Some links for Chapter 2 - Technologies of Cooperation

marc a smith
Aura Project

mancur olson

elinor ostrom
digital library of the commons

garrett hardin society (tragedy of
the commons)

peter kropotkin
Mutual Aid
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke

John Von Neumann
John Von Neumann
Richard Stallman
Eric Raymond
Marc Andreessen

Brian Behlendorf
early usenet
Steve Bellovin
Barry Wellman
David Reed's Law

We're not well liked in our own field...

According to a recent Library Journal article, that is, wherein ALA president Michael Gorman discusses his distaste for bloggers. From the slashdot newsposting:

"American Library Association president Michael Gorman is not too fond of bloggers and blogging. '[The] Blog People (or their subclass who are interested in computers and the glorification of information) have a fanatical belief in the transforming power of digitization and a consequent horror of, and contempt for, heretics who do not share that belief... Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs.'"

-Bertito

Google SMS

Since we're talking about SMS, I thought I'd mention GOOGL SMS. I had a little fun with it when it first came out. Google Labs has more.

Networking with the Human Body

Don't know how many people caught this little article over on slashdot discussing the use of the surface of the human body as a data transmission device, but I thought it was pretty interesting. Quoting the I4U post:

"NTT announces Human Area Networking technology Research Project called RedTacton, that safely turns the surface of the human body into a data transmission path at speeds up to 10 Mbps between any two points on the body."

Think about the business applications...you could hold your ipod in one hand, and then touch a terminal in your local Disc Jockey to download a song you want. Or maybe use it to make quick uploads of pictures to your blog without having to worry about USB cables.

Check out the flash demo over at RedTacton's site.

-Bertito

Daily Show on Blogs

Brendan pointed us to the Daily Show's take on blog on the class discussion board. I was just sent a link to a QuickTime version of the Show. Take a look and enjoy.
Is the Daily Show right?

Podcasting makes the Front Page of NYTimes

The groundwork for podcasting was set back in 2001 when Dave Winer added a "Payload" to RSS. But it wasn't til this past summer (2004) when Adam Curry wrote a script to carry the payload into iTunes and then to your iPod that the term and practice of podcasting took off.
Last week podcasting got attention in USA Today. Today podcasting was a front page story in the NYTimes. The Times story was more of the odd people do odd things tale that has dogged bloggers to me, but Dave Winer saw the article as mostly positive.
What's your take on podcasting and on the article?

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This blog will be a forum for updates and discussions for the Emerging Technologies and Issues class section 001. We'll pick up from the Blackboard discussions, but don't feel limited to those topics..