Interview with Ken Jordan

ASN: Reinventing Social Networks Interview with Ken Jordan By Geert Lovink Mid 2003 a wave of excitement over something called the Planetwork conference in San Francisco reached me. Apparently an alternative and innovative attempt was under way to redefine the Internet, a medium so much plagued

Alan N. Shapiro: Star Trek Technologies-Technologies of Disappearance

From: Alan Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Out now: Alan Shapiro, Star Trek--Technologies of Disappearance (Avinus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2004--in English) http://www.avinus.de/html/demnachst.html http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3930064162/qid=1079184400/sr=2-1/ref= sr_aps_prod_1_1/028-85

ine poppe: a letter from madrid

(posted with permission of the author /geert) From: Ine Poppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A story i wrote for my friends: The Reina Sophia Museum ( with the great Picasso's) had bought expensive flights for us, which didn't offer you a meal - in economy class: glass water 2 euro&#

Marion von Osten: email interview with Brian Holmes

Fwd with permission from: Marion von Osten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The Spaces of a Cultural Question" E-mail interview with Brian Holmes by Marion von Osten in preparation of "Atelier EUROPA. A small post-fordistic drama." opening at 2nd of April 2004 in the Munich Kunstverein. Marion: You are e

Jo van der Spek, diary from Baghdad

Full Moon in Baghdad Jo van der Spek, for http:///www.radioreedflute.net It is 23' past midnight, the last day (8th of April) has brought more fighting and more tension in every house. The streets of baghdad are getting more and more empty, especially when the sun is gone, and the full moon has ta

Germany's federal data protection officer demands law to define control of RFID tags

From: padeluun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Germany's federal data protection officer demands law to define control of RFID tags. The German federal data protection officer Peter Schaar has demanded a law to define control of RFID tags in an interview with the German magazine "Focus", scheduled to

Race and Cyberspace: Interview with Lisa Nakamura

Talking Race and Cyberspace Interview with Lisa Nakamura By Geert Lovink I met Internet scholar Lisa Nakamura on a conference in Oslo, late 2001, where she showed how techno-utopian dreams reproduced racist patterns. Her analysis was of a shocking normality because it, once again, proved how

More Notes--Day 3: WIPO Databases and Broadcasting

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also available at http://www.public-domain.org/?q=node/view/41. Scroll way down for the committee's final recommendations, as captured by Wendy's on-the-fly editing. A compilation of all three days is at http://www.public-domain.org/?q=node/view/42 and http://www.eff.org

Google buys Japanese painting of Google screenshot

(latest news: Google bought the painting for around $5000). see: http://www.exonemo.com/NP/indexE.html Reality Turns "Virtual" in Real-Time!? "Natural Process (NP)" is an installation that consists of exonemo's first-ever pictorial work, "A web page," and a surrounding system. "A web page," t

LAUNCH of INTERNET GOVERNANCE PROJECT

From: Hans Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> === Announcing the Launch of the Internet Governance Project www.InternetGovernance.org

Barry Steinhardt's RFID statement

(posted to nettime with the agreement of the author /geert) From: Barry Steinhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> STATEMENT OF BARRY STEINHARDT DIRECTOR TECHNOLOGY AND LIBERTY PROJECT AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION ON RFID TAGS Before the Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee

"Internet meltdown"

(an 'emergency' conference is organized in LA... Is it that bad? Should I turn into a professional optimist if Internet apocalypses are being taught out of the LAX vicinity? Mark Davis wrote a nice book about that topic. Geert) http://www.pfir.org/meltdown PFIR Conference An

Andy Oram: Getting U.S. Universal Service to Work

(Hi, I added U.S. in the title because Andy is referring to the USA, not to the 'universe' or this planet in particular. Universal access mean access within the border of one nation. /geert) From: Andy Oram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5217 Getting Univ

From Porto Alegre to Cyberspace (Aliza Dichter)

From: Aliza Dichter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.ourmedianet.org/om2004 OM/NM IV from Porto Alegre to cyberspace... More than 175 people from at least 20 different countries gathered in Porto Alegre for the OURMedia/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/NossosMeios* IV International Conference. There were presentations,

Internet Commons Congress Debrief (Seth Johnson)

