Wednesday, October 15, 2008
From the Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies and the book review section where authors reply to reviews.
Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture
Author: Tarleton Gillespie
Publisher: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007
From a recent Leonardo Books review, October 2008.
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
by Christopher M. Kelty
Duke University Press, Durham and London, [...]
http://www.fridayarts.net/blogs/?p=3677
Internet video site YouTube needs no introduction. Its status as
both a branded channel and a medium in its own right has redefined
“new media” on both sides of the art and corporate entertainment
divide. But most of its content resides somewhere in between, and its
currency lies in the vernacular [...]
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Previous research into open source led to this article ‘The Cathedral and the Baazar by Eric Steven Raymond, Nov 2006. I like many others it seems who are involved in open-source software development have been influenced by some of the ideas that Raymond presents. A quote from the introduction:
Linus Torvalds’s style of development—release early [...]
From Markus Sandy’s blog a post tilted ‘Drupal as a framework for a social context engine’ , a video record of Richard Schave’ s presentation at the Los Angeles Drupal Camp 2007…. He refers to webjay which has been pulled down as an example of a social context engine (also Flickr, del.ici.ous).
Lisa Gye posted this open book example ‘The Googlization of Everything’ by Siva Vaidhyanathanto to the fc list. The author Siva Vaidhyanathan uses the open book process (Institute for the Future of the Book) to critique Google. The book is a “book blog” and Vaidhyanathanto lays out some major research questions in the summary:
[...]
EngageMedia emailed out some updates to the FOSS video codecs they are working on.
It is a review of available tools for the creation, playback and embedding of online video using FOSS codecs, and a look at the most pressing areas for development to enhance their adoption by social change video projects on the web.
PDF [...]
The transmission network put out their final publicity for their event VX:transmission that coincides with the VV conference.
VX:mission will look at how distribution of Social Justice Video is happening using Free and Open Source technology. It is a chance to find out about existing distribution projects, get feedback for your own projects or ideas, find [...]
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
What type of associations does my research have with the principles of ‘community media’?
With my project, which examines in a broad context online video practice, I did not intend to make a direct link with the notion of community media. Unlike, Leo and Bruce I do not make a reference to ‘community media’ in my [...]
Thursday, September 6, 2007
In the AIR project coordinated by Beatriz, I identified a number of what could possibly called open source correlations which are written here as free flow thoughts. Firstly, the documentation is very detailed and informative with links to secondary sources and background processes. This seems to flow across many of Beatriz’s projects. For example a [...]
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Notes from the still/open workshop I am attending.
These are the notes I took down from my perspective as we presented our group work in the Alessandro Ludovico workshop. Our group handled the content aspect of hypothetical open source publication. We discussed the group making comments on these notes as there was plenty more discussed [...]
