Category: politics
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New media fog
Interesting times allow me the indulgence to reflect…ideas coming together…why do they need to go together? Is there a purpose, an outcome, or a more significant reason? Yes, ideas coming together can be good, but keeping some ideas apart is also good. Pictures coming together may only sometimes provide solutions; they may also create problems.…
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ICANN and Internet Governance
Here is a great post by Danny Butt from New Zealand (on the f/c network)about Internet Governance issues. The politics of the Internet is not just about the content that it contains, but also about the politics of its ‘global’ architecture. In regard to the root server issue, an interesting idea was put forward on/.…
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Activism or Insight?
Someone once said that the only thing we learn from the past is that we don’t learn anything from the past. The wisdom inherent in this statement is that history (and historians) don’t have any particular power and the people that are in the driving seat are often people that are inimical to the past.…
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Fast Capitalism
Here is a timely new journal called Fast Capitalism that was introduced to me by Ben Agger of the University of Texas. “Recently, I and some others started an electronic journal, Fast Capitalism, in which people address the impact of rapid ICTs on self, society and culture in the 21st century. The first issue has…
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Organised Networks
(Here is my suggestions on how to organsise a network like Fibreculture. It is best to organise an email list first then worry about taking over the world later). 1) Incorporate as a legal entity. Become a fully independent body that is not dependent on any institution (including universities) for its survival. If need be,…
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Energy Bulletin/ Peak oil
EnergyBulletin.net | Newswire | Energy and Peak Oil News This site produced in Melbourne by the imfamous ‘Secret Adam’ gets an enormous amounts of hits per month (so I am told). Secret Adam is a legend of the Internet here in Melbourne as he has been involved in some of the city’s most famous political…