From: Seth Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.internationalunity.org/ Internet Commons Congress Debrief (Practical Aspect) Hello! The gathering at the Internet Commons Congress this March was successful in many ways. The following analysis will give us a good sense of its results. This is

confused euro muslims (via b. sterling)

excellent comment of bruce: "The Net is a tool for globalization. EVERYBODY's globalization. We're undergoing a Clash of Globalizations." http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/040802fa_fact "The Internet provides confused young Muslims in Europe with a virtual community. Those who cannot ada

Interview with Jeanette Hofmann

Open Ends: Civil Society and Internet Governance Interview with German policy expert, Jeanette Hofmann By Geert Lovink Berlin-based researcher Jeanette Hofmann is a key player when it comes to German and European Internet policy. Late 2000 she briefly reached international media fame when she got

Re: A 'licensing fee' for GNU/Linux?

re Foundation. There are actually more one them: http://www.fsfeurope.org (Europe) http://fsf.org.in/ (India) http://www.fsf.ca/ (Canada) http://www.gnu.org (USA) OSI = Open Society Institute, HQ of Soros Foundations and a variety of programs in New York. http://www.osi.org Geert # distrib

what is going on, on nettime?

what moves people these days? I think that's a more interesting--and urgent--question than the old issue of 'censoring' nn or mez. Yours, Geert From: Alan Sondheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: soft_skinned_space <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [-empyre-] wh

for nettime

-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: for nettime Date: Thursday, 22. June 2006 13:19 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Geert, this sent me Keiko Sei and asked me to post it on nettime, what do you think? sorry to bother you, all the best Michael Bielicky

new words in wikipedia (Modified by Geert Lovink)

(posted to nettime-l with the permission of Steve Cisler) I was thinking about the rejection of shocklog when I read this in the current Economist. It uses a term new to me 'plutonomy' and I looked it up on Google: lots of stuff since the two economists coined it in 2005, but not in wikipedia. It

welcome nettimers to the institute of network cultures

(dear nettimers, with a bit of pride, here it is... /geert) http://www.networkcultures.org Introducing the Institute of Network Cultures Based within the Hogeschool of Amsterdam (HvA) Founded by Geert Lovink Producer: Sabine Niederer The Institute of Network Cultures (INC), which was set up in

interview with Jill Magid

Surveillance, Performance, Self-Surveillance Interview with Jill Magid By Geert Lovink Illustrated version on www.networkcultures.org US-American, Amsterdam-based artist Jill Magid was a 'must see' at the 2004 Liverpool Biennial (www.biennial.com). Her work fitted in tightly

Re: Reflections on America after the election

(this txt might be relevant for the nettime discussion. /geert) From: Culture Jammers Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jammers, It wasn't the media. It wasn't the youth. It wasn't the work of Karl Rove or the "ignorant" American heartland. Bush is back. And the reaso

Re: ITU Proposal to Change IP Address Distribution meet

(O la la. Now it's getting serious. ICANN warns the UN! Also read Michael Froomkin's comments below. /Geert) No role for UN in ICANN Simon Hayes The Australian IT Section NOVEMBER 16, 2004 http://australianit.news.com.au/common/print/0,7208,11393890%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html THE glo

(amsterdam) ascii evicted, again

From: decoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wednesday 24th of november, at 07:00 in the morning, almost in secret, officers of the police-station s'Graveshandeplein broke open the door of ASCII on the Wibautstraat 7 to evict them. At about 11:00 members of the internet-collective were called by an employee of

Iran: fiive webloggers jailed

From: RSF.Internet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IRAN Five webloggers jailed Reporters Without Borders has strongly protested against the Iran's relentless efforts to stifle free expression online after the arrest of five webloggers in less than two months, the latest on 28 November 2004. "The government

content theft

(interesting concept... content theft. anyone who has any experience with the legal aspect of this? best, geert) From: Google Alert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Latest results from Google Alert Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 01:05:53 + *** New! Copyscape finds

Bill Thompson: Dump the World Wide Web

From: Open Democracy (via [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Happy Christmas! (and, by the way: Dump the World Wide Web!) As 2004 ends www.openDemocracy.net presents a gloriously radical assault on the web's lost decade. Bill Thompson argues that the black hole of online publishing needs a fresh start, a new m

Re: Bill Thompson: Dump the World Wide Web

Florian Cramer wrote: > Geert, what interests me is why you posted this article. It seems to me > that you weren't necessarily thrilled by Thompson's technological vision, > but more by the apocalyptic rhetoric of doing away with the web, right? Yes, you are right. But what st

