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Kevin Kelly (born 1952) is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. He has also been a writer, photographer and conservationist. Kelly is a student of cultures (Asian ones in particular) and is considered by some an expert in digital culture. Here you will find a [...]
This is a podcast from a panel discussion held at the College of Mass Communication. Many issues affecting the music business are addressed and discussed. It offers an excellent insight on how the industry is changing. The panel discussion is dated February 18th, 2008 and presented by the Global Media Research Center, hence it is [...]
File sharing may boost CD sales? “When you look at what the music people are sharing online, it’s very much like looking at radio,” he says. Not coincidentally, the early days of music radio brought similar fears that consumers would not purchase records they could listen to for free. For the record industry, Oberholzer-Gee argues, [...]
a paper by DAN PERKEL Abstract In this chapter, I argue that MySpace is an environment that fosters the development of new literacies. Drawing on examples from fieldwork and my own use of the site, this analysis is based on a model that tries to reconcile social and technical perspectives on literacy. The expressive power [...]
Vision 2015: A Globally Networked and Integrated Intelligence click here to download Information Sharing Needs for National Security Gregory B. White, Ph.D., David J. DiCenso, J.D. Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security at UTSA, Center for Terrorism Law at St. Mary’s click here to download
The Wiki and the Blog: Toward a Complex Adaptive Intelligence Community, D. Calvin Andrus, Central Intelligence Agency, Studies in Intelligence, Vol 49, No 3, September 2005 Abstract US policy-makers, war-fighters, and law-enforcers now operate in a real-time worldwide decision and implementation environment. The rapidly changing circumstances in which they operate take on lives of their own, [...]
Can New Technology and Tradecraft Enhance Intelligence Sharing and National Security? Watch the video here
Intelligence Analysis, Gregory F. Treverton, C. Bryan Gabbard Click here to download the paper
The First Amendment of the Internet — Net Neutrality, which prevents telecoms from rigging the web so it is easier to visit sites that pay for preferential treatment — took a blow from the House of Representatives Thursday. Watch the Mini-Documentary “The Death Of The Internet?” (http://coanews.org/netfreedom for background information on this issue.
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- Lessig
- Announcing the hibernation of lessig.org/blog (from the blogs-deserve-a-sabbatical-too department) August 20, 2009
- Remix supporting a Medieval world (as critics have insisted) August 20, 2009
- REMIX unmixed August 20, 2009
