[NetBehaviour] Google users hit by mail blackout.
Google users hit by mail blackout. Google has apologised for the outage that hit business and consumer users of its popular e-mail service. The GMail service went offline at 0930 GMT and, Google claims, was unavailable to all for approximately two and a half hours. But anecdotal evidence suggests it was out of action for many users for about four hours - one of the longest downtimes ever suffered by Google. More than 113 million people use Google mail worldwide, according to comScore. In a statement posted on its official Google blog it said: We're really sorry about this, and we did do everything to restore access as soon as we could.. It said its engineers were still investigating the root cause of the problem. more... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7907583.stm ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Bloggers can be nailed for views.
Bloggers can be nailed for views. NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old blogger's case could forever change the ground rules of blogging. Bloggers may no longer express their uninhibited views on everything under the sun, for the Supreme Court said they may face libel and even prosecution for the blog content. It will no longer be safe to start a blog and invite others to register their raunchy, caustic and even abusive comments on an issue while seeking protection behind the disclaimer --- views expressed on the blog are that of the writers. This chilling warning emerged as a Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justice P Sathasivam refused to protect a 19-year-old Kerala boy, who had started a community on Orkut against Shiv Sena, from protection against summons received from a Maharashtra court on a criminal case filed against him. Petitioner Ajith D had started a community on Orkut against Shiv Sena. In this community, there were several posts and discussions by anonymous persons who alleged that Shiv Sena was trying to divide the country on region and caste basis. Reacting to these posts, the Shiv Sena youth wing's state secretary registered a criminal complaint at Thane police station in August 2008 based on which FIR was registered against Ajith under Sections 506 and 295A pertaining to hurting public sentiment. After getting anticipatory bail from Kerala HC, Ajith moved the Supreme Court through counsel Jogy Scaria seeking quashing of the criminal complaint on the ground that the blog contents were restricted to communication within the community and did not have defamation value. He also pleaded that there was threat to his life if he appeared in a Maharashtra court. A computer science student, Ajith pleaded that the comments made on the blog were mere exercise of their fundamental right to freedom of expression and speech and could not be treated as an offence by police. more... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Bloggers-can-be-nailed-for-views/articleshow/4178823.cms ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] boy oh boy cott
Hi Mark all, Very interesting discussion in many ways... Now the maelstrom has passed. We have had a little time to reflect upon what was discussed on the list over a week ago on this subject. I do not particularly want to bring back the discussion where anyone is being aligned as being an anti-jew, which I see as a tactic to win an argument. I just wanted to pull a few things together, in respect of highlighting some of the issues that I personally felt were not dealt with - the fallout. The main issue that I want to put forward which has always concerned me and it tends to happen often is, how the very people who are involved in raising and exploring (openly) important and difficult questions; can be tainted by it at the same time. I have had this experience myself in the past and it is one of those things which also, at that time can be unnerving and frustrating. Usually, when the situation itself does not allow a more contextual or relational understanding of who one is or where one is really coming from, as an individual - this can happen a lot with email discussions. Many things can be left unconsidered as well left unfinished. Which of course can more reflect the nature of list experience, yet it can also leave shades of misinformation and unquestoned asssumptions lingering in our memories that represent a more distorted view of things. I 'personally' think that it is important for people to feel comfortable in knowing that they are able to express their own views and values on this list, whatever they may be. Even if they do not fit into the main concerns or purpose of the list's general interests or (assumed) shared ideals. This surely creates healthy controversies for all to explore, allowing shifts and potential