Re: Working on article <...>

a, yes), which become difficult to deconstruct in realtime. There is no 'rational' answer to the diffuse fear for foreigners, migrants, unemployment, terrorism, interest rates rise, etc. So perhaps it's time for a remake of psycho analysis combined with mass psychology, b

Future of the Internet

Now that we're about to explore the ten years of webdesign, here in Amsterdam, others are looking ten years ahead. Geert BTW. There is no live streaming available at Decade of Webdesign. The first day, Friday, is sold out, there are still some ticket for the Saturday session. Audio-video

?I work here, but I am cool.? (Interview with Alan Liu)

'I work here, but I am cool.' Interview with Alan Liu By Geert Lovink Good books not just tell, they create history. In my case this happened to Alan Liu's The Laws of Cool, subtitled Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information. Ever since I found it in a New York bookstor

for those who attend n5m4: swap meet

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

call for a campaign to save amsterdams free media

during the next five minutes festival. /geert) From: "David Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Help Amsterdam Free Media" campaign. Over recent months there have been many discussions, naturally in Dutch, of the progressive destruction of Amsterdam's unique legacy of communi

HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH FOR THE INTERNET? (Oxford Internet Institute)

From: "Enquiries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HOW MUCH IS ENOUGH FOR THE INTERNET? 'While the battle for digital access is being won in Britain, government and business now face a struggle to convince everyone that the Internet is worth using,' concludes Professor Richard Rose of the Oxford Internet In

WSIS? WE SEIZE!

during the next five minutes conference last week in amsterdam. there is a lot more to said about this. the main stumbling block was how to frame the free-of-communication-freedom-of-movement demand into the larger picture. anyone who would like to say more about this? geert) WSIS? WE SEIZE! Over the

STUDY FOREWARNS ESCALATION OF INTERNET RESTRICTIONS

(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

Gordana Novakovic: Electronic Cruelty

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

review of George Monbiot - The Age of Consent

Do we know what we want? Review of George Monbiot, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order, London: Flamingo, 2003 (published in the US by The New Press, early 2004). By Geert Lovink No doubt the times they're a-changing when internal strategic debates of the 'anti glo

wsis digest no.1

World Summit on Information Society Nettime Digest, no. 1, October 1, 2003 0. BBC: Sharp Divisions at Preperation Meeting 1. ITU press release 2. AMARC: Community media groups call for empowerment agenda at WSIS 3. Mosaic newsletter 4. Tunisia and WSIS 5. Monika Ermert: Dog fight over World Summi

Negroponte: not crazy enough

Negroponte: Tough times? Go crazy - Wired News Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab and Ireland's Media Lab Europe, dismisses any notion that R&D labs should focus on conservative ideas with short-term payoffs. In fact, Negroponte notes that the biggest criticism from backers is that

While Californians vote... Arnold Unplugged (Greg Palast)

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 wi

open source software--a comparative study

The Open Society Institute has released A Guide to Institutional Repository Software , by Raym Crow. The guide compares five programs, all OAI-compliant and all open-source. It includes a detailed comparison

wsis digest no. 2

World Summit on Information Society Nettime Digest, no. 2, October 24, 2003 (alternative counter activities gather at http://www.geneva03.net) 0. Tough issues face Information Society summit 1. World Web Summit Worries Journalists 2. Unions Want Employment Issues on Agenda 3. Temporary Cy

Wim Nijenhuis: A Cloud of Dark Knowledge (thesis summary)

read Dutch: I will post the table of contents and how to order the book to nettime-nl. Geert PS. There are two texts by Wim Nijenhuis (in English) in the nettime-l archive: Dwelling in Cyberspace http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9909/msg5.html Eating Brasil http

about Cicrle ID

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 ar

Interview with Milton Mueller

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 Mu

Info on HighNoon--remote online project during WSIS

High | Noon call by geneva03 initiative! 1 Towards HIGHNOON In recent years media activism has evolved globally from local pirate radios, video activist groups and paper zines into complex networks of alliances that use ICT to bridge the physical gap in txt, visual and sonic media, as well as thos

Jonathan Peizer: The Quiet Revolution In Non-Profit Capacity Support

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 forc

Interview with Stephen Marshall (Guerrilla News Network)

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 professiona

ICANN or UN? (Declan)

ICANN. Interesting politics. Ciao, Geert (on the train to Geneva) -- From: "Declan McCullagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 2:13 AM Subject: [Politech] U.N./ITU convenes world Internet summit this week in Geneva [fs] The aptl

wsis digest no. 4

ion please visit the http://www.dailysummit.net/ blog and www.geneva03.org for counter summit updates. Geert) - Reports from We Seize! by Stefan Merten (Oekonux) - Report of Hans Klein/Georgia Tech - Global media struggle to define 'freedom' - Radio Non Grata forced off the air - Nations Ch

wsis digest no. 5

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 Summit

how was the summit? a helpful list in case your friends ask you

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 exhibitio

Vittorio Bertola: WSIS: What Is It 'Really' All About?

