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XML in 10 points
I have a sense, but am not sure, that XML is actually something that strengthens our personal connections. I know that all this might work towards some commodification process… however I’d like it to also assist in the process of linking me to others inthe collaborative filtering way, can it do that? Do i need to learn it?

The Hi-Tech Gift Economy by Richard Barbrook

The hi-tech gift economy heralds the end of private property in ‘cutting edge’ areas of the economy.
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Net users will always obtain much more than will ever be contributed in return. By giving away something which is well-made, they will gain recognition from those who download their work. For most people, the gift economy is simply the best method of collaborating together in cyberspace. Within the mixed economy of the Net, anarcho-communism has become an everyday reality.

I think it is all marvelous, but something is not quite right. Perhaps it is more that there is a revolution brewing, that the means of production – and the nature of the fundamental commodity has changed. Its not communism thats for sure.

Seth Godin: Feeding the Gorilla – BACK TALK – WebBusiness Magazine August 1, 1999

Seth Godin’s company, Yoyodyne Entertainment, developed games and contests consumers played via e-mail to sell products. Yahoo bought Yoyodyne and Godin received $30 million in stock. In addition to working at Yahoo, Godin has written Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends, and Friends into Customers.

Free Chapters available here: http://www.permission.com/

Amazon

All this is leading up to an article by steve beard in MUTE where he talks about Virilio and Godin.

CTHEORY: Cyberwar, God And Television: Interview with Paul Virilio

The day when virtual reality becomes more powerful than reality will be the day of the big accident. Mankind never experienced such an extraordinary accident.

Paul Virilio

JAMES DER DERIAN: Is the author dead?

PAUL VIRILIO: There is a great threat to writing. The written work is threatened by the screen, not by the image. There have always been images in books. There have always been images in architecture, like frescoes or stain glass windows. No, it is the evocative power of the screen, and in particular the live screen. It is real time that threatens writing. Writing is always, always, in a deferred time, always delayed. Once the image is live, there is a conflict between deferred time and real time, and in this there is a serious threat to writing and the author.

I am following up on some references here for a discussion on the possibility of commodification of dreamwork on the net. Some more references to come!

Bulletin Board Discussions – the Association for the Study of Dreams

Welcome to the Association for the Study of Dreams Bulletin Board. The purpose of this area is to provide an interactive platform for discussing topics in dreams and dreaming through archived (Usenet Newsgroup-like) message boards.

John Herbert – ASD Dream Time – Dreaming in Cyberspace

Reflections on Online Dream Groups John W. Herbert, Ph. D.

The advent of global communication via the Internet has brought many changes to the extent to which information can be shared, and it has also changed our sense of community. We are no longer bound by geographical constraints but are linked by communal interests. Electronic communication provides us with many ways with which to share these various interests, and dreamwork has been one area that has proven to be very suitable for this emerging medium.

National Coalition of Arts Therapies Associations (NCATA)

National Coalition of Arts Therapies Associations (NCATA)
The National Coalition of Arts Therapies Associations (NCATA), founded in 1979, is an alliance of professional associations dedicated to the advancement of the arts as therapeutic modalities. NCATA represents over 8000 individual members of six creative arts therapies associations.

The creative arts therapies include art therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, music therapy, psychodrama, and poetry therapy.

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