CALIOPOLIS

Kevin Kelly’s New York Times Magazine article "Scan This Book" sure has stirred up a lot of comment in the blogosphere with worthy commentary at Teleread, Nick Carr (including excellent comments from Kevin Kelly himself) and a promise of future comment and the full text of the article at Sivacracy.net. Whenever I read articles about […]

Reading an interesting article in the New York Times today titled "Scan This Book" by Kevin Kelly that had some numbers that I thought I would have some fun playing with… "… From the days of Sumerian clay tablets till now, humans have"published" at least 32 million books, 750 million articles and essays,25 million songs, […]

From page 120-121 of Benkler’s Wealth of Networks … "… Goods, services, and resources that, in the industrial stage of the information economy required large-scale, concentrated capital investment to provision, are now subject to a changing technological environment that can make sharing a better way of achieving the same results than can states, markets, or […]

Along with Dave Hambourger of Winston & Strawn, I gave a presentation at the 2006 ABA Techshow this morning. As promised this post contains the links to the Powerpoint slides and an MP3 recordings of the talk. Slides – JohnMayerABATechShow3.ppt MP3 (61 minutes/11 MB) – ABATechSHow.mp3 The talk was called Communications, Convergence and the Virtual […]

Two snippets from Wealth of Networks … "…the networked information environment offers us a more attractive cultural production system in two distinct ways: (1) it makes culture more transparent, and (2) it makes culture more malleable…" and, "… culture is becoming more democratic: self-reflective and participatory…" Both are from page 15. My interests lie in […]

Professor Yochai Benkler of Yale Law School has a new book out that promises to be stimulating and revelatory. I have ordered my copy from Amazon and have also started to read the free PDF version he provides under Creative Commons license from his website. I expect this to expand on thinking that was first […]

I was reading an interesting article over at the TeleRead blog titled "ThoutReader Meets Scholarly Book: An Experiment and Review" and one particular passage really caught my eye. "…Until hardware comes out that makes me feel like I’m reading a bookinstead of cruising the web, the decrease in concentration caused by myweb-ADD will constrain me […]

This screencast from the ACLU is funny and unnerving. [Note: requires Flash] If you want to get really creeped out, read David Brin’s "The Transparent Socity". A book he wrote some years ago, but it tells a chilling tale and also offers hope and solutions for dealing with universal lack of privacy.

danah boyd is one of the most insightful bloggers on the net and in a recent post she talks about "super publics". "…In talking about "super publics," I want to get at the altered state ofpublics – what publics look like when they are infused with thefeatures of digital architectures. What does it mean to […]

On Monday January 9th, 2006, Prof. Jennifer Martin at Western New England College of Law recorded her Business Organizations class and posted the lecture to her Classcaster blog becoming the first law professor to podcast her course using the Classcaster system. This first podcast launches an ambitious CALI project that will see over 50 faculty […]