Vittorio Bertola: WSIS: What Is It 'Really' All About? 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 chan

world social forum digest

with me. I am in particular interested in discussion papers, such as the one from Peter Waterman. /geert) 1. New Digitised System for Translation 2. Dialogues on the Knowledge Society Workshop 3. Democratization of Information with a Focus on Libraries 4. Networking the Free Media (Ciranda) 5

Wolfgang Schirmacher on Net Culture

appraisal of the herd mentality in humans retains its validity even under present conditions in the Internet. Internet critics Geert Lovink and Pit Schulz [www.fiveminutes.net] see in it the workings of a "multi-cultural mass conformity, full of micro-practices and management of the self.

Steven Clift's WSIS speech: Democratic Evolution or Virtual Civil War?

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven Clift) Happy New Year. Below is my speech from Geneva where I shared a panel at the WSIS with the Foreign Minister of Greece, George Papandreou, Nicholas Negroponte, and Stephen Coleman from Oxford among others. As the media hype wagon continues to roar on the use

esther dyson: "let the people rule" (aspen vs. geneva)

http://www.edventure.com/conversation/article.cfm?Counter=367986 The Accountable Net by Esther Dyson Talk of Internet governance is in the air. The recent United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society, held in Geneva, issued a statement saying that "authority for Internet-rela

Media Philosophy: An Email Exchange with Frank Hartmann

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

have you also missed the Internet-Free Day?

http://www.globalideasbank.org/internet-free-day/html/index.html (thanx to Mieke Gerritzen for fwd.) The Global Ideas Bank, the primary website for new ideas to improve society (what we call social inventions), is promoting Sunday January 25th 2004 as the fourth International I

wsis digest no. 6

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 Committ

Euro Manifesto to Support Minority Community Media

From: "eslube" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.multicultural.net/manifesto/index.htm A EUROPEAN MANIFESTO to support and to underline the importance of minority community media In the member states of the European Union there are thousands of minority community media initiatives, involving tens of

tomorrow: grey tuesday

"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 ac

The State of Networking (with Florian Schneider)

Notes on the State of Networking By Geert Lovink and Florian Schneider February 2004 (Written for the free theory paper Make World #4, printed in 10,000 copies and distributed at the Neuro-Networking in Europe-festival in Munich. URL: www.makeworlds.org). No longer the society, the political

what would be nettime's reading list?

(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

Review of Doug Aitken's book, by Peter Lunenfeld

http://www.calendarlive.com/books/bookreview/cl-bk- lunenfeld16apr16,0,6075568.htmlstory?coll=cl-bookreview The order of things By Peter Lunenfeld April 16, 2006 'Broken Screen: Expanding the Image, Breaking the Narrative: 26 Conversations With Doug Aitken' Edited by Noel Daniel D.A.P/Distribut

blogonomics according to carr

(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)

"free upload, free download" (Euro Mayday Parade 006)

(May 1 is approaching, nettimers in Eurostan, time to hit the streets! Glad to see that "free upload, free download" has been included in the colorful list of demands. Let's pray for nice weather. Enjoy. /Geert) http://www.euromayday.org/ Party, action & protest for social

THE WAR TAPES

(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

definition of snarkyness

(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)

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 Iraq

Re: report_on_NNA

very well. Maybe not as lively discussion channels, but the problems that nettime-l has are actually shared by many lists. Regards, Geert # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural

Re: report_on_NNA

> 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

Re: nettime as idea

se down nettime-l@bbs.thing.net and take another address, in close collaboration with The Thing. It would at least temporarily take away some of spam problems. Yours, Geert # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative

Support Iraqi Bloggers-Interview with Cecile Landman (Streamtime)

