From: Bruce Sterling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:17 PM
Subject: Viridian Note 00351: Decaying Media
Key concepts: intellectual property, planned obsolescence,
DVDs, Viridian Embrace Decay Principle
Attention Conservation Notice: It's really a Dead Media
Project note
Vietnam: Cyber-dissident jailed for 12 years
Reporters Without Borders today strongly condemned the
sentencing of cyber-dissident Nguyen Khac Toan to 12 years in
prison after a sham trial and called on justice minister Uong Chu
Luu to free him at once.
It said the prison term, handed down on 20
From: Oleg Kireev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.getto.rema.ru
politics. culture. anarcho-orientalism
Hakim Bey: Chaos and anarchy in Russian.
In the 1920s revolutionaries would expect the soon coming of worldwide
communism. In the 60s, however, their dreams reduced to mere creation of
resistance fronts
(The recent resignation of AOL boss Steve Case is a significant moment in
Dotcom History. AOL's merger with TimeWarner, early January 2000, is usually
described as the ultimate height of dotcommania--and the beginning of its
demise. Over the last year I have sporadically collected material about
Spam fighters to gather at MIT
Spam, long the arch nemesis of e-mail users, has become so pervasive
recently that a whole conference is being held to try to find better ways
to fight it. Researchers, industry experts and spam filter hackers are
descending on the Massachusetts Institute of
From: Jonathan Peizer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: The Great Software Debate: Technology and Ideology
The Great Software Debate: Technology and Ideology
By Jonathan Peizer
Open source software has intensified the ideological debate over
what technology to deploy in a given circumstance. The public
From: steve zeltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue Mar 25, 2003 01:24:10 Europe/Berlin
To: Labortech [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ICANN Shuts Down YellowTimes.Org In Censorship Move
Account for domain yellowtimes.org has been suspended
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TomPaine.com
http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/7458
An Allergic Reaction To The Bush Doctrine
George Soros is chairman of the Open Society Institute and of Soros Fund
Management.
Iraq is the first instance in which the Bush doctrine is being applied, and
it is provoking an allergic
THE TYPEWRITER OF THE ILLITERATE
Interview with János Sugár
By Geert Lovink
The Hungarian artist János Sugár produced a stunning short video piece
about the popular technology of the Kalashnikov machinegun. He used still
photos from mainstream news magazines that are displaying the world's
(via florian schneider)
please forward!
from the independant media studio from geneva where all different media
activists from all over the world are reporting life from the G8 protests
around evian/ genf / lausanne. the police is rioting the building right now.
please watch it and please
It is not only nettime-bold that died, it is the Internet as a whole, if we
have to believe Lawrence Lessig and this reporter Andrew Orlowski of The
Register. But is there any way to make a distinction between 'objective'
circumstances and mass psychology here? Is the collective psyche right? I
From: miltos manetas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.francescobonami.com
Francesco Bonami, the Director of the Venice Biennial, presents a NEEN DOGMA
of PAINTING !
We are proud to present: FRANCESCOBONAMI.COM
there was a time when paintings were pretty and fresh things to create, in
the same way
(A I am trying to catch up, I missed this hilarous news item about
WorldCom (soon-be-renamed-into MCI) winning a telecom contract in Iraq.
Stories about fundamentalist right supporting WorldCom in the mid-late
nineties have been around for a long time and plenty of evidence for this
can be found
(have a good laugh, but remember, all this also relates to you if you use
word documents... ciao, geert)
http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm
Microsoft Word bytes Tony Blair in the butt
Richard M. Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
June 30, 2003
Microsoft Word documents are notorious for
(posted to nettime with the permission of the author. /geert)
From: Sasha Costanza-Chock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WSIS, THE NEOLIBERAL AGENDA, AND COUNTERPROPOSALS FROM 'CIVIL SOCIETY'
Sasha Costanza-Chock
Presentation for OURmedia III, Barranquilla
[Conference info at:
From: Sasha Costanza-Chock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The following is background for a software project called coyBOTt; a dynamic
graphic representation of the relationship between brand rank and boycotts
(see www.coyBOTt.net).
