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email delivery Read Weblogsky via email:itinerary EFF-Austin Cyberdawg Social, November 2003. Austin: Wireless Future, ongoing project / meetings; conference (March 12-16) SXSW Interactive, Austin (March 12-16) Polycot Polycot helps organizations determine how to build and use effective web technologies to solve problems, build loyalty, share knowledge, and organize projects. For more information, email consult at weblogsky.com, or check out the Polycot Consulting web site. projects CEO, Polycot Consulting. Polycot is a network services company: network consulting, installation and administration, as well as web solutions (architecture and development). Member of the blog team at Another World (worldchanging.com) Co-Founder of the Austin Wireless City Project Manager of the Wireless Future Project for IC² Institute Associated with Rheingold and Associates, Online Social Networking Moderator and co-administrator at the Dean Issues Forum Writer of various interviews, reviews, essays, and articles. President of EFF-Austin Member, Board of Directors, Austin Freenet Local advisor for South by Southwest Interactive Steering Committee Member and Webmaster, Austin Clean Energy Initiative Member of the blog team for Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs weblog. Cohost of The WELL's Inkwell.vue, discussions and interviews. Webmaestro for Viridian Design Co-instigator of Austin Bloggers Member of Mindjack's Board of Advisors. links worth traveling weblogsky archives Email jonl at weblogsky.com 
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Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Jim Leftwich's version of the Frida Kahlo postage stamp, as dreamed by Norman Rockwell. Check out the text commentary, including a concise, brilliant bit of Bob Rossney flame sent to the devil's radio. Link Monday, July 30, 2001 The jet powered beer cooler is the kind of innovation I would expect from the American tropics (i.e. south Texas), but this one was built in New Zealand. [Link]. Tuesday, July 24, 2001 Tommaso Tozzi at Plexus: "Is Italy Governed by Fascists?" in Italian, German, English, and Spanish. [Link] David Hudson at rewired writes "Authorized Butchery," a thought-provoking (or anger-provoking?) piece about Genoa. [Link] Piranahas have been discovered in a Modesto, CA lake. We're trying to determine how Gary Condit was involved. [Link] Monday, July 23, 2001 Release the Russian, Adobe Says. The folks at Adobe bowed to reason and agreed that Sklyarov should be released; does this mean that he will be released? rfc791. Not quite twenty years ago, the Internet Protocol was born! A Carnegie Endowment Working Paper: The Internet and State Control in Authoritarian Regimes: China, Cuba and the Counterrevolution "It is widely believed that the Internet poses an insurmountable threat to authoritarian rule. But political science scholarship has provided little support for this conventional wisdom, and a number of case studies from around the world show that authoritarian regimes are finding ways to control and counter the political impact of Internet use." Sunday, July 22, 2001 More on Genoa violence: G8 summit riot officer on murder charge. Saturday, July 21, 2001 Who says that size doesn't matter? From The Economist: Big is Beautiful Again Friday, July 20, 2001 Do your part to protest the absurd arrest of Dmitry Sklyarov under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. From the site (created and hosted by EFF): Dmitry was arrested in Las Vegas on July 16 by the FBI, at the behest of software giant Adobe Systems Inc., after presenting a paper on cryptography software he developed in Russia. A US District Attorney (Dept. of Justice) has filed criminal charges against Dmitry in Calif., under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) for providing software that decrypts Adobe eBook files so that their content can be accessed in ways that Adobe's own software does not provide (e.g. text-to-speech translation for the blind).There's also a Boycott Adobe site, if you're into that sort of thing. It's getting hotter: Genoa Protester Who Was Shot Is Dead (from Yahoo News / Reuters). This AP story has more detail: A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, identified the victim as Carlo Giuliani, 23, a Rome native living in unoccupied buildings in the center of Genoa. He said Giuliani had a long criminal record that included weapons and drug charges.Unfortunately the nonviolent party was crashed by a few folks whose intentions were not particularly rational, resulting in chaos. Echoes of the 60s. Italia indymedia has updates on the big G8 Summit resistance jam (in English and Italian). There's also a report on Indymedia's top page... and here's the CNN report. Evidently the protest is generally nonviolent, but there are pockets of protesters who are less civil. (Interesting to note that CNN's lead photo shows and overturned car and protestors on the run, while Indymedia's photo shows a peaceful crowd of demonstrators.) Tuesday, July 17, 2001 William Faulkner on the Web: a site devoted to a fine, sometimes strange author of the American south. Faulkner created a mythopoetic universe called Yoknapatawpha County and set most of his stories there. He also wrote screenplays (collaborated on the screenplay for Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep).... Screw the 21st century... I'm goin' home to Yoknapatawpha County....... Joe Queenan willingly became Mickey Rourke for a day. 'Nuff said. My partner Jeff turned me onto Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing by Philip Greenspun. At first glance, this looks t'me like everything you need to know to build web pages that don't suck. Wednesday, July 11, 2001 This piece in UK's Independent News says that scientists report "they had vastly underestimated the rate at which global temperatures are rising. They now believe they will rise by as much as 5.8C by the end of this century, almost twice the increase predicted in their 1995 report." Wondering what George W. is thinking about this? "What the hell, if the world keeps warming, people will spend more time in their cars! And that's a good thing, right?" From Salon, an excavation of the ruins of the 'dotcom meltdown': The day the brands died (scarfted from the bOING bOING weblog). Salon's ad agency, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, conducted some focus groups to get feedback from folks who'd made online buying a part of their lives. Surprise, surprise: they miss the dotcoms. One graphic designer lays awake nights worrying about Amazon.com's viability. Friday, July 06, 2001 Found this link on Slashdot: Google Press Center: Zeitgeist. By our search terms ye shall know us. Fascinating current data about Google searches (even includes the top five misspelled entries). Thursday, July 05, 2001 Found at Slashdot: A perfect cup of coffee? This dude claims to use LED optical monitor technology to brew his coffee just so and monitor freshness based on optical density. Bet I'd still use my nose, but whatever. Wednesday, July 04, 2001 Members of the Raelian movement, described here as a UFO cult, plan to clone a human within the next year. The search for intelligent life on earth continues....
