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Hyperlinked Society: Web 2.0

By alex | Published: 6/9/2006
I’ve seen some discussion lately on the iDC list on whether Web 2.0 is just another buzzword meant to drove a new dot.com boom. The panel today begins with Nicholas Carr and Martin Nisenholtz, talking almost chiefly about the economics of “unbundling” content. Jimmy Wales follows on this with an interesting economic position. He notes […]
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Hyper-dinner

By alex | Published: 6/8/2006
There was a dinner for the Hyperlinked Society panelists tonight. For those of you who know how profoundly uncomfortable I am in the presence of other humans, you would be shocked to find that I actually managed to be reasonably nonmisanthropic. I didn’t get a chance to chat with Jay Rosen and David Weinberger, but […]
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Congratulations to Maria Garrido

By alex | Published: 6/7/2006
Friend and sometime collaborator Maria Garrido has successfully defended her dissertation at the University of Washington. The title (correct me if I am wrong) is “The importance of transnational solidarity networks in development: Lessons from the Zapatista Movement in the quest for building alternative development models at the grassroots level.” She’s been busy over the […]
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BookDrive DIY

By alex | Published: 5/29/2006
Well, not quite DIY, I suppose, but a bit closer. The BookDrive DIY is a platform for scanning books. Unlike machines that are substantially more expensive, this one makes you turn the page. I wonder how much it costs to hire a page-turner. It seems like highly outsourceable work, but when you don’t DIY, it […]
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