media: March 2005 Archives

Working on making friends at livejournal.

don't I wish. I want to re-read the book of that title by Robert Penn Warren someday because I remember being affected by it, deeply, yet recall no details or any of hint of why. The sentiment the title invokes has, however, always stayed with me, and I remember it most at those moments when I'm most aware of feeling like there is not enough time. But then, the title isn't implying there's enough "time", is it? Just enough world.

What's up with livejournal?

I'm a gonna find out . . .

here's another one.....for the rss that used to be and will hopefully someday be again!

TerraNova

At least for awhile, on first glance it's rather tech-sophisticated...

And Radhika is trying to encompass cyberspace it seems - http://www.livejournal.com/users/cyberdivalive. How does she manage it all?

They did not run conventions like Fantasm in my day! Or, maybe they did, but as a teen in the 70's I missed the connections or clues at the Star Trek centered cons I attended. Not at all as wild as museumfreak.

I did wear vulcan ears and a long nose to junior high school one April Fool's Day....

:-)

Liminality. Who will I be? Who do I want to be?

In LinguaMoo I want to be rewind. (I wanted to be endless reflexivity but it wouldn't accept that - I think I needed an underscore. Oh well. rewind is better.)

In pmc2 - a different space. How do these relate to each other? LinguaMoo is e-theory...experimentation and application of/with theory (or so I gather...)

pmc2 is ... for play? Or, perhaps, for plurking? (although I wager such is welcome in LinguaMoo, too).

Matter does not exist, according to George Berkeley, "one of the three most famous eighteenth century British Empiricists" (along with Locke and Hume), who utilized "strictly empiricist principles in defence of the view that only minds or spirits exist."

Motto: esse is percipi, to be is to be perceived.

"It was in 1964, when Paul Baran introduced his work on "distributed
communications". That's were it started to become reality.
http://www.rand.org/publications/RM/RM3420/RM3420.chapter1.html

BTW, the graphic there is quite good also to understand the shift within
societies from centralized to de-centralized to (more or less)
participatory ones. So, technology is influencing the shaping of society
and also the other way round.

Best,
Laurent" [to the AoIR listserv}

and what to call the medium of interaction enabled by technology...

New Yorkers for Fair Use's brief in the Grokster "P2P
Filesharing" case:

We ask the Court:

Did the Court of Appeals rightly conclude that the doctrine of
contributory copyright infringement cannot be used to prohibit
the Internet?

http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/MGM_v_Grokster/20050301_fsf_nyfu.pdf

We put the same question to the Federal Trade Commission at their
recent "P2P Filesharing" workshop:

http://www.nyfairuse.org/action/ftc/

Last year, we pulled many voices concerned about the Internet
together at the Internet Commons Congress:

http://www.nyfairuse.org/icc/

Seth Johnson
New Yorkers for Fair Use

[CC] Counter-copyright: http://realmeasures.dyndns.org/cc

I reserve no rights restricting copying, modification or
distribution of this incidentally recorded communication.
Original authorship should be attributed reasonably, but only so
far as such an expectation might hold for usual practice in
ordinary social discourse to which one holds no claim of
exclusive rights.

Internet history.

thanks to the good people at AiOR, particularly Mag. Laurent Straskraba.

The new AoIR website is cool (well, those parts I can access while getting my paid membership processed). It's run on an opensource software called drupal.

I had an idea about the blog, about creating an internal "door" to a second blog (or some such) where I could write the more intrapersonal, subjective "oh just me" stuff. Maybe if folks wanted to read that they'd have to join and get a password for access? And the rest of Reflexivity would remain pretty much as it is....

Do-able?

This clip from the "Museum of Media History" reminds me of that book (by David Mamet, but not the famous playwright?) I couldn't finish because it was too weird. Actually, the concept wasn't weird, it was an illustration of what historians do, trying to piece together the (or a) "story" about something that happened when only bits of the archival record remain.

According to John Laprise's posting to the AoIR list, the clip "presents a great futurist history peering at where the Internet is going." The art of it is (given my newfound "understanding" gleaned from Darian Leader) the empty and confused (poorly transmitted) places, the passages of temporal (mis)transmission that (en)force silence and waiting. Anticipation and impatience fill this time-space of nothing, capturing that which we don't usually perceive - the headlong rush of activity and momentum.

Should we be surprised that the Bush administration and media outlets have sidestepped or otherwise ignored the law regarding disclosure of government funding of television programs? Donna sends along the activism:

StopFakeNews provides information and an email to send to the FCC and also to the Justice Department. The story, Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News, ran in the NYTimes yesterday.

Passed along by Becky Town Meeting Townsend.

Ward Churchill is an angry man and, if one can read through/past the accusatory outrage, he's got a compelling and deeply disturbing argument for why Some People Push Back. He's about to lose his job, it seems, at the U of Colorado. An open letter of protest is making the rounds, email criticalthinking@pitzer.edu to join signatories such as Henry Giroux, Immanual Wallerstein, and Allen Wood among many others.

I never read Hunter S. Thompson, but the tributes to his "gonzo journalism" valorize his anger. What made his anger acceptible - even laudatory - while Churchill's is denigrated?

The hosts of DeafNation say 1.1 million viewerswatched parts of the 20th Deaflympic Games held this past January in Melbourne.

(I really like the logo.) :-)

The 21st Deaflympics will be in Utah in 2007. And it looks the 2009 Games will be in Taipei.