the best imitation of myself

The Wealth of Networks

I have a lot to catch up on ...but this just rose to the top of the list!! I went to see a lecture by Yale Professor Yochai Benkler yesterday.  He has a fantastic way of conceptualizing and presenting the ideas of peer-production and a commons based culture! What is even BETTER is the fact that he makes his publications available on his website...including is book The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom.  DEAR READERS, YOU MUST DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK...I know most of you and I know you would enjoy having this on your hard drive.  For a shorter starting point you may also want to try Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials....let's start a discussion on this...or a book club or chapter club or something...it's really good stuff from a different perspective!!!

I read Banned Books

Link: Google Book Search: Celebrate Your Freedom to Read.

Wired 14.06: START

YES! I'm so excited these are being rereleased! (I love the way the article is presented!)  I wish they would be released in a digital form, they are perfectly set up for hypertext!!!!!
Wired 14.06: START.

estate sale finds

I used to love watching these two on TV when I was a kid. 

Dark

I'm listening to Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules ..."Bullet in the Brain" by Tobias Wolff gave me the CHILLS...you can hear him read it here: http://www.thislife.org/pages/descriptions/98/114.html
(Fast forward to 43:00)

Thinking

...in a closed system, the answer is the answer; in an open system, an answer is but the specification of a new step in the larger domain of interest. 

Frederic Charles Bartlett, Thinking: An Experimental and Social Study (New York: Basic Books, 1958)

books

I love my books...the whole house is in chaos (it's being painted) and I don't have easy access to my books...I just had to search for one...and I wanted to spend hours down there going through the rest of them!! :)

McKenzie Wark

Link: FM Interviews - McKenzie Wark

I went to a lecture this afternoon featuring McKenzie Wark...very interesting...and of course exactly what I was trying to do for my TE paper! I just have to remind myself that I don't have a lifetime of studying Marx under my belt, so how COULD I speak that eloquently?   He had a VERY intersting use of Powerpoint...at first, I was saying to myself "who is this guy?" because he was reading off of the slides...however they were designed so well (black background, white serif text, with some text in red, each slide numbered) that it worked...it worked really well! (I think it's how Wittgenstein would use ppt!)  McKenzie wrote A Hacker Manifesto.  Even though I may not agree with everything he said, I reallly liked his writing style and the way he constructed and supported his arguments.