space, for reasonings which 'many' may not experience (usually) in our everyday contexts. It can be messy and some of it may not be fully formed, but it is fresh and it is real, even if it is truncated through a digital, networked protocol such as email. Secondly, I think when debating with each other on here, it may be useful (for me anyway it works) to consider that there is the choice and option to take into account that we are not actually the whole sum of what we discuss. I do not always agree with many things discussed on here, but I do take that extra bit of time to see where they are coming by researching about them outside of the list. This shows that, what an individual discusses may not necessarily represent them (literally) as a whole. By observing where some one is coming from outside of this list, we gather information that informs us more in how we can proceed regarding the subject and the dialogue. When people listen to you don't you know it means a lot, 'Cos you've got to work so hard for everything you've got. Novelty - Joy Division. marc But hey, who doesn't like Monty Python? Bob Thanks, Bob, I'm glad to provide a little entertainment and I humbly bow to anyone else in the audience who hasn't already pegged me with a tomato. And apologies out to Bob and Rob for misreading Rob where I should have read Bob on that particular truth bit. I've loaded a glove with a brick and slapped myself silly for all of you. Actually, I don't know why I didn't think of it before but this whole thing reminds me of the criticism of Hans Haacke for his Shapolsky Project in the 80s. Actually, folks are still debating it. I'm guessing that there would be a similar break down of interpretations from folks on the list as there were to Haacke's piece from critics in the 80's. I'd like to read thoughts... or maybe not? here's a relevant paragraph from http://www.ccca.ca/c/writing/h/hassan/hass002t.html Leo Steinberg's text is not only an elaborate demonstration of an obvious failure to recognize the integrity of social / political art, but contains a perverse attack against Haacke. When reviewing the Real-Time Social Systems, he wonders why Haacke had to choose Shapolsky to illustrate a real estate network in New York City slums. He questions, 'Did this exposé of a stereotypical Jewish landlord express the old gut reaction that resents a non-Aryan presence among holders of wealth or was this the updated anti-Semitism of the New Left?', and writes from a completely cynical position when he flatly declares that, 'The artist knows perfectly well that Mobil will not be induced to retreat from its South African market.' This is totally unlike Deutsche who locates the concepts of specificity and explains why Haacke selected the Shapolsky group as the subject for his work: in 1971 they held the largest concentration of properties in the Lower East Side and Harlem of any group owner. Thus Haacke's reasons were economic rather than racial. Deutsche' s insightful text articulately probes the temporal and relative nature of meaning within works of art to affirm the potential 'education and transformation of the viewer' that
[NetBehaviour] Xexoxial Editions.
Xexoxial Editions. The continuing story of the margins of creativity Books by mIEKAL aND, Bruce Andrews, Lee Ballentine, Charles Bernstein, Jake Berry, Hakim Bey, Ann Bogle, David Cole, jwcurry Mark Laba, Bill DiMichele, Lloyd Dunn, KS Ernst, Peter Ganick, Gazaliel, Michael Helsem, Crag Hill, Geof Huth, Karl Kempton, Alison Knowles, Joel Lipman, Malok, Musicmaster, Sheila Murphy, George Myers, Jr., Rea Nikonova, Harry Polkinhorn, Bern Porter, Keith Rahmmings, Dan Raphael, Laurie Schneider, Joe Schwind, Serge Segay, Charles Stein, Elizabeth Was, Hannah Weiner, Peter Lamborn Wilson... http://www.xexoxial.org/ ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] Guy Debord: The Game of War event...
For our first club night of 2009, we will be featuring these wonderful games: For our first club night of 2009, we will be featuring these wonderful games: Guy Debord: The Game of War TerrorBull Games: War on Terror - the board game Brian Train: Red Guard Come along play the revolution! Tuesday 3rd March 2009 06:30pm - 10:30pm The FleaPit 49 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG http://www.classwargames.net http://www.thefleapit.com http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=53227417301 TerrorBull Games: War on Terror - the board game Brian Train: Red Guard Come along play the revolution! Tuesday 3rd March 2009 06:30pm - 10:30pm The FleaPit 49 Columbia Road, London E2 7RG http://www.classwargames.net http://www.thefleapit.com http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=53227417301 ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
Re: [NetBehaviour] Ada Lovelace Day.