Project URL: http://www.msdm.org.uk/strategies/outsourcing/
Background and
(the first spam jamboree digest was posted to nettime on january 21, 2003.
enjoy,
geert)
http://darkness.net.nz/archives/2003_01.html:
MARKETING 101
You see a handsome guy at a party. You go up to him and say, I'm
fantastic in bed.
-- That's Direct Marketing.
You're at a party with a bunch of
Now Available!
Citizen's Guide To The Airwaves
New America Foundation
July 1, 2003
The Citizen's Guide to the Airwaves is the New America Foundations
attempt to educate the public about the tremendous value, government
mismanagement, and impending giveaway of the nations airwaves - the most
(interesting report of a recent WSIS preparation meeting. i took out some
of the formal stuff. if you want to read the entire report go to:
http://www.germany.fsfeurope.org/projects/wsis/debriefing-paris.html.
/geert)
Debriefing on World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Intersessional
http://www.gregstorey.com/airbag/introvertster/
Introvertster is an online community that prevents stupid people and friends
from harrassing you online
You can use Introvertster to:
1. Avoid invites to chat, filter out annoying invitations for Meetup,
birthday parties, or after-hours get
One solution would be a seperate announcement list. Fibreculture, the
Australian network of new media researchers and artists, has its own
announcement list. It works quite well. On the main list, which is still
open, there are around 750 subscribers. The announcement list is closed (in
order to
From: Renee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CLAIM YOUR BLANKET WHILE SUPPLIES LAST:
SWAP MEET
For the Next 5 Minutes 4, De Geuzen is organizing a swap meet where
tactical traditions, such as buttons, flyers, T-shirts, pie throwing,
stencils and stickers can be displayed and generally talked about.
For
(posted to nettime-l with the permission of the authors. there are efforts
under way to get this campaign up and running. a lot of the communication
will in the first instance be coordinated via nettime-nl. more information
such as email addresses, lists and blogs will be available next week
(thanks to diplomatic efforts of deedee halleck and others there is a new
wsis declaration drafted by the groups that will organize parallel
counter-activities during the world summit on the information society in
geneva. the text--a compromise after lengthy debates--was written and
discussed
(usual outcome but shoking anyway. did anyone in geneva go to that
presentation of this report? geert)
PRIVACY INTERNATIONAL
MEDIA RELEASE
INTERNATIONAL CENSORSHIP STUDY FOREWARNS ESCALATION
OF INTERNET RESTRICTIONS
Corporations are now vying with governments to gag free speech and impede
From: gordana.novakovic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'Electronic Cruelty'
Gordana Novakovic
(presented at: 'user_mode' Symposium: Tate Modern, London; 2003;
'Consciousness Reframed 2003' Conference: CaiiA, University of Newport,
Newport; 2003; [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. Academic List; 2003)
Is it the form of
Arnold Unplugged
Greg Palast, October 4, 2003 - GNN.
It's hasta la vista to $9 billion if the Governator is selected
It's not what Arnold Schwarzenegger did to the girls a decade back that
should raise an eyebrow. According to a series of memoranda our office
obtained today, it's his dalliance
Insight through Connected Intelligence
http://www.circleid.com/
CircleID: collaborative intelligence hub for the Internet's core
infrastructure policies
CircleID Network is a unique collaborative hub that shares the control of
its content with the community it serves. Matters discussed here
Trail and Error in Internet Governance
ICANN, WSIS and the making of a global civil society.
