so many links, so little time...
"A struggle is ensuing to produce and protect what is being called the Knowledge Commons in defiance of the latter day regime of enclosures around knowledge and informational goods. As with the pre-capitalist common lands on which the majority of people subsisted, the idea is that we can build a resource, a life source, of intellectual wealth to sustain people within informatic capitalism.
But this endeavour is not without political, tactical and philosophical problems. In this first issue of the new format Mute, we foreground the antagonisms which the Knowledge Commons throw up.
Texts by: Gregor Claude, Yves Degoyon, Martin Hardie, Benjamin Mako Hill, Jaromil, Yuwei Lin, Peter Linebaugh, Aymeric Mansoux, Agnese Trocchi, RampArt Hacklab, Palle Torsson, James Wallbank, Steve Wright, Simon Yuill and Soenke Zehle"
"Newsfilm Online is one of the most exciting resources to be offered to Higher and Further Education in the UK. 3,000 hours of television news and cinema newsreels, taken from the huge collection of the ITN/Reuters archive, is being made available online in high quality format for teaching, learning and research. Newsfilm Online will be a gateway of unmatched richness to nearly one hundred years of news, from the 1910s to the present day.
Newsfilm Online has now launched a demonstrator website at: http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsfilmonline
This 'demonstrator' web site is making some fifty news clips (approximately one hour of material) freely available for downloading to all users. These clips are arranged by theme and decade, and we welcome your comments on any of these. We hope to add more clips to the site in due course.
The main delivery of 3,000 hours will be in February 2007."
cita: "La tecnología de una época es la mitología de otra" Dj Spooky en Introducción. Film Form/Film Formlessness, p. 13"
en el número de este mes..."In Google we trust: Information integrity in the digital age" -Lee Shaker
abstract: "This paper considers information safety and accuracy in the digital age using Google as an entry point. In doing so, it explores the role media play in shaping the relationship of information, privacy, and trust between Google and the public. This inquiry is undertaken using framing theory to guide a content analysis of the way Google is presented in New York Times articles from a two–year period ending in November, 2005. Analysis of the extensive coverage of Google’s share price and earnings reports leads to the conclusion that trust in Google is fostered in part simply by reports of its fiscal success. To the extent that this is true, meaningful public debate about information policies is inhibited."
este artículo me hace recordar una interesante "reflexión" que leí hace unas semanas en una fascinante y totalmente recomendable bitácora "docente"... InfoTech & Public Policy (asignatura: Information Technology and Public Policy; profesor responsable: Edward W. Felten -efectivamente!!! autor de otra no menos importante e imprescindible bitácora, Freedom to Tinker …is your freedom to understand, discuss, repair, and modify the technological devices you own). Pues bien, el "post" en concreto se titula Google v. Dept. of Justice: Why is Google being quite so secretive?... y el argumento es tan simple como inquietante... conoce google más de lo que debería...? bien, pues todo parece indicar que así es...!!!
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