People are always asking me how much a work of net art is worth, and I always
reply that you can't measure its value in an exchange economy.
However, based on the following report, I'd say jodi's window-spewing,
download-hiding http://oss.jodi.org would have nabbed a cool $50,000 in the
days
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From the I Told You So Department, two recent attacks on the democratic
foundations of the Internet echo last March's nettime conversation
about the end of the Internet.
Enda,
I like the spirit of Morlock's response--but since I'm not so keen on my kids
banging each other with toilet roll inserts, let me add some pragmatic advice.
One antidote to the marketing frenzy over computers for preschoolers is Lowell
Monke's Charlotte's Webpage
Thanks for this thoughtful response, Phil. It's hard for me to disagree
with someone who is so plugged into Internet2--and says such nice things
about me. But I'll do my best, with the help of Google and the EFF's
Seth Schoen.
(1) the broadcast flag only applies to over-the-air broadcasts
Benjamin,
You're right, American consumer culture is largely self-referential. But
that doesn't mean that all non-consumer repurposing of that culture is
stuck in the same groove. Remixes like John Oswald's take on Michael
Jackson, Pat O'Neill's Humphrey Bogart, and Brian Provinciano's Grand
Internet2: Orchestrating the End of the Internet?
Anyone who wonders how the Internet will die will find one possible
scenario in the recent decision by the Internet2 consortium to bring
Hollywood into the design process for our next-generation Internet.
Hollywood is on a roll. In a fraction
