Check out this pretty nice and sweet article about why Myspace and Youtube are insanely popular.
Archive for April, 2006
I highly recommend Yochai Benkler’s Wealth of Networks. Seems like everyone is checking it out. I’m bummed I couldn’t make Benkler’s talk last week at Berkeley’s School of Information. Found that Patrick (Deegan) and Mitch Kapor are reading it. Also, it is highly recommended by the Professor, Lessig that is…My copy is on order still, but anyone can download it and read it online.
I’m writing this to publicize a place right near my house that has $ 0.99 bubble tea of all types. It is close and cheap! Its at the front of this Chinese restaurant called Dak Win, and is a Chinese chain called QUICKLY.
Go though and give them business. Now that I’ve been off the juice (coffee) since february, its good to have some alternatives.
I’m really counting down to have some time to do major maintenance on my various projects once school is out May 12.
Check these links out:
- Mia’s (General Counsel from Creative Commons) talk transcript in virtual space is now online. The title of the talk is “Age of the Conducer.” I’m really into the title.
- Construction at WTC grounds in NYC began.
- A lovely summary of my favorite book: How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie.
- I’m battling the other rejons on google. Let the games begin…
It is interesting to hear how much software costs. I forgot this until yesterday when in a SFAI faculty meeting, different faculty discussed the costs of various 3D apps.
Schools should take the cost of one of their software licenses and setup a freedom toaster for students to download and burn high-quality free and open source sofware as well as free and open content.
Today is the 50 year anniversary of the birth of the standard industrial shipping container. Hats off to the age of containerization.
Back in grad school, myself, Matt Hope and Nathaniel Clark started MESH.FM with a bang by doing many events in a large trash compactor, much like the industrial shipping container.
I just ordered Marc Levinson’s book, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger.
iCommons Summit, Rio de Janeiro, 23-25 June, 2006
www.icommons.org
“Towards a global digital commons”
The past few years has seen the burgeoning of a number of initiatives
aimed at opening the fields of creativity, science and knowledge in
communities around the world. Practitioners from these movements
currently identify themselves as falling within a particular community
– ‘free and open source software’, ‘open access’, ‘open content’ and
‘open science’, amongst others – but they share key processes and
values whose common elements are yet to be fully realized.
This year’s iCommons Summit aims to bring together, in a creative,
stimulating and cooperative environment, the pioneers from these
communities – to inspire and learn from one another and establish
closer working relationships around a set of incubator projects. With
participation by commons communities from Creative Commons, Wikipedia,
Science Commons, Ubuntu, A2K and others, this year’s Summit is set to
be one of the most exciting events for creative and knowledge commons
pioneers from around the world.
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