Jonathan Peizer: Realizing The Promise of Open Source in the Non-Profit Sector

[redistributed with author's permission] Realizing The Promise of Open Source in the Non-Profit Sector Issues to Address Every so often, a technology or protocol emerges that is touted as a "magic bullet" either by the company or consortium promoting it or a core group of enthusiasts

Re: Your question

act possible that "new media theory" happens everywhere else but not within > the claustrophobic spaces of events and writings thus headlined? is this a rhetorical question? < http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9704/msg00011.html > t byfield on Sun, 6 A

Re: Request to Nettime to be part of DISTRIBUTED CREATIVITY online forum with Eyebeam

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sat 09/27/03 at 01:01 PM +0200): > > So, please tell me if Nettime is interested in this for one week in > > November/December. > Who would actually decide and how, on what grounds, would they -- or she or > he -- decide? Or will this be the first (?) vote in nettimeocracy? Or

Wellcome Trust statement on open access publishing

- Forwarded From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Random-bits] Wellcome Trust statement on open access publishing Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 12:43:47 -0400 Original Message Subject:[Ip-health] Wellcome Trust statement on open access publ

Re: New Media Education and Its Discontent

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sat 10/04/03 at 04:32 PM -0400): > New Media Education and Its Discontent there's something hilarious about the proposition that, were it not for andrew jackson -- author, they say, of the quintessentially all-american 'OK' ('oll korekt!') -- this country would be more inclined

Pope Francis CDXIX

< http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/000712.html > Dear Sir, I pray this important message meets you in peace, may blessings of God be upon you and your family and grant you the wisdom to understand my situation and how much I really need your assistance. Before I start let

the semantic web for beginners

or: M*ke M*ney F*st as a part-time ontological envelope-stuffer! even boiled down to plain-vanilla ascii, this is *the* best discussion i've seen about the chimerical 'semantic web.' i'm sending this version to nettime as a sort of nostalgic doff of the hat to 'collaborative text filtering' (whic

[fwd] Beef, Cement, etc. etc.

['collaborative text filtering' -- cheers, t] www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200401/msg00018.html * Subject: [IP] Beef, Cement, etc. etc. * From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 16:16:10 -0500 _

ultima thule

MSD -- Modernist Spongiform Disease -- abounds, it seems. good riddance. cheers, t < http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=182392004 > Sun 15 Feb 2004 Joyce grandson threatens to ban readings at festival NICOLA BYRNE IN DUBLIN AS anyone who has ever attempted to

finally, the simputer

slashdot notes the release, finally, of the 'simputer.'[1] the funny thing is, it doesn't much resemble the obect of the heartfelt rhetoric about how it would be the missing link needed to connect the impoverished rural popu- lations of south asia -- at least, they don't figure very heavily in the

Sloop John A[shcroft]: DoJ exhumes antique law to fight greenpeace

every so often you hear some pietism to the effect that 'piracy' offers a rich historical vein to, uh, dredge for alternative understandings of, say, territoriality. indeed: and now the US dept of justice is searching the same terrain for sources of inspiration. cheers, t - Backwarded U.

facial recognition: US$1B 'just in time' for the RNC in NYC

[the public response to this -- compared to responses to similar efforts in, say, london -- will be a useful study in contrasts. it's the first i've heard of it; it seems likely that the systems in question have already been discredited elswehere. (hilariously, just t

Publish. Write. Sing.

Some group styling itself "Jibjab" made a cutesy animation mocking the US presidential candidates -- set to the tune of Woody Guthrie's "This land is your land." The company that holds the rights, Ludlow Music, isn't happy with this and sent Jobjab a cease-and-desist letter. Lyrics from "This lan

Re: report_on_NNA

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wed 06/07/06 at 12:38 PM -0400): > >" But if our absence merely ended up paving the way for a 'private' -- > >through commission and omission -- event, can you tell me why exactly the > >name nettime had or has anything to do with it?" > > > >Yikes..! > > double-yikes, indeed!

Re: report_on_NNA

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu 06/08/06 at 01:38 PM -0700): > But what really bothers me is this, that the current discussion on the > nettime list is really about nettime and nettime and nettime... Exactly. ...and... [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu 06/08/06 at 01:29 PM -0400): > the effects were fairly obvio

more on USG simulation attack by nettime

Last February I pointed out the USG's simulation of, basically, nettime and a bunch of bloggers attacking Our Precious Bodily Fluids: http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0602/msg00029.html There's more! Kevin Poulsen picks up on it for WiReD: < http://blog.wired.com/27BStro

Boy Scout IP merit badge

The historical origins of the Boy Scouts and equivalent organizations, yeah, sure, but the history of specific *merit badges*? I suppose they seemed 'neutral' or 'natural' enough that it didn't make sense to look more deeply; now I wonder, and this list looks a bit more interesting: < http:/

Jamie Love x2 on Open Document Format

[Back to our regularly scheduled programming. --tb] James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> #1: When standards are political -- ODF (the Open Document Format) #2: Is Open XML a one way specification for most people? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #

