Points of interest:
= the divide between the interface and the machinations of technology. I am preoccupied with ideas of artifice and representations. The idea of windows/desktops/folders (hyperreal models of metaphors?) or point-and-click OS is an interesting instance of my preoccupations. I understand, to some degree, the nature of how the personal computer [...]
Ok, reading a online text poses unique challenges to my note taking methodology. So, I’m going to try something like a command-c-v style…Thesechanges haveincreasedtheroleof nonmarket andnonproprietaryproduc-tion, bothbyindividuals aloneandbycooperativeefforts inawiderangeof looselyor tightlywovencollaborations. Thesenewlyemergingpracticeshaveseenremarkablesuccessinareasasdiverseassoftwaredevelopmentandinvestigativereporting, avant-gardevideoandmultiplayeronlinegames. To-gether, theyhint at theemergenceof anewinformationenvironment, oneinwhichindividuals arefreetotakeamoreactiverolethanwaspossibleintheindustrial informationeconomyofthetwentiethcentury.(ok, this copy/paste from pdf is screwy: creative commons control?)Have these changes increased the role, [...]
