toskim
2 useless articles (in terms of arguments / content) - but i’m happy at least that people are talking about these things - even if they’re not saying much.
openmovements
Where (if anywhere) are the Boundaries of the Open Source Concept?
What this shows me is that the envelope of free use and public availability of IPR will continue to be pushed in more and more directions, and managed in more and more novel and situationally appropriate ways. Crucial to this process will be the accumulating evidence in more and more domains that the owners of IPR may gain (indirectly) more by giving than selling (directly). . . . It will be exciting to track the spread of the open concept into such new domains. Decades from now, researchers will certainly study this era to puzzle out how and why what happened, in fact, happened. Why did it spread to this new domain and not that, and why in that particular order? What impact did new developments, such as the implementation of the Semantic Web have? Did events such as this merely accelerate the trend, or did they enable the concept of open IPR to enter into areas that would not otherwise have opted in, because the value proposition could not shift in that area until better tools were available?
open immersive environments
Grand Theft Auto crashes through EverQuest into The Sims! The walls dividing the game universe are coming down. - wired
“Because the current metaverse evolved largely out of videogames, it makes sense that it should be composed of fiefdoms - after all, you wouldn’t expect a Grand Theft Auto crack dealer to drop in for a barbecue with the Sims. But there is reason to believe that the divided metaverse is merely a transitional phase, and that its component worlds will coalesce.”
March 25th, 2006 at 10:27 am
“i’m happy at least that people are talking about these things”.
Sometime, you seem to think that nobody is thinking about this…
MIT Free/Open Source Research community
http://opensource.mit.edu/online_papers.php
Eric Von Hippel “democratising innovation”
http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ.htm
Yuwei Lin web page
http://www.ylin.org/
Gabriella Coleman
http://healthhacker.org/satoroams/?page_id=531
Nicolas Auray
http://egsh.enst.fr/auray/02_publication.html
To name few…
March 25th, 2006 at 10:34 am
yes - i know that a few people are thinking about this. i’ve read hippel, i’ve read first monday, I’ve seen a few blog posts and a few articles.
But this is not a big public discussion the way that it should be. Every single geek and media nerd can sit around and talk intelligently about the effects of participatory media vs. media oligarchy. But i’m *never* around geeks that discuss these overlaps (free software, creative commons, open publishing). And I hang out with really smart geeks that actually work in 2 or more of these fields.
Why in London WSFII was there no thought about what brought the streams together? There were hundreds of really smart, motivated people there that thought and cared, not soley about the technology, but about technologies effect on society. yet there was absolutely no discussion of this.
I read 40 blogs a day - including many of the A-list. Basically no one ever discusses this. they talk about all kinds of things - the effects of technology on democracy, the “daily me”, etc. And this never (okay - rarely) gets touched. I think it’s unfortunate. and a big problem
But yeah - i know about the few that have brought up this idea before and continue to investigate it. I’m not claiming that I came up with it or anything. but just because a few phd’s and master’s students write a couple papers a year and some bloggers talk about it every once in a while doesn’t mean that it isn’t an grossly ignored topic.