For some time, I have been saying that conferences, as a format, suck and
should be discarded altogether - well, at least be sensibly curtailed.
Proof of concept seems that the format has now metastasied into an
entertainment/touristic formula, to witt, the e-amail I received today
(and many
Bwo Pranesh Prakash, Commons-Law list
Mon, 2 Jul 2007
(I did 'some' - p... - editing)
Dear All,
On Friday, June 29, 2007, GPL Version 3 was officially released.
Around ten days back, Bruce Perens published a really good article on
Technocrat, titled Clearing up anti-GPL3
.
Patrice Riemens, Hoeilaart, April 5, 2007
See on all this the article that triggered this post Le
Monde of April 5= , 2007: 3rd suicide of an employee
at the Chinon nuclear power plant since Augus= t 2006
(http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-891661,0.html)
(*) Nuclear energy
and to define and distinguish two
categories of e-voting. We do hope that the discussion will continue
inside ODIHR, and that what has come out of this study will translate
in new, additional directives.
QD translation by patrice riemens
# distributed via nettime: no commercial use without
Djursland is the rural community in Denmark that, upon being refused
ADSL connection by the big telecoms, embarked on setting up a WiFi
network of its own that subsequently turned into a model famous
worldwide. Bjarke Nielsen is Djursland founder and figurehaed ;-)
http://www.djurslands.net (in
Hi Mods,
According to Raul Sanchez (Multitudes) the autheors are Alex Foti and
Nicola Helvolt, and the original text is on:
http://listes.agora.eu.org/listinfo/radical-europe
But...
The Radical-europe Archives
You can get more information about this list.
Currently, there are no archives.
So
Hello nettilurkers,
Bwo of the Multitudes-journal list.
Source and Author not mentionned. I tried to Google it without result.
Author is probably Danish her/himself. Kindly advice if you know more.
Immo a most interesting and important article.
So fwded fyi.
And of course also posted to beat
(Bwo the india-gii wsfii lists)
*Cheap and green: biofuels for mobile phone networks
http://www.scidev.net/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=printarticleitemid=3421language=1
*Biofuels could soon be powering mobile phone networks
Abiose Adelaja
16 February 2007
Source: SciDev.Net
Mobile phone
bwo the HippiesfromHell list/Rhialto
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/02/04/scientology-fugitive-arrested/
Scientology Fugitive Arrested
By RU Sirius
February 4th, 2007
Keith Henson
On Friday, Arizona police arrested a 64-year-old man a fugitive since
2001 in a bizarre war that mixes free
Bwo the AsiaSource2 particiapants mailing list
Manila, 3 February 2007--Vista, Microsoft's newest operating system, could
trigger a deluge of E-waste in developing countries, Greenpeace warned
today.
The group argues that with Vista, more companies and individuals may feel
the need to
Courchevel is an upmarket ski resort in the French Northern Alps. Closest
thing in France to Aspen, though it's not as glamorous as Gstaad or st
Moritz in Zwitserland. It's somewhat doughty glitz has been revived of
late by the arrival of a commercially attractive, but socially somewhat
tricky
Couldn't close 2006 without some fine conspiracy text. But then the
conspiracy element is entirely rhetorical since none of what Fisk says is
so much a secret as a non-event (the neo-con ideology simply prescribes
that the past doesn't matter since it doesn't exist), and Saddam alive in
his
Last summer, there was an interesting article in Le Monde about yet
another bizare quirk in that strange French technoligico-political nexus.
State-financed and state-directed tech RD did give the French the
Minitel, Concorde, and the TGV, all of them a bit old-fashioned or
altogether outdated by
For the benevolence of expression and against the 'clash of
civilisation' discourse.
Against a commonly held belief, the clash of civilisations monicker
is not a descriptive, but a prescriptive statement.
Thinkers, university professors, publications that pretend to be
'modern', and
From yr trusted fwding department... ;-)
bwo the Multitudes-info list.
--
Make Everything NewA Project On Communism
Edited by Grant Watson, Gerrie van Noord Gavin Everall (2006)
Communism is routinely defined as defeated
http://19sep.blogspot.com/
This blog is intended to provide local news, media and perspective of
Thailand Coup Event on 19th September 2006 to the world. The band of
authors let all content to be licensed under Public Domain.
bwo chikay cinco, asiasource list.
# distributed via nettime: no
I liked this text very much, and not only because nettime was also born
somewhere on the fringes of a Venice Biennale a few eons ago. Since I
couldn't find it online, I did some digital monk(ey) work, and recopied
it. The magazine it comes from I cannot recommand enough. Become Ambonese!
as a
Sealand, a former gun platform on the North Sea just of the West coast
of England, featured prominently in fantasies about independent
micro-states (complete with passports and postage stamps). Somewhere in
the mid-nineties there was an attempt to recycle it as 'data haven',
Cryptonomicon
(In Holland, there have been a string of scandals recently with laptops
belonging to hi-ranking cops and top public prosecutors ending up in the
wrong hands with sensitive info on them. Maybe the Jarkhand rules are not
that ill-advised...)
bwo Fred Noronha/Bytesforall list
Laptop rules irk
(Bwo Prashan Nalsal/ the Sarai Commons-Law list)
Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams
By Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience Managing Editor
posted: 31 January 2006
10:17 pm ET
After 145 years, Western Union has quietly stopped sending telegrams.
On the company's web site, if you
(thanks to/bwo Teotonio de Souza/ Goa Research Net mailing list)
(my previous post, Jane Jacob's Obit, was thanks to/ bwo roger Keil and
the INURA mailing-list- sorry for late credit)
http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/000CB030.htm
Nepal: now that's
To follow up on Fred Noronha's post:
(Bwo the [arkitectindia] list / Anivar Aravind)
Reporters Without Borders/Reporters sans fronti=E8res
Press release
29 March 2006
Ban on DIY radio in Bihar state illustrates unfairness of broadcast law
Reporters Without Borders expressed dismay at the
(NB: usual 'ianal' diclaimer applies!)