'sharing': the IPR kerfuffle over Indonesian H5N1 samples

Initial reports were that Indonesia planned withhold samples of the H5N1 bird flu it had isolated in order to 'keep control of intellectual property rights' in an exclusive deal with Baxter. It then transpires that the govt had concluded that the normal approach to 'sharing' sample with the WHO le

love-o-gram: WIPO, WIPO, WIPO

James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dugie S. on Future of WIPO meeting FT on Future of WIPO: Clash likely on intellectual property rights Dugie - WIPO Urged to Give Up On Database Protection - Forwarded From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Random-bit

love-o-gram: WIPO, WIPO, WIPO

James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dugie S. on Future of WIPO meeting FT on Future of WIPO: Clash likely on intellectual property rights Dugie - WIPO Urged to Give Up On Database Protection - Forwarded From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Random-bit

cisler meeting report -- new geography: strategies for deep place

[forwarded to nettime at steve cisler's request -- cheers, t Meeting Report October 6-7, 2004 New Geography: strategies for deep place Institute for the Future (iftf.org) By Steve Cisler CONFERENCE BACKGROUND The host organization is a research group that has

epistemological crisis for US tail-chasing politics

[as poll results in the US election have become more erratic and the Dems/liberals/progressives/whatevers have put together a more effective media machine, noise about the problems that mobile phones presents for the process of 'manufacturing con- sent' is getting loud

Re: epistemological crisis for US tail-chasing politics

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fri 10/01/04 at 01:45 PM -0700): > I'm not certain Breslin has all facts straight. The NY Times > specifically claims to use random number generators to phone pollees, > and if they really do, that should include cell phones. Breslin's and the NYT's respective claims aren't ex

WIPO sneak trashes NGO dox

< http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/002117.php > Letter to WIPO on stolen EFF documents November 18, 2004 Let me try to convey to you the depth of the weirdness that arose when all the public-interest groups' papers were stolen and trashed at WIPO. No one gets into the WIPO building without

RPG street-art mods

< http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/counter-street-art/ > just transplants for now, mostly. cf. bobig's pro-peace sit-in in an Unreal death match: < http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-bold-0004/msg00110.html > cheers, t # distributed via : no commercial use without permiss

FWD: Unholy alliance: IPR and Christian conservatives

>From the NCUC list, NCUC being the Noncommercial Users Constituency (of ICANN) list. Devout Christians have developed such a reputation for being mobilizable that we can surely expect them to be used as fodder for all manner of creepy agendas. The only limit is whether some connected cynic can fi

Re:

From: "Paul D. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <...> > victims, I can only say - like that old Led Zeppelin song "when the > levee breaks" it's all about reconstruction. <...> Paul, that 'old Led Zeppelin song' was a cover of a 1929 recording by Memphis Minnie McCoy and Kansas Joe. (You 'really'

USG simulates attack by nettime

OK, and bloggers... From Michael Geist's BNA's Internet Law News (ILN) - 2/13/2006: US CONCLUDES 'CYBER STORM' EXERCISE TESTING NET DEFENCES The US government concluded its Cyber Storm wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to

Lessig endorses DRM

It's fun to think about possible contexts where open-source means could be used to justify closed ends. Cheers, T < http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/lessig_blesses_drm/ > Lessig blesses DRM It's open source DRM, so it's good. Huh? By [55]Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Published

more on the ITU

after a message i sent to nettime,[1] about activists interest in the upcoming WSIS process, got bounced around various lists, a few people wrote some informative responses; it seemed worthwhile to pass them back to nettime. in doing so, i'm not *endorsing* them -- fwiw, their assessments of the I

manon ress: Notes on WSIS prep meeting in W.DC, February 10, 03 <...>

- Forwarded Subject: [Ecommerce] Notes on WSIS prep meeting in W.DC, February 10, 03 (Open source question) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 14:49:58 -0500 From: Manon Anne Ress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ecommerce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please find a 1) short summary of my informal notes from the Feb 10, 2

alan toner: rome f15

alan sent this to me in a private mail, though it was written for anyone and everyone else. forwarded with permission -- and pleasure, of course. cheers, t - date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 20:37:10 + from: Alan Toner Dawn. Already at 7.00 in the morning groups wandered the streets of our district

william gaddis: player pianos, rise and fall of

if ever there was a candidate for the dead media list, this little essay is it; but that list seems, if not to be deadm, at least to be sleeping. and, anyway, kontext is king -- and maybe nettime is a better, more refractory home for it after all. cheers, t - "Stop Player. Joke No. 4" [1951] Will

ccTLDs, WSIS, ITU, ICANN, ETC

the ITU's 'world summit on the information society' (WSIS) prep-process is sparking lots of activity that's both very hard to decipher and VERY important. one of the better statements i've seen is from GLOCOM's adam peake, who notes, among other things, that: For those who don't know how how

perle vs hersh: on the transformation of jurisprudence (and more)

i've periodically banged my can on nettime and elsewhere (e.g., _mute_ magazine) about the seemingly abstruse issues of jurisdiction and forum, and here it is again -- but this is a pretty stunning case. an ultra- hawkish US government official, upset over an article by an american journalist that

fwd: Draft final declaration of the Beijing Summit on IP

- Forwarded From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Random-bits] Draft final declaration of the Beijing Summit on IP Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:54:52 +0100 WIPO ORIGINAL: English DATE: March 13, 2003

