Friday, July 04, 2003

R.I.P., Barry White, at 58. (CNN via NewsIsFree: Popular Items.) 8:08:37 PM    comment []

Bath and Body from Around the World, including black soap from The Soap Bar. (This is yet another cleaning out result -- it was mentioned in one of Phil Agre's "notes and recommendations.") 4:20:54 PM    comment []

declaration of independence -- copyrighted. JD Lasica has a nice catch. Apparently, the Boston Globe has copyrighted the Declaration of Independence. But see 17 USC §506(c). [Lessig Blog] 3:24:24 PM    comment []

Resumes for a New Millennium 12:20:16 PM    comment []

Fake or Real? Test your ability to tell which among the array of images are real, and which are CG. If you want a closer look, click the image to see a larger view of the picture. Once you've decided what's what, click either CG or REAL to begin the tally of your score. Work through each of the ten images. When you've finished, you'll be prompted to get your score. 10:20:09 AM    comment []

Story on Monday's book chain (quoting me!): Library move links book lovers, by Robbi Courtaway, Of The Suburban Journals Webster-Kirkwood Journal. 10:20:05 AM    comment []

Now playing at The Well's publically accessible Inkwell.vue, A conversation with Bill Ayers Former Weatherman Bill Ayers' most recent book, Fugitive Days, is a memoir that chronicles the anti-war movement of the '60s, the Weather Underground, and his life on the run. Bill is a school reform activist and Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is founder of the Center for Youth and Society and founder and co-director of the Small Schools Workshop. He has written extensively about social justice, democracy, and education including Teaching for Social Justice and A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court. His interests focus on the political and cultural contexts of schooling as well as the meaning and ethical purposes of teachers, students, and families. Non-members: email questions and conversational contributions to the Inkwell.vue hosts. 10:20:00 AM    comment []

Eszter will be blogging for Planned Parenthood as part of Blogathon. She writes: I have committed to blogging for 24 hours straight starting at 9am (East coast US time) on Saturday July 26th until 9am on Sunday July 27th. I am collecting donations for charity. My charity of choice is Planned Parenthood. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America works toward assuring that people all over the world have the freedom to make reproductive decisions. They do this by providing access to services and education. You can Sponsor Eszter or find out more about Planned Parenthood Federation of America 8:19:40 AM    comment []

Government Prying, the Good Kind. The government has endless ways of keeping tabs on Americans and what they're up to. Now the Government Information Awareness site turns the tables, letting you keep an eye on your government officials. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 6:09:43 AM    comment []

Internet regulation in China, by Peter Bullock, ComputerWorld, Hong Kong. While the instruments of control continue to be firmly in place, the practical ability to monitor and block content and communications regarded as undesirable, whether generated within China or outside, is now stretched to breaking point. 4:18:52 AM    comment []

More cleaning out leads to Attention Shoppers!: The currency of the New Economy won't be money, but attention -- A radical theory of value. By Michael H. Goldhaber, in Wired magazine (1997). We've turned a corner toward an economy where an increasing number of workers are no longer involved directly in the production, transportation, and distribution of material goods, but instead earn their living managing or dealing with information in some form. Most call this an "information economy." Yet, ours is not truly an information economy. By definition, economics is the study of how a society uses its scarce resources. And information is not scarce - especially on the Net, where it is not only abundant, but overflowing. We are drowning in information, yet constantly increasing our generation of it. So a key question arises: Is there something else that flows through cyberspace, something that is scarce and desirable? There is. No one would put anything on the Internet without the hope of obtaining some. It's called attention. And the economy of attention - not information - is the natural economy of cyberspace. Attention has its own behavior, its own dynamics, its own consequences. An economy built on it will be different than the familiar material-based one. For the past decade I have been exploring how this new system will work. This article is a rough outline of where we are headed. 3:18:42 AM    comment []