start a fire”, or create a “buzz”. The “buzz” that you create doesn’t even have to be directly related… Continue reading
Management of immaterial values in quadruple
I was attended to read a post on TechCrunch on a move of the attention economy by a new service, I tried to understand the purpose of it and made it to this blogpost. We all know that management of immaterial values is really fascinating, or at least, that’s what I think. Now think about… Continue reading
Reporting from Amsterdam
This is the second P2P seminar tour after the first one in April this year which took me to Louvain and Cambridge. This time, it’s mostly Amsterdam, with sidetrips to Copenhagen and Antwerp. My first impression is that the maturity of the western countries, in terms of P2P uptake, has dramatically increased in just 6… Continue reading
Free from copyright. No rights reserved. A new kind of book by John Heron 2006.
Dear Friends, I’ve launched a new book “Participatory Spirituality: A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion” at www.lulu.com/content/374864. It is an experimental foray into participatory publishing, using the facilities provided by Bob Young’s Lulu Press Inc. Young, of course, has been very influential in the development of Linux and open source software. Lulu Press is his latest… Continue reading
CommunityWiki: WikiMusic
Link: CommunityWiki: WikiMusic. The idea here is collaborative asynchronous recording of music, wherin you record your parts to a music editing software file, then upload it for others to add to. Each version of the file can be left online, so that people can revert back to older versions. I this is like wiki for… Continue reading
The Emergence of Diavlogging
For those of us without wetware portals jacked into cyberspace, a definition may be in order: Diavlog = dia + v + ((we)b)log, where dia = between, v = video, and blog = what this forum you are currently reading is called, and which all of us know and love already, right? When the written… Continue reading
What You Should Know About Copyright
[orginally posted at Social Synergy, via BoingBoing] Why should you become literate about the way that copyright works? Think about the amount of media in the form of books, movies, music, video games, software products, and television shows that you consume in a given month or week. Each one of these products has a license… Continue reading
Praxis publish ‘Cyberwar, Netwar and the Revolution in Military Affairs’
Greg Walton announces the following on his excellent blog: I’m very excited by Praxis‘ soon-to-be published book on Cyberwar, Netwar, and RMA: The end of the Cold War ushered in a new phase of global security in which new threats and challenges emanate from non-conventional sources, and in which the weapons and means to prosecute… Continue reading
Irrepressible
http://www.irrepressible.info/ is a campaign by Amnesty International to stop internet repression in countries like China, Vietnam, Tunisia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Syria, where people are persecuted and imprisoned for self-expression. Irrepressible gives three suggested outlets for participation: 1. Sign our pledge on Internet freedom to call on all governments and companies to ensure the Internet… Continue reading
Wikipedia’s Jimbo Wales Takes A Stand Against Chinese Censporship
[see: Social Synergy Odd Wiki Bliki: InternetCensorship] The Observer reports that Wikipedia:Jimmy_Wales has challenged Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft to stand up to Chinese government censorship. The article Wikipedia:Blocking_of_Wikipedia_in_mainland_China explains that Wikipedia was likeley blocked in China due to articles about Taiwanese independence, Falun Gong and Tiananmen Square protests (see: Wikipedia:Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989). The Observer reports: Wales will… Continue reading
The Open Library project
OpenLibrary The OpenLibrary website was created by the InternetArchive to demonstrate a way that books can be represented online. The vision is to create free web access to important book collections from around the world. Books are scanned and then offered in an easy-to-use interface for free reading online. If they’re in the public domain,… Continue reading
SmartMobs: Social interactions in online virtual environments
(via Smartmobs) This Nature article says “according to a study of social interactions in one online world, some quirks of how people interact in the real world have survived the digital transition.While that may put a dampener on visions of online liberation, it’s good news for social scientists. They say that, if social rules map… Continue reading
A private library system controlled by a single corporation?
We previously mentioned the concerns of the U.S. library community about Google’s project to massively digitize public domain books. The digitizing is welcome, but the secret nature of the contracts with some libraries, and attending non-disclosure clauses, are worrisome. In the words of Brewster Kahle: “We want a public library system in the digital age,… Continue reading
Route 66: Creative Commons movie
Reblogged from here: “Route 66: An American Bad Dream is an independent documentary film starring three Germans road tripping across the legendary US highway. What makes this film notable is that they released the film under the Creative commons license.”
Troubles at Digg
Alexander Galloway points out in his book Protocol, that the new power is now in the design and the algorhythms of the social software we are using, as these determines the ground rules of our interaction. A recent story about Digg, shows a conflict about the influence of top users, who sometimes collude, and a… Continue reading