M... My 'kits reactie' (that's Afrikaans) is that this merely reflects
Dutch 'copyright' law - basically French 'droit d'auteur'
law, afaik - which states that you cannot republish without permission
when you are a publisher yourself (not an
Strange, but I didn't see the EDT buffoons 'supporting' the rioting
Banlieues youths. Ah yes, they didn't have a 'programme'...
patrizio Dnooos! say NO to DDoS!
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:39:35PM -0800, lotu5 wrote:
//please forward widely//
We invite people from all over the world
TLAXCALA'S MANIFESTO
by the Translators of Tlaxcala
Las lenguas de Tlaxcala, por Juan Kalvellido
Tlaxcala, the network for linguistic diversity, was founded on December 2005 by
a
small group of cyberactivists who knew one another through Internet and
discovered
that they shared common
The MRAP (Mouvement contre le racisme et l'amitie entre les peuples), a
large and quite powerful French anti-racism watchdog, has lodged a
criminal complaint against Alain Finkelkraut for racism, incitation to
hatred, and incitation to violence. More details on: www.mrap.asso.fr/
#
My My, it's getting smokier and smokier in the Empire of the Middle.
===bwo Cyber-Society-Live list===
China's leaders launch smokeless war against internet and media dissent
* News deemed contrary to national interest is banned
* Party summit decides to target 'liberal elements'
Benjamin
To nettime on request
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Along with calling people names, Morlock, some
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statement - English version
As usual, an English version for those who don't read Dutch and for
Usual apps 4 X-post.
May be someone on this list knows how to salvage wwwxs4mail' sservice...
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For many
Polemics about 'commercial' vs ' non-commercial' always have this uncanny
ressemblance with discussions about what pornography exactly is, viz
'something that is next to impossible to define, yet is readily
recognizable when you see it'. As Rasmus has pointed out, most people know
quite well what
bwo HippiesfromHell discussion list
(my out to lunch commentary/rant is at the bottom)
http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/2120
CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST 2600 EDITOR
Posted 30 Nov 2004 05:43:23 UTC
In a move that came as somewhat of a surprise, the City of New York
dropped on Monday
Source: tech.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/arts/design/27iden.html
In the basement of the New Museum of Contemporary Art's temporary home in
Chelsea, a seemingly ironic invitation appears on a black-and-white label
next to a flat-screen computer:
The Status Project aims to aid those who seek change,
(bwo Vesna Manojlovic, with permission)
http://www.ripe.net/info/internet-management/itu-proposal-200410.html
ITU Proposal to Change IP Address Distribution
As part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) process, a
proposal has been made that could dramatically affect
(This is not meant as an overal review of Dan Hunter's article. I just
want to highlight a few points that stroke me...)
Dan Hunter's Culture War
(Download from: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=586463)
A very good and useful paper, immo, which has attracted some
From the BytesForAll list, with apologies for P XP!
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In Pakistan, Independence Day
A nice example of technology-time discontinuities...
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Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 19:01:59 +0800
Subject: [Goanet]Indian engineers
Re: The last Ivogram about the misadventures of Mohamed Sacirbey...
There was a quite extraordinary sequence of two evening programmes about
the never ending Sebrenica affair on the Dutch public TV channel NOS/Nova
yesterday and the day before yesterday. The full article (in Dutch) is at:
By the author of City of Quartz, and with apologes for X-posting
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Stunning overview of the vast and fast-growing global population of
informal workers living in large
If Adbusters are right in their contention, and I believe they are,
that the perversion to the US constitution that gave corporations the
rights of humyn being is the root of all evil, this could well be a
landmark decision.
http://www.arcataeye.com/top04/040524top02.shtml
City Council
Fans of Thomas Frank (or is it the other way round? ;-), rejoice! There is
really no end to capitalism's recuperative prowess:
-
Commes des Garcons Guerilla Store
The ever-inventive and playful Rei Kawakubo's latest probe into the
bleeding edge of the buying psyche.
With thanks to Paul Wouters.
Brazil Jails American Airlines Pilot Over Fingerprinting Snub
By LARRY ROHTER
Published: January 15, 2004
IO DE JANEIRO, Jan. 14 ??? An American Airlines pilot arriving in S??o
Paulo, Brazil's largest city, was jailed Wednesday after he protested new
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 03:12:02PM -0800, Sasha Costanza-Chock wrote:
[en / fr]
Geneva03 activities in Geneva during the World summit on information
society
(...)
Communiqué de presse
Geneva03
(...)
Cher(e) Sacha / Dear Sacha,
N'aurait-il pas mieux valu
Would it not have
Further comments by Benjamin Mako Hill fwed with permission...
(from the SummerSource list)
From: Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Summer Source List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SummerSource-L] [Fwd: European Commission publishes its
guide to OSS migration]
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003
Reposted from the excellent commons-law mailing list maintained by Sarai
(original post by Sunil Abraham)
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http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/08/04/1813224.shtml?tid=23
Monday August 04, 2003 - [ 06:09 PM GMT ]
Topic - GNU/Linux
- by Joe Barr -
Red Hat
From our great INURA-list forwarding carousel with the usual apologies...
greetz from deluged Bs As, p+D!
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Subject: Davos WEF, (No-)Live Report, part 2
Friends, back in Zurich after a successful meeting with UNESCO (more
about this in
Editorial in the New Left Review. Copyle/ifted from the Multitudes-Infos
list where it was send to by Emmanuel Videcoq. URL unknown, sorry.
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Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 13:54:05 +0100
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