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

Yahoo! clear worst offender in censorship tests on search engines

(I heard from some in mainland China that the situation for ordinary Internet users has indeed deteriorated compared to one or two years ago. The question remains: is the censorship somehow still marginal or indeed already substantial? Or have we passed that point? /Geert) http://www.rsf.org

Adrian Lucas: Network-Subject Duality

(This is a short text that Adrian Lucas, a consultant on risk aggregation in Zuerich sent me. I thought it was interesting enough to forward it to nettime. Adrian gave permission to send it to the list. Geert) Network-Subject Duality By Adrian Lucas What the wave-particle duality is to

Out-Cooperating the Empire? - Exchange with Christoph Spehr

http://www.networkcultures.org/geert/out-cooperating-the-empire- exchange-with-christoph-spehr/ Out-Cooperating the Empire? Exchange between Geert Lovink and Christoph Spehr on Creative Labour and the Hybrid Work of Cooperation I have just finished an exchange with Christoph Spehr, the

Steve Cisler in search for ISEA 2006 blogs

://cheapmeatdreamsandacorns.blogspot.com/ What other blog are covering ISEA? geert # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and

more from steve cisler on isea conference streaming

> Streaming of ISEA main talks > open Quicktime player and put in this url: > rtsp://130.65.200.17/zero1.sdp I tried it and it > works > > higher bandwidth: > rtsp://130.65.200.17/zero1-hq.sdp > > S. Sassen talks at 4 pm California time. > > www.socialtext.net/isea2006/index.cgi for the > rapport

re: Steve Cisler in search for ISEA 2006 blogs

> 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

Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin

Critique of Ranking and Listing Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin By Geert Lovink Since the early nineties I have been engaged in email-based mailinglists. In the beginning it was a tool for to communicate and exchange texts and arguments with a growing group of people. I hesitate to use the

Pew: Experts assess Future of Internet

, and how predictable the outcome then becomes... thanks to soenke for fwding. /geert) The Pew Internet Project announces the release of its second report on The Future of the Internet. The press release is below; for the full report, please visit: http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/

re: Important Thai education site closed

> 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 >

Internet and the Intellectuals

h speaking developing world. It is now becoming a central part of public administration, business operations, telecommunications, news dissemination and entertainment." Geert -- http://info.intgovforum.org/wksp28.php Intellectuals in the IGF policy process: From knowledge to result

iTube, YouSpace, WeCreate

(The MyCreativity convention on creative industries research in Amsterdam is on today and tomorrow. Below the intro that Ned Rossiter and I wrote for a free newspaper that was printed on this occasion in a circulation of 10.000. More on www.networkcultures.org/mycreativity. Geert) Intro to the

"in association with nettime.org"

> CYBERSALON @ THE DANA CENTRE > DIGITAL WORK & CREATIVE MAPPING > The Science Museum's Dana Centre, 165 Queen's Gate, South Kensington, > London SW7 5HE > Date: March 07 - to be announced > Cost: Cost and booking details to be announced > Nearest tubes: South Kensington/Gloucester Road > > A one

old and new media: the fight is on

restrained and escorted from the stage of Melbourne's Crown Casino Palladium Ballroom, after he attacked and berated another journalist during the prestigious Walkley journalism awards." Thanks to Josephine Starrs for the pointer. Geert) -- http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006

Interview with Saskia Sassen by Magnus Wennerhag

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 despoti

Web 3.0: for the user, by the user, of the user

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 le

blogging, the nihilist impulse

. 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 Nihilism

shocklogs wikipedia entry

at happens next. regards, geert) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocklog A shocklog is a weblog that usually contains controversial, critical, surprising and/or appalling content. The term shocklog is a combination of the words shock and weblog. In the past shock has been combined with other

Re: shocklogs wikipedia entry

ly English? Interesting to see how Larry Singer's Citizendium is putting pressure on Wikipedia to get rid of 'neologisms' and barbarian non-Anglo knowledge... Best, Geert -- An editor has nominated the article Shocklog for deletion, under the Articles for deletion process. We appr

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(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

Re: shocklogs wikipedia entry

lobbying': http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml? ml_video=81454&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml _runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=%2Fmotherload%2F%3Fml_video%3D81 454&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true h

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"call for blogging code of conduct"

it. But this is also old news, at least for nettimers. So what other interpretations are there? Shocklogs finally arriving in the USA? An Iraq war that escalates within US borders, four years late? Geert -- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6502643.stm Call for blogging code of conduct Kath

Interview with Vito Campanelli about Web Aesthetics

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

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