Interview with Milton Mueller
By Geert Lovink
In 2002 MIT Press published Milton Mueller's Ruling the Root, one of the
first detailed investigations into the Internet domain name policies. In
it Mueller
From: Jonathan Peizer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Satisfying Donor and Non-Profit Objectives: The Quiet Revolution In
Non-Profit Capacity Support
By Jonathan Peizer
The economic downturn of the last three years once again served
to highlight the tenuous institutional capacity most non-profits are forced
Interview with Stephen Marshall
Guerrilla News Network's Digital Documentaries
By Geert Lovink
The political videos of Guerrilla News Network are a challenging affair,
both in terms of its content, aesthetics and distribution. Deeply hybrid,
GNN is crossing boundaries in such a professionaland
This posting of Politech Declan seems to representative of the U.S.
libertarains and academics' postion towards WSIS--at least I have not yet
heard other voices. This position seems to mix up national governments with
UN, as if they are one and the same. But even more remarkable is their
defense
World Summit on Information Society
Nettime Digest, no. 4 December 11, 2003
(I arrived in Geneva today. In between all activities I made this quick
digest. It also contains some 'old' info. Over the weekend I hope to
compile more actual information. For more 'live' information please visit
the
World Summit on Information Society
Nettime Digest, no. 5 December 18, 2003
1. Allan Liska: More Questions Than Answers
2. WSIS Report by Jo van der Spek
3. Richard Stallman on WSIS
4. OurMedia Clemencia Rodriguez reports
5. Wolfgang Kleinwächter (Telepolis, in German)
6. World
http://www.worldsummit2003.org/
How was the summit? A helpful list in case your friends (or any reporters)
ask you
Geneva/Berlin, 16 December 2003. Compiled by Rik Panganiban and Ralf
Bendrath.
The Good
ICT4D Exhibitions
It was quite inspiring seeing the hundreds and hundreds of great
Vittorio Bertola: WSIS: What Is It 'Really' All About?
http://www.circleid.com/article/411_0_1_0_C/
Until a few weeks ago, almost everyone in the Internet governance circus
seemed to ignore the very existence of WSIS. After it popped up on
international newspapers, however, things have been
Discipline Design: The Rise of Media Philosophy
An Email Exchange with Frank Hartmann (Vienna)
By Geert Lovink
Lately, in German speaking countries a 'media philosophy' debate has
unfolded. If you fear you missed something, don't worry. Unfortunately,
there is not much at stake. At least
World Summit on Information Society
Nettime Digest, no. 6 February 14, 2004
1. Global Forum on Internet Governance (March 25-26, NYC)
2. Experts' Round at ITU
3. ICC Paper on Clearing Up Confusion Over Internet Governance
4. re: ITU Internet Governance Workshop
5. ICANN's At Large Advisory
Grey Tuesday Civil Disobedience Planned February 24th Against Copyright
Cartel
DOWNHILL BATTLE (February 18, 2004) -- A coalition of websites will join
in an online protest to offer free downloads of a critically acclaimed
album that is being censored by a lawsuit threat from EMI Records. The
(Would it include Empire, Crowds and Power, Male Fantasies, a Foucault,
Ahrendt or even Deleuze? How much history (of science)? How much would
politically correct and which titles would really be useful? Geert)
http://www.techcentralstation.com/022704C.html
The Problem with Dead White Males
By
Dear nettimers,
since yesterday an english version of the German 'perlentaucher' site
(www.perlentaucher.de) is online. It was Janos Sugar would pointed me
to this great online resource a couple of years ago. It's daily updated
site/e-newsletter that summarizes the 'cultural pages' of German and
(the same people in toronto recently launched the www.civiblog.org
service. /geert)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Information War Intensifies as Unrest in Kyrgyzstan Continues
Special Coverage: Information War Intensifies as Unrest in Kyrgyzstan
Continues
- Motives Remain Unclear as
http://joi.ito.com/
18:00 JST =BB Joi's Diary - Media and Journalism - Sharing Economy
Yesterday, I had a meeting with some of the Italian Indymedia community
at a squat. In most countries squatters are considered criminals and
local law has very little tolerance for them. In Italy, the
(comments below on 'corporate responsabilty' report is somewhat
predictable as Mokhiber and Weissman have been calling for conviction
for corporate crime for years, without success as of yet, but
interesting nonetheless. see link for press release and table of
content. /geert)
(welcome to the flat world, techies and geeks. no fun, no choice? worth
reading! /geert)
For Some Techies, an Interminable Workday
By Rachel Konrad (AP)
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The traffic jam ended hours ago, the parking lot
is nearly empty and fluorescent lights are dimmed at PortalPlayer Inc.,
http://abc.go.com/primetime/xtremehome/
Sunday, May 22, 7/6c
Piestewa Family - SEASON FINALE
In a two-hour special, the design team builds a new home for the family
of a fallen Native American heroine killed in Iraq -- PFC Lori Piestewa
-- and constructs a center for Native American military
http://www.whatthehack.org/
Municipality wants to ban hacker gathering
The organisers of 'What the Hack', the 2005 edition of a series of
famous Dutch outdoor hacker conferences, were told that their conference
will not receive the municipal permit needed for the event to happen.