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America is one side of the Fourth of July... another is Dave Alvin's great lament:
On the stairs I smoke a cigarette alone (Dave Alvin, "Every Night About This Time", Demon Records, 1987 X, "See How We Are", Elektra, 1987)  |
interviews Interview with David Weinberger for SXSW Interactive Conference's Tech Report Discussion with Bruce Sterling at The WELL, January 3 - 17, 2003. Jon L. interview for South by Southwest Interactive conference's Tech Report. Jon L. interviewed by Adam Powell (5/13/2002) jonl interviewed by R. U. Sirius (A version of this interview appeared in The Austin Chronicle) Conversation with Bruce Sterling at the WELL's Inkwell.vue Forum Interview with R.U. Sirius at CTHEORY interview conducted by Yoshihiro Kaneda in conjunction with the publication in Japan, in the book CyberRevolution, the essay "Inforeal." interview with Allucquere Rosanne Stone. No Stone Untenured: May '98 Interview with Sandy Stone Bruce Sterling interview for bOING bOING #9 The Tedium is the Message, Assholes: Interview (for AltX) with R.U. Sirius and St. Jude Don't Believe the Hype (Austin Digerati Roundtable published January 28) Why We Listen to What They Say: Interview with Doug Rushkoff Interviews with Projecting the 21st Century: An Interview with Gary Chapman Information Junkie, an interview with Reva Basch (Researching Online for Dummies) Wired to Virtual Reality: Interview with Howard Rheingold Interview with Carla Sinclair, author of Signal to Noise Making Movies on Cyber Location: an interview with director Doug Block (Austin Chronicle, February 1998) Untangling the Web: interview with Gene Crick of MAIN and Sue Beckwith of Austin Freenet reviews Review of Paulina Borsook's Cyberselfish, in Whole Earth Magazine. review in HotWired of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Cyber Top Ten for 1997 (Austin Chronicle, December 1997) essays
What Happened to the Cyber Revolution? A Few Points about Online Activism in the March '99 issue of the UK journal Cybersociology ZapSpace, published as A Fistful of DOS in the Australian magazine 21C The Cyborganic Path from the April '97 issue of CMC Magazine Essay: Are We a Nation? We Are Devo in The Ethical Spectacle. articles Little Nemo in Slumberland (bOING bOING, February 1998) Technopolitics, a 1997 essay on cyberactivism originally appearing in the Australian magazine 21C. Your 15 Minutes Are Up, Mr. Gates!1998 Top Nine List from the Austin Chronicle! Dungeons and Draggin's: a look at the Ultima Online phenomenon "We Do Cool Things": a profile of Austin's George Sanger, aka The Fatman, and Team Fat The Opera Ain't Over 'til the Cyber Lady Sings: Honoria in Ciberspazio (Austin Chronicle, November 1997) Shout Spamalam! The Austin Spam Suit Who Are You? Who Owns You? A consideration of Amazon's privacy policy. Amicus Brief filed with Supreme Court regarding the "Communications Decency Act" 11.25.96 Freewheelin' in Austin 1.7.97 Cyberdawgs and CyberRights: EFF-Austin 2.25.97 VR in 3Space: Brian Park 1.28.97 Going Native in Cyberspace: Bob Anderson 3.25.97 A Parisian Spring in Austin: Joseph Rowe and Catherine Braslavsky 4.22.97 On a Rock and Roll Firetruck: Shawn Phillips  |
