I have just completely re-written the about page for this blogging effort!
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In his latest work, Une politique de civilisation*, Edgar Morin develops the views on the state of the world which he had already outlined in Terre-Patrie, and proposes a reform of politics and our way of thinking, to take us beyond the multi-faceted, global crisis we are currently experiencing.
A new holistic theory of action for our time? I have seen it put that way…
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Dan has a lot to say about David Weinberger’s book, and has some good quotes:
This is the Web’s nature, for everything on it was put there by a human being for a reason. In building a site, we are saying that we find this topic interesting and we think others will also. Sites that work make manifest their passion. So, of course the Web inevitably is a plenum of places that have meaning and matter at least to someone.
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Having found Dan’s site earlier today, I find he has a lot of good stuff there. Added him to my list of blogs (should appear soon on the left.) His series of Writings are insightful and pleasant to read.
The quote above is from David Weinberger’s new book, “Small Pieces Loosely Joined”. Here is the book’s site, has chapters online.
The quote makes me realise how the web is as I have often said, a mirror – but it is one selected and filtered by people and what they find meaningful. Obvious, but it is one way that the world is different from the virtual world “everything on it was put there by a human being for a reason”. The link to the book is great to have… more on that to come.
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A great untold story of our time is the staggering privatization and abuse of dozens of resources that we collectively own. The plunder is widespread,affecting public lands, the broadcast airwaves, the Internet, the public domain of knowledge and creativity, publicly funded medicines, and even our genes. As companies quietly seize our common wealth, however, our government often fails to protect us, sometimes actually giving away our common assets.
I have not sen any full reviews of this book. Looks promising – good title 🙂
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While large players and big media companies act like they are the main reason for the web and Internet and therefore should drive policy decisions, in actuality they are just “the biggest of the many small players” that make up the Internet. In fact, the controlling “stay within us” mentality some of them have is actually counter to the needs of the Internet for growth. The numbers show that the contributions of the myriad of small players — individuals, non-profits, and small businesses — are crucial to the vitality of the web and its value to people.
This one was in the top 40! Great to see it and also that people appreciate such clear simple commonsense analysis backed up with data.
The fact that I found it and am linking to it proves his point. Here is a moment where a country inn rises above the Hilton.
Could the big pipes however control the net?
Another thought, if we judged an individual by their job religion, race or gender we might get some idea of who they ware but it is the fine mesh in between these big trends that really matters.
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Nodal and Matrix Analyses of Communication Patterns in Small Groups
Technical, but maybe useful somewhere – so i’ve linked it.
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This seems a clearer interface than blogdex. They have a separate list for News sites.
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Top 25 blog links – not unlike DAYTOP’s Top 40 – link coming up. Funily enough these two indexes show different chart toppers. Wired article about blogdex.
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I do a live music webcast, called TestingTesting, from my living room. Our next show is June 3
And it is great! Now this is the future of music. Who else is doing this?
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Howard Rheingold’s Reboot talk
Howard is being blogged “live” on Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things.
Don’t think that money is never a motive force, but the Internet, the PC, and the Web weren’t motivated by money. There are 0.5MM blogs, but only three of them make any money, the rest are in it for reputation, love, to contribute to the commons.