Posts from — September 2003

Incorporated Subversion.

I object, it’s good to subvert…

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Some useful links:

Teaching as a Subversive Activity – A review / summary of this revolutionary book

The DOGME Teachers of English Group – A group set up concerned with ‘a pedagogy of the bare essentials’

An earlier post on this in my weblog

[Xplana]

Hyper Text 2003 Papers posted.

The Hyper Text 2003 Conference has posted the Hyper Text 03 Papers online. There are some great reads in the pile, if you enjoy theoretical and future-current uses of hyper text as a tool and theory.

[vanderwal.net Off the Top]

there are some good ones there, i like 4.pdf and 30.pdf, though others are probably worth reading in their own right.

Please find attached the First Call for Papers (following text) for International Workshop onÊWeb Services:Modeling, Architecture and Infrastructure (WSI2004),In conjunction with the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems – ICEIS 2004Êto be held at Universidade Portucalense, Porto ö Portugal, 14-17, April 2004.Ê Dr Jiankun Hu and Dr Savitri BevinakoppaÊ( Chairs ) and the organising committee invite you to submit a paper (or papers) for review and to attend in April. Further details are given in the Call for Papers. Please circulate this.

i'm not posting the rest cause it was all html email and that's just not my style.

this is something i'm watching, not being a local i can't do much other than that.

here is some protest news too:

http://news.com.com/2100-1008-5069279.html?tag=nl

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5070092.html?tag=fd_top

and counterspin,

http://vrijschrift.org/swpat/press/final_factsheet1092003.pdf

most of this is from Seth Johnson who is doing great work with C-FIT

the digital opportunity channel is providing coverage of the WSIS, there are alot of good folk working on this and you really should watch, pay attention because for a few years this is going to have very real effects on the international information society.
http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/frontpage/308/4726

2. They are not familiar with the source of that “giant sucking sound.”

3. Iraq has always been a problem.

24. Underclassmen who would be leaving college early have always been a part of the NBA and NFL drafts.

28.Stores have always had scanners at the checkout.

and there is more! so if you wonder why these everything is different, yet the same, here ya go.

Raggle: a console based aggregator.
As a fan of console-based tools (mytop, for example) in this “web-based everything” age, I was thrilled to see an announcement for Raggle. Raggle is a console RSS aggregator, written in Ruby. Features include customizable keybindings, basic HTML rendering, HTTP proxy support, OPML import/export, themes, support for various versions of RSS, Screen support. browser auto-detection, and more. Raggle has been tested under Linux and OpenBSD, and should work properly under other Unix variants as well…
[Jeremy Zawodny's blog] [Keeping track]

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the best part is that it is written in ruby, there are many scripting choices out there today, but the discerning scripter chooses ruby, why? because it is red and shiny? no, but because it 'worth learning' and thus 'worth using', like lisp, you'll understand why after you've learned it.

well here is a news article on the apple g5 supercomputer project. it has no technical details, but should answer some people's questions.

and the infoworld article:
here

and the press release:
http://www.vt.edu/news/showitem.php?id=1062601746

Today i made my hotel reservation, paid my registration, and submitted my travel approval form to the university to go to Internet Research 4.0, there are a bunch of great papers this year and it looks like it will be a great conference, as it always is.

Sandra Braman from nettime. It is an article entitled “The RIght to Create: Cultural Policy in the Fourth Stage of the Information Society”. I've admired Sandra's work for a while now and this is well worth the read for people interested in the 'right to tinker', the 'right to write', or any other mode of informational production.

Back in the day, she had an exchange in which when she found out I worked with ancient greek texts and contemporary theory, she encouraged me to examine the interrelations of greek high culture and its philosophical products and contemporary culture and its philosophical products, that would have been a whole different career, but i did some of it when i looked at foucaut's use of aristotle in my masters thesis, though i never get around to heraclitus and postmodernity, which we discussed in more depth.