Hi Kathryn, Thanks for your post. It got me thinking about how important the visibility of other women's work is to me in my daily doings. There is then something about a lot of this works' basis in networks that makes me feel much more connected to it than I might be to work of other women artists. in the meantime I have been thinking about... Annie Abrahams - for one of my favourite early netart works, Separation http://bram.org/separation - and for her networked performances including the multiple series with panoplie http://aabrahams.wordpress.com Daphne Dragona - curatorial work with networked consciousness in the field of games art a - especially the amazing Homo Ludens Ludens at Laboral http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/05/homo-ludens-ludens-quick-conve.php and her work with Personal Cinema Aurea Harvey - for her part with Entropy8Zuper in early intimate networked performances http://entropy8zuper.org/wirefire and for Endless Forest, Tale of Tales's bucolic social screensaver http://tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest Mary Flanagan - for her energetic explorations as academic, educator, artist and programmer at the intersection of games, art and feminism and exploring collaborative approaches to thinking about values in http://www.valuesatplay.org/ Aileen Derieg - her writing about life in the Freie Szene in Linz on the Furtherfield blog http://blog.furtherfield.org/?q=blog/8 and translations of writing at the intersection of art, technolgy and social change. The De Geuzen crew - Renee Turner, Femke Snelting and Riek Sijbring - especially for their project Female Icons http://www.geuzen.org/female_icons/ Helen Varley Jamieson - for Upstage cyberformance platform http://upstage.org.nz/blog/ Maja Kalogera - for some great digital artworks, curating exhibitions and facilitating Upgrade in Zagreb http://www.wowm.org/site_v7/index.php Kate Southworth- her thinking on feminism/networks and her ongoing artistic collaboration with Patrick Simon with Glorius Ninth http://www.gloriousninth.net Ele Carpenter - http://www.elecarpenter.org.uk/ for tech inspired and facilitated participation with Open Source Embroidery, her curatorial project exploring artists practice that explores the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing. Kate Rich - her imaginative, sideways and wonderfully parasitical project, Feral Trade, for trading goods along social networks. She has constructed a live shipping database, The Feral Trade Courier, for a freight network running outside commercial systems. The database offers dedicated tracking of feral trade products in circulation, archives every shipment and generates freight documents on the fly. http://www.feraltrade.org/ Kale Brandon -For her part (with Kate Rich) in Cube Cola, the first open source soft drink http://sparror.cubecinema.com/cube/cola and (with Heath Bunting) in Border Xing Jess Loseby - her net art http://www.rssgallery.com/ and various contributary projects especially Angry Women - Disturb the Peace http://www.rssgallery.com/2006/12/01/angry-women-disturbthepeace/ Lucy Eyers - her work on the first Node.London season of media art http://nodel.org and the low-fi netart locator http://www.low-fi.org.uk and commissions Liza Haskel - early work in collaborative media art practices involving critical engagement in the politics of technology http://mediaartprojects.org.uk Francesca da Rimini/Gashgirl - early dirty cyberfeminism and current exploratory work on small media, soft ecologies http://www.sysx.org/gashgirl/ Hannah Higgins - her book Fluxus Experience - not strictly technological but so closely connected in my mind to a more connected and distributed art experience Lucy Lippard -for dematerialization of the art object, for offering precursory context for net art but mainly for articulating the tensions for women artists looking to work with parity in a patriarchal, market driven art world Susy Gablick - her book Conversations before the end of time (not overtly technological -but somehow contextual) Sadie Plant - her books 'Zeros and Ones' and though not strictly technological, her book 'The Most Radical Gesture' about Situationism seems relevant too Finally I just have to slip Bjork in there for all of her songs which are full of blips and bleeps and glitches and technical experimentations and for her video with Chris Cunningham - All is Full of Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjAoBKagWQA Of course there are lots of others and I am resisting the temptation to add in a list of honorary women (yes men!) Finally I am excited by the prospect of attending Eclectic Tech Carnival this year in September http://eclectictechcarnival.org/node/864 for a gathering of women interested in technology. It seems like a great thing. Perhaps you should come too:) love and peace Ruth -Original Message- From: Katharine Norman kathar...@stayconscious.com Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed
