Institute Of Network Cultures, Koolaid Is The New “Kritikal� Options Rating

[Jon Awbrey]

The Institute of Network Cultures maintains an engaging complex of activities, blogs, conferences, discussion groups, and assorted websites. A lot of what I read there is bit too much the Helium Hermenautical Armchair (HeHa) for my down-to-earth tastes, but I do see a concerted effort toward real understanding that is but rarely encountered these days.

I'll just collect a few links here �

Institute of Network Cultures : Main Portal

Society of the Query : Collaborative Research Blog

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[Jon Awbrey]

CPOV Listings …

Geert Lovink posted notice of a First Monday article by Jutta Haider and Olaf Sundin, titled “Beyond the Legacy of the Enlightenment? � Online Encyclopaedias as Digital Heterotopias�.

On that same topia, er, topic, Andrew Famiglietti posted notice of his essay, “Tasty Theory Clusters�, found on his blog, Hackers, Cyborgs, and Wikipedians.

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[Jon Awbrey]

Joseph Reagle posted notice of his essay, “Wikipedia : The Happy Accident�, on the CPOV List.

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[Kelly Martin]

Joseph Reagle posted notice of his essay, “Wikipedia : The Happy Accident�, on the CPOV List.

What bollocks. I absolutely refuse to believe that nobody believed in a "writable web" prior to the invention of wikis, if for no other reason than that I myself had the idea (even if I never implemented it) as far back as 1993. And if someone of my puny intellect had the idea, I'm sure others did too.

[Jon Awbrey]

Joseph Reagle posted notice of his essay, “Wikipedia : The Happy Accident�, on the CPOV List.

What bollocks. I absolutely refuse to believe that nobody believed in a "writable web" prior to the invention of wikis, if for no other reason than that I myself had the idea (even if I never implemented it) as far back as 1993. And if someone of my puny intellect had the idea, I'm sure others did too.

I attended my first seminars on “Groupware� at U of M in 1985–1986, where research entrepreneurs from Business, Cognitive Psych, and EECS were building a joint co-lab for stuff like that, and they were a few years behind the MIT Media Lab. I'm hardly what anyone would call an early adopter when it it comes to any kind of technology, so I know that all this was probably already old hat by then.

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