Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
22 July, 2008 - 14:56 by felixHadn'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
Stephen Wright, Digging in the Epistemic Commons
18 July, 2008 - 14:17 by felixThis 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
Bourgeois anarchism and authoritarian democracies (First Monday, 07.2008)
10 July, 2008 - 18:26 by felixFirst Monday published my paper in its current edition. Below is the abstract, the full text is here
Another Music Recommendation Engine
10 July, 2008 - 14:04 by felixHype 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.
De-Liberalization of user rights
9 July, 2008 - 14:04 by felixOpen Source 3D Printer
8 July, 2008 - 03:32 by felixUh, things are getting interesting. Open Source, capable of producing a working copy of itself. A bit geeky still, but who knows for how long.
Source: http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
7 July, 2008 - 16:00 by felix
G8 summit aims to stop piracy once and for all
4 July, 2008 - 13:28 by felixMore draconian measures that will cause pain if implemented, but not "solve" the problem.
80% want legal P2P - survey
3 July, 2008 - 14:27 by felixThe Register has an interesting survey concerning the use of p2p file sharing (the sample, though, is quite small, 773 people, no word on how they were selected.)
A fascinating survey of music consumption conducted for British Music Rights has good and bad news for the beleaguered music business.