[NetBehaviour] last days and building notes Odyssey
last days and building notes Odyssey http://www.alansondheim.org/ lastdays images C:\Users\alan\AppData\Roaming\SecondLife I thought it was fine but we need to have the coordinates, how to get there, your sponsorship, etc. I put a couple (3) almost invisible prims in the sand, they're hardly there... I need a blurb in .txt form to add to the chat stuff we had yesterday so I can send to the lists. I've got 37 pngs up already of the installation - you can use any of them - the other I don't have But I can come back in an hour or two - that would be great! I'll do that, but I doubt I'll hear from her - I wrote her twice recently and nothing... Tried the teleport - it made as if to move me but I stayed in the same place. Hi - the piece is finished - extensively changed textures etc. - thanks Are you there? Could you take my objects? I have to teach today - This messes me up, - at the moment I'm teaching and can't remove my ob- jects - I also have a documentary being done on the site Thursday ess for me - I can't reply or do anything now I saw that - it really fucks me up at this point. I don't have time to copy this show and I've put so much damn work into it. If you can, could you take copies of the stuff and pass it to me? I'm teaching this afternoon and can't deal with this until later and anyone can come in and just erase the whole thing This really isn't right I'm pasting in the dialog with - but someone put up a piece directly cutting into my installation - do you think I can return it? now this isn't right - I don't have time to remove things and anyone can make them disappear. It was only for a couple of days. I'm teaching in ten minutes and can't deal with this and by the time I do they'll likely be gone. That would be a huge huge relierf...,no I've been here everry day - I wrote you - you must not have gotten it No problem and thank you so much, maybe write I really appreciate this - I just want to work on the documentation properly as well. I'm sorry to h that's not it ... wners are and it's clotting up the upper regions of what I did - I need to video this - please ask these people to take this down at least for a week, thanks yes vertically - there's a huge piece which cuts into mine this must have been put up in the window she left open I might be able to return it but that seems bad mannered do you think I should return it? I don't know what to do it's builder and owner right next to the installation cutting into it in the sky - it's huge. I can teleport you if you want yes Hi - look up - give me a few minuts, I'm demoing the installation - back soon ok sorry - No it's not happening to me. Perhaps I should give you the piece if I haven't already? But I think I have - Things are always strange like that - you have three chairs at about 700m above the installation in Odyssey - which I quite like; and I talked there.. but I didn't hink you put them there deliberately? if you want to speak with him Let me know when the meeting is, but please try and get to reply? The is 3/4 missing - only one image on the grounds itself and large gaps in the particle pro- jection thing. Given that, I want to experiment - nothing dirty - haven't heard from you in a while, back later - done again again are you around? did you get my messages? Whatever it is, I changed the installation somewhat radically I'm more concerned at the moment, what we might do - we only have three days or so dum de dum dum ... it would help if you could change the texture of the sim to flat black I do. will install his piece again and I think might put his up as well. Once that happens it becomes difficult to change things back - and I had to work on it Documented yes but it will be really difficult to copy all of this - some of it isn't mine, some of it goes 1km in the air, beneath the ground, etc. etc. I haven't been able to at least with the tools/ select tool/edit command (or the others for that matter) somehow we'd have to copy the whole group of parcels - ?? I'm here - I think might have set that because the permissions were loose = hold on If I go to world about land objects refresh I'm getting 230 in the parcel I'm in which is zoneE Julu Twine (other me of course) has additional 7 ZoneF I have 757 total ZoneB 138 ZoneD 139 Zone1 524 That seems to be about it If I had the chance and the time and space and some idea of the length of time it would be up But there are maybe 1400 objects, it would be hard to do that I can't figure out how to save these as they are. I'd have to reconstruct from the prims themselves and it would be a different installation. the thing is now whether to let this thing go or try to preserve the space, what we were talking about earlier today someone would have to have the money of course well the problem of history is a big issue nothing lasts forever but it would be nice to keep this work and your work and gaz' work up at the moment, and the whole space is nicely configured for that
