Geert Lovink speaking at New School on publishing initiatives and innovative approaches at Institute of Network Cultures.

Geert Lovink, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam from The Politics of Digital Culture on Vimeo.

Do-It-Together: Digital Publishing Experiments at the Institute of Network Cultures

A series of interviews under the title ‘The Internet as Playground and Factory’ by Trebor Scholz and the New York digitallabor.org, Eugene Lang College, The New School University. Scholz in these interviews talks to varying writers and artists about the relationship between work and play on the Internet.

Interviewees include: McKenzie Wark, Jonah Brucker Cohen, Dominic Pettman, Hector Postigo, Alexander Galloway

Twitter for education presentation as google doc. Twenty-Two Interesting Ways* to use Twitter in the Classroom

Some notes on the google research blog about what comes next after web 2.0. I tracked down an article by T.V. Raman, Beyond Web 2.0: The Rest Of The Story I need to find some time to check it out in detail.

Picked this link up off AM’s blog, 5 Trends That Will Change Media in ’09 and was particualry interested in the concept of curation economy:

1. The Growth of the Curation Economy

As the cost of the creation of content continues to come down, more content creators will come online. This will create a huge influx of unfiltered material, and create a significant demand for filters and editors who can find/sort/select and recommend contextual quality content within verticals. This “Curation” function has the potential to give media enterprises whose current business models are under tremendous pressure a new and important role in the web media world. What makes the Curation Economy so powerful, and so disruptive, is that the core resource required to building a high-quality curated experience is not capital, but knowledge. This will drive an emerging class of content entrepreneurs – people who are able to turn their trusted personal brands into high-quality filtered content destinations. As the number of publishers grows dramatically, content consumers will hunger for new trusted sources. These many creators and consumers on the move will fuel whole new businesses and categories.

I read this article in the age on the weekend ‘Beginning to see the light‘, by Nick Miller which gives some insights into the next phase of the Internet. A phase which is all about increased speed “ultra-broadband”.

“With this light pipe and high-resolution video you have one wall of your living room dissolve and there are your grandparents; another wall dissolves and it’s the aunts and uncles, and you’re in one big room. These are the kind of things that will throw our intuitive sense of the physical world out the window.”

Sean sent across the new book by David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the Digital Disorder. The summary from Amazon Books:

In Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger charts the new principles of digital order that are remaking business, education, politics, science, and culture. In his rollicking tour of the rise of the miscellaneous, he examines why the Dewey decimal system is stretched to the breaking point, how Rand McNally decides what information not to include in a physical map (and why Google Earth is winning that battle), how Staples stores emulate online shopping to increase sales, why your children’s teachers will stop having them memorize facts, and how the shift to digital music stands as the model for the future in virtually every industry. Finally, he shows how by “going miscellaneous,” anyone can reap rewards from the deluge of information in modern work and life.

PIcked this up off the aoir list, a discussion about a video on YouTube titled ‘Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us’ that takes a swipe at web 2.0. A critique of the video on the on the Media @ LSE Group weblog in the post ‘Dangerously overstating the significance of Web 2.0′ Quote:

“It suggests that thanks to Web 2.0 technologies (which it neatly explains) “we’ll have to rethink copyright, identity, ethics… ourselves”.

And the discussion on the aoir list.