'What the Hack
On 9 Jan 2006, at 6:37 AM, Florian Cramer wrote:
I admire the perfect Carl Schmitt-ian (and by implication, Leo
Straussian) rhetoric of this manifesto: The rhetoric of the emergency
state, political friend-vs.-enemy antagonism, and its view of the
status
quo of democracy.
You mean admire
http://firstmonday.org/issues/special11_2/
Urban Screens: Discovering the potential of outdoor screens for urban
society
By Pieter Boeder and Mirjam Struppek
Introduction to First Monday, Special Issue #4: Urban Screens:
Discovering the potential of outdoor screens for urban society
Hi, has anyone tried this one out yet? I wonder how many nettimers keep
track what Citizenlab is doing and if you are, like me, also promoting
things like www.ngoinabox.org. /geert
---
OLIVER MOORE
Toronto Globe Mail
Monday, February 13, 2006
TORONTO -- More than fifteen years after the
(for me nicholas carr was one of the most interesting net critics of
the past season. carr's rough type blog is one of the best places if
you want to look for critical google watching. below you will find his
sobering statistics on what it means, in economic terms, to blog.
/geert)
(is this where tactical media is, right now, giving camcorders to US
soldiers, in the hope they will shoot interesting footage? i bet they
will. hard not to, i would say. anyone seen this film yet? /geert)
http://www.thewartapes.com/
In March 2004, just as the insurgent movement strengthened,
(While digging through the blogosphere I came across this German (?)
theory prose on Revenge of the Blog. Net Criticism in the Age of Web
2.0? /geert)
http://pitsch.wordpress.com/2006/04/04/snarkyness/
Snarkyness
It would be wonder if American bloggers wouldn?t develope their ?own?
jargon.
Supporting Iraqi Radio Journalists
Interview with Anja Wollenberg, Media in Cooperation Transition
(Berlin/Amman)
By Geert Lovink
Media in Cooperation Transition (MICT) is a Berlin-based organization
that was founded in late 2004 out of a radio program that was conducted
as Iraqi German
Hi all, just a few comments. I enjoyed the Montreal nettime online and
the tech worked out fine. It is really a shame that the announcement of
this (online) event came through only hours after the event ended. The
reason for this is simple. Ted and Felix should be thanked for their
massive
For the sake of clarity Geert are you putting yourself forward for
all the hard work involved in being part of the next stage in the
'rotation'. you are proposing or is this a prompting that others
rather than yourself should put themselves forward to take up this
burden ?
No, not at all.
Support Iraqi Bloggers
Interview with Cecile Landman
By Geert Lovink
Cecile Landman is a Dutch freelance investigative journalist, who
specializes in the facts behind the news. One of the areas she
researches and works in is Italy, a country she is passionate about.
