Referring to his unauthorized use of material for his major "Histoire(s) du cinema" Jean Luc Godard said in an interview in 1996:

Amit Singhal, Google Fellow has written a series of "official" posts explaing how google creates its ranking system. It's light on details, but gives an impression of the enormeous complexity of search engines.

Hadn't know this journal before.Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
From the most recent issue:

CLIVE LAWSON An Ontology of Technology: Artefacts, Relations and Functions

This is an older text, from 2005, but it's still one of the best on the issue of the paradoxical relationship between the attempts to privatize knowledge and its inherent tendency to be social, because it's based on a shared language.

The gentrye are all round, on each side they are found,
Theire wisdom’s so profound, to cheat us of our ground
Stand up now, Diggers all.
The Diggers’ Song, Gerrard Winstanley & Leon Rosselson

First Monday published my paper in its current edition. Below is the abstract, the full text is here

Hype Machine is a blog that aggregates music blogs and automatically generates playlists and let's you "spy" on what other people are doing on the blog.

http://reason.com/blog/show/127444.html

Uh, things are getting interesting. Open Source, capable of producing a working copy of itself. A bit geeky still, but who knows for how long.
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