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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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Friday, December 28, 2001
Set of links forwarded by Jim Warren to Dave Farber's 'Interesting People' email list (original message from Michael Ravnitzky to the FOI-L list... these things do bounce around). This is a telecom disaster planning report from the National Communications System. Especially interesting is part 2, which has information and charts about natural disasters in the U.S. Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Shoe-bomber Richard Reid discovered Islam in a UK prison, studied at a south London mosque, and drifted from mainstream Islam, attracted by "more extreme elements." How many of these guys are out there?Link (BBC News) Thanks to mcdee for the pointer! Sunday, December 23, 2001 The Electronic Frontier Foundation's been working hard to protect 'cyber' liberties since my cursor knew only an amber-on-black command line in the lands of DOS and unix. kuro5hin was good enough to remember, and suggest you join the EFF, which is still doing critical work (consider the cases of Ed Felten or Dmitry Sklyarov, recent examples of EFF's effectiveness). Go to EFF and give them more money! Saturday, December 22, 2001  Whacky Ann Coulter figures we (meaning the US of A) should attack France as the next move in the war on T-t-t-t-t-terrorism. I figure Ms Coulter's been eating too many electric petits-fours; dig it:
The Great Satan is wearying of this reverse hegemony, in which little pip-squeak nations try to impose their pip-squeak values on us. Aren't we the ones who should be arrogantly oppressing countries that unaccountably do not have the death penalty?Pretty weird. A passenger with explosive shoes evidently tried the suicide bomb thing about American flight 63 from Paris to Miami today. Next time you fly, make sure the rest of the passengers are barefoot, okay? Friday, December 21, 2001 From Disinformation: trash: it's what's for christmas. Reminder that the megtons of garbage we throw away has to go somewhere. Americans produce more and more garbage, dumping into hermetically-sealed landfills where it can't decompose. "Wake up and smell the garbage." Thursday, December 20, 2001 We had an H.G. Wells flash when we read the lede on this piece, which refers to a Time Machine, which is actually a machine for analyzing television broadcasts and finding frames that can be dropped to create extra commercial space for local television stations to exploit. Wednesday, December 19, 2001 Our compadres at Adbusters set up their own snitch line, where you can rat on zealous federales who have the idea that terrorists blew up the First Amendment. Do your part! From Hacker Network: If operating systems were beers. Put 'em on ice, preferably in the bathtub. For grads, and liberties, an uncertain future — California State University graduation speech delivered by Sacramento Bee editor Janis Besler Healphy, in which she stresses the importance of preserving civil liberties post-Sept 11. She was heckled off the stage, so she didn't get to the final paragraph: "America was founded on the belief that the freedom to think as you will and speak as you think are essential to democracy. Only by exercising those rights can you ensure their continued existence." Tuesday, December 18, 2001 Plastic wasn't in the bit bucket after all! Turns out Carl bought the whole dinkum drum and was doing a bit of remolding..  What part of NO don't you understand? Saturday, December 15, 2001 The death of Plastic. "Hard to break, easy to clean." Here's one for Jargon Watch: Vmyths.com has coined the term hystericane (hysteria hurricane) for the winds of panic that blow computer virus hoaxes into our laps (or laptops). Tuesday, December 11, 2001 America Loves to Hate the Mouse... a Washington Post article with everything you never wanted to know about Walt Disney. (In 1958 or so my parents took my older brother and I to Disneyland, where he lured me into a forbidden hallway at the Fantasyland castle, leading to a balcony overlooking the park. We were so busted... people yelling at us to come down here and catching us on the way down. Us? No, ME. My brother hung back while a couple of Disney's cranky droids grilled me... Didn't I see the sign? etc. The embarrassment haunted me for years, shaped my life, caused dreams in which I saw Walt fall to his death from one ride or another at the park.... but I never stopped reading Carl Barks' Uncle Scrooge, and it was the duck that salvaged my world-view. Monday, December 10, 2001
The State Department's presenting a set of photo essays — New York City: Three Months After. Richard Reeves to John Ashcroft: THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DISSENT AND TREASON. A response to Ashcroft's "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists."That quote's kind of obscure, though. If anybody's got a translation, send me email! Wednesday, December 05, 2001 Just spent three days at the Fourth National Community Network Conference. More on th is later, but take a look at The Blacksburg Electronic Village, a leading community network, led capably by Andrew Cohill,, whose presentation yesterday was a highlight of the conference. Andrew has picked up on Dee Hock's concept of chaordic alliance. (Link to pdf of Cohill's "Thinking Chaordically: The future of communities and technology").  |
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  |