Cecile has often said to me
The kiwis are writing a lot:
http://www.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/list/by/ISEA
ISEA by Proxy: Blog Collection 0.1
ISEA2006Rapporteur
http://www.eu.socialtext.net/isea2006/
media arts network [ma-net]
http://www.ma-net.org/isea.html North West UK
perspectives.
CRUMB Crisis Centre
From: Edward Shanken [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here are some more:
http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ICSummit2006/wiki/
And some additional individual blogs listed here:
http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ICSummit2006/wiki/pmwiki.php?
n=Main.BlogList
Edward Shanken
ISEA Rapporteur
Professor of
(report full of contradictions and yesterday's predictions. interesting
that the growing international dimension of the Internet is not
mentioned at all, except for a reference to mandarin. it is quite clear
which narrow group of wasp expertocracy the pew internet project
focused on here, and
From: somkiat tangnamo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Oct 1, 2006 2:54 AM
Subject: Statement of the Midnight University
Statement of the Midnight University
Opposing the Closure of Channels of Free Communication
Beginning on Friday September 29th, the Midnight University's website
has been
Dear nettimers,
as some of you will know this week IGF, the Internet Governance Forum
(http://www.intgovforum.org/) is on in Athens. It's the forum that
has been created by Kofi Annan after the the second World Summit on
the Internet Society, held in Tunis, November 2005. There are over
1200
to the MyCreativity newspaper
iTube, YouSpace, WeCreate
Geert Lovink Ned Rossiter
**Have We Been Creative Yet?**
Conferences on 'creative industries' have become a set feature in many
countries over the past few years. They usually consist of government
policy-makers, arts administrators, a minister
CYBERSALON @ THE DANA CENTRE
DIGITAL WORK CREATIVE MAPPING
The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington,
London SW7 5HE www.danacentre.org.uk
Date: March 07 - to be announced
Cost: Cost and booking details to be announced
Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester
(Old and new media, once seen by some as a jolly hybrid, are ready for
a fight. Watch this video: a clash between a 'journalist' and a
'shockblog' founder. Wikipedia reports that on 30 November 2006, a
senior journalist at The Daily Telegraph, Glenn Milne, had to be
restrained and escorted
Denationalized states and global assemblages
Interview with Saskia Sassen by Magnus Wennerhag
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2006-11-20-sassen-en.html
The liberal state has been hijacked for neoliberal agendas, says
Saskia Sassen in interview, and in some cases even for very modern
NUWeb: A project for Web 3.0: for the user, by the user, of the user!
Taiwan's National ChungCheng University announced, in a press
conference held in Taipei on December 27, a Web 3.0 project with a goal
to build a new Web that is for the user, by the user, and of the user.
Prof. Sun Wu, the
. routledge only owns the rights to
the english version. best, geert)
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2007-01-02-lovink-en.html
Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse
By Geert Lovink
An der rationalen Tiefe erkennt man den Radikalen; im Verlust der
rationalen Methode kündigt sich der Nihilismus
(dear nettimers, together with students of the masters-of-media blog at
the university of amsterdam i have been working on a wikipedia entry
about so-called shock logs or shock blogs. it is been an interesting
experience to see that our entry has been deleted on a number of
occasions because
a shocklog? Lankiveil 05:16, 21 January 2007 (UTC).
--
On 17 Jan 2007, at 11:54 AM, Geert Lovink wrote:
(dear nettimers, together with students of the masters-of-media blog at
the university of amsterdam i have been working on a wikipedia entry
about so-called shock logs or shock blogs
(after e-waste campaigns such as http://www.e-waste.ch/ this greenpeace
initiative, targetted at apple, seems to be the next level, focussed on
the production, and no longer on the recycling economy and the
management of the waste side of computer use. geert)
http://www.greenmyapple.org
We
Thanks, Pit.
Here an update. A while the entry deleted (again).
