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Wealth of Networks Wiki
This Wiki is an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler’s book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, available under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Sharealike license. A good idea, and one that tests and amplifies the basic propositions of Benkler’s arguments. But…
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new theme
Time for a spring clean, even though it’s nearly the end of summer. This is a theme called freshy. I was a sucker for the shininess! I’ve had a bit of a play with the colours, but it needs some more customising, when I have more time. [update] Sorry Christian! Let’s remember the maxim about…
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farewell…
…to the phd. I submitted my thesis for examination today. But not before: getting a flat tire on the way to work yesterday my ibook’s hard disk dying, also yesterday, subsequent to which… While waiting for my new macbook pro to be formatted (WOO!), I completed the edits on a windows machine, which then… crashed,…
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tagcloud of my phd
This is a tagcloud that I generated from the text of my entire PhD thesis at tagcrowd. I don’t know what it tells anyone about the thesis itself, unless you put a lot of faith in word frequency. But there’s something immensely pleasurable about it for me. I was strangely excited waiting for the fraction…
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normal room
Some everyday cosmopolitanism at a project called normal room. Normal Room shows you interior design and home furniture from all around the globe. Search our image database and explore the differences and similarities in architecture and home decoration between people in different countries. via boing boing.
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large and in charge
This is not the parody I was looking for, but at least this very obviously calculated-to-provoke-youtube-responses fan ‘ad’ features women. I’m proudly reading very much against the grain here, but as much as I love cheap and nasty, the PS3 is way, way, sexier. Go Karaoke: Yeah, like the young people say, we don’t need…
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the buddha machine: lo-fi zen minimalist heaven
In the mail yesterday, I got a buddha machine, brought to us by FM3. I love it, and I made a minimalist lo-fi film to celebrate (see below). Incidentally, it was not only shot but also edited in about 10 minutes using the VideoDJ application (which is a perfectly functional video editing tool) in my…
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Dumpr Museumr: textual poaching in reverse
Museumr is a new 3rd party flickr toy that lets you stick your own photo in a frame at your choice of museum. More museumr photos. It’s weird that I came across this via my Flickr contacts this morning, while writing a proposal for a paper I hope to give at MIT5 on Flickr, social…
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new book: ham radio’s technical culture
Ham Radio’s Technical Culture, by Kristen Haring, is a new book out on MIT Press, found via Anne’s del.icio.us links. From the blurb/summary: Ham radio required solitary tinkering with sophisticated electronics equipment, often isolated from domestic activities in a “radio shack,” yet the hobby thrived on fraternal interaction. Conversations on the air grew into friendships,…
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5 things you didn’t know about me
yes, we all know memes are lame, but Jeremy has tagged me, so, since we’re in holiday mode… 1. When I was a kid we had a small hobby farm just outside of town, where Dad ran about 30 head of Hereford cattle. We kept horses as well, and sometimes took them on family holidays…