Re: "Dark Fibre" review

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thu 03/27/03 at 11:20 AM +1000): > Key among these is the still crucial global nettime list, which continues > to be the testing ground for cyber theory and politics globally. There is > Fibreculture which is an Australian variant, and myriad other net lists and > societies who

Googlewash[TM]

[bingo. cheers, t] 3 April 2003 The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT Anti-war slogan coined, repurposed and Googlewashed... in 42 days By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Posted: 03/04/2003 at 12:

Next 5 Minutes 4: Preliminary Program

- Forwarded Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:57:57 +0200 From: Eric Kluitenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Next 5 Minutes 4: Preliminary Program AN N OUNCEMENT NEXT 5 MINUTES 4 International Festival of Tactical Media PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Amsterdam

apres mois, the bleluge

clay shirky, alpha male of the 'social software' set, drops a blomb on bloggers everywhere -- come fall, AOL will unleash its own blogging tool on the blogosphere: < http://www.corante.com/many/20030701.shtml#43037 > discreetly overlooking the requisite 'i was there when' bit, he does have

cains and abels

an interesting discrepancy in how the family members of terrorists are treated. on the one hand, we have, of course, mr. al-tikriti's two sons in iraq, where pragmatism has forced the US to stray pretty close to violating the very same provisions of the geneva convention it was squawking about e

interview with bernard lietaer

via danny o'brien's 'oblomovka' < http://www.oblomovka.com/ >, an in- terview with 'the guy who co-designed and implemented the convergence mechanism for the Euro, and co-founded one of the largest and most successful currency funds, bernard lietaer. cheers, t - < http://uazu.net/money/lietaer.ht

jamie love: USPTO, Microsoft seek to kill WIPO meeting on open collaborative models to develop public goods

- Forwarded From: James Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: USPTO, Microsoft seek to kill WIPO meeting on open collaborative models to develop public goods Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:27:50 -0400 August 19, 2003. Technology Daily PM Edition -- Intellectual Property Global Group's Shift On

dossier: WIPO knuckles under on open-source software

as always, jamie love's been flushing out the scoundrels -- this time at WIPO, which first agreed to a meeting on open, collaborative tools then knuckled under to IPR psychotics intent on suppressing anything and everything 'open,' in particular open-source software. here's a dossier of his recent

two data points on the EU directive on software patents

two notable items on the EU's 'directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions': (1) an open letter to the euro parliament signed by a dozen economists, and (2) an op-ed by frits bolkestein, eurocommissioner for internal market, customs and tax- ation. bolkestein makes the truly a

(fwd) Deacons perspective on Gutnick defamation case

from the following comment on the gutnick case: [T]he High Court's decision does provide impetus for ratification of a multilateral treaty to provide a single regime for resolving jurisdiction issues in cross border contexts. Indeed, to go further and have a global code in a

party like it's 2003

the N5M process seems to be revving up again, though in a very different way than before -- with 'tactical media labs' (or, to use the fasgrolia (Fast Growing Language of Initials and Acro- nyms) formulation, 'TML's -- now distributed in an effort to de- centralize the programming. whether this w

spitzer deconstructs investor award dinner

[andrew orlowski at _the register_ pointed this out to me, a speech given by new york state attorney general spitzer -- as orlowski puts it, a 'pugilist populist attorney straight from central casting' -- on 12 nov at an institutional investor award dinner. 'Spitzer pointed o

fwd: [IRR] US DTV: the battle is joined

forwarded with permission; in granting permissions, doug noted that he glossed over lots of details and nuances, and that it wasn't his intent to give a complete picture. still, i thought his account was useful enough to forward to nettime. cheers, t - Forwarded From: Doug Pardee <[EMAIL P

ur-europanto redivivus: FT on clinton

"'novus economicus' salutavit." cheers, t Finis coronat opus Published: January 9 2003 4:00 | Last Updated: January 9 2003 4:00 With the death of Lord Jenkins of Hillhead,

ominous rumbling about global net regulations

at the NYC N5M4 TML (there's a string for you) there was a bit of a discussion about whether or how *ac(k)?tivists should pressure the upcoming WSIS process. deedee halleck was all for it; my own view is that they should do a bit of homework before diving into that mess. it's only recently that the

froomkin: toward a critical theory of cyberspace

[i can't resist noting that this looks a tad more interesting than galloway's cliff's notes on 'computer protocols and how they establish control in the seemingly anarchical Internet.' the PDF is at . --cheers, t]

rhizome: burn rate

one thing that hasn't come up in this discussion is history -- that is, the history of rhizome. for various reasons, i viewed this all from a safe and 100% uninvolved distance, so my memory is probably off when it comes to details. mark tribe and/or other rhizomatics are free to correct me, of cour