What is kind of amazing is the Anglo-Saxon language policing, which
term is and is not 'proper' English. An (English) wikipedia entry
cannot be valid if it based on 'foreign language' sources now about
that? Wikipedia is
Email exchange between Ken Wark and Geert Lovink
Held during the week after Jean Baudrillard passed away.
KW: You ask: what is radical sadness? That's an
excellent question, and Jean poses it to us, so it's a
good place to start. I have certainly felt a sadness
since I heard Jean had died
Dear nettimers,
I wonder how many of you follow the 'Kathy Sierra' case and what you
make of it. My first response was that this scandal was the final
chapter of the A-list, the presumed consensus culture of prominent
US-bloggers that got famous by linking to each other in the time when
blogging
Interview with Vito Campanelli about Web Aesthetics
By Geert Lovink
Ever since I worked with Matthew Fuller in 2004 on A Decade of Web
Design, I have been interested in the question if there is such a
thing as web aesthetics that could operate beyond the overheated
nineteen nineties Internet
This is what Rhizome made of it... Anyone at nettime has already seen
this show and would like to comment on it? Best, Geert
New Media History Refreshed
As with any vibrant art form, new media finds itself historicized
in multiple and evolving ways. Significant attention has been paid
to
http://www.networkcultures.org/geert/interview-with-andrew-ross/
Organic Intellectual Work
Interview with Andrew Ross
By Geert Lovink
Does cultural studies scholar and labour activist Andrew Ross need to
be introduced? I became familiar with the work of U.S. American
researcher of Scottish
Hacking Public Spaces in Vilnius
Politics of a new media space inside the Lietuva (soviet) cinema
Interview with Nomeda Gediminas Urbonas
By Geert Lovink
Ever since I met Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas in 1999, two contemporary artists
from Lithuania, they have been in search for an art space
The Palestinian-Israeli peace process and transnational issue networks:
The complicated place of the Israeli NGO.
By Richard Rogers and Anat Ben-David
The study investigates the potential consequences of the predominance of the
human rights frame in the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The human
From: Hernani Dimantas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(posted to nettime with the permission of the author. /geert)
Linkania - The Hyperconected Multitude
By Hernani Dimantas
I link therefore I'm. Edward Wilson 1
Thinking of citizenship in the web society is increasingly complex.
How do chaos and order
(Interesting report from the communication rights campaign coordinator
Se?n ? Siochr? who recently visited Tunisia, the host country for the
second world summit on the information society (wsis) that will take
place in Tunis, mid November. Next week a third and last preparatory
meeting
[from Fibreculture Journal - issue 5,
http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue5/index.html - special issue:
Multitudes, Creative Organisation and the Precarious Condition of New
Media Labour]
Dawn of the Organised Networks
Geert Lovink Ned Rossiter
At first glance the concept of organised
Dear all, over the past months or longer each time my postings to
nettime-l@bbs.thing.net ended up somewhere in a spam filter. Each time
I have been waiting for days to see if something would happen. Then I
have to send the posting to one of the moderators, Felix Stalder, who
then puts my
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Interview with Lisa Parks
Date: 1 November 2005 2:49:46 PM
To: nettime-l@bbs.thing.net
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Out There: Exploring Satellite Awareness
Interview with Lisa Parks
By Geert Lovink
http
may i add this interview with alain finkelkraut and a response by canadian
writer
edna paris? i found them on the just-watch list. i really like this debate on
nettime, however the (relative) absence of french postings slightly worries me.
maybe i am wrong. i understood there was and still is
From: Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The ?Campaign for Creativity? (C4C) is the undisputed winner of the
Worst EU Lobbying Award 2005! No less than 85% of the over 8000 people
that took part in the online voting identified C4C as the most
deceptive corporate lobby campaign
(posted to nettime with the permission of the author. /geert)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Abandoning Copyright: A Blessing for Artists, Art, and Society
By Joost Smiers
de Volkskrant, 26 November 2005
http://www.culturelink.org/news/members/2005/members2005-011.html
(English translation of original
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