Bruce Sterling's Blog, page 777

Video at Reboot11

http://video.reboot.dk/

 

*What you see here is more or less what you get — minus the actual speeches and workshops.

 

*Hands-on encounters like that Reboot Arduino workshop can't be done in video.  Very glad

I went to that.

Le Monde: L'internet des objets va-t-il changer la nature des objets?

http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2009/06/26/l-internet-des-objets-va-t-il-changer-la-nature-des-objets_1211801_651865_2.html

 

"Le recyclage des objets est le point essentiel de ma théorie", rappelle Bruce Sterling.

I’m watching Swedish Pirate Party leader Rick Falvinge advance his political policies

At Reboot 11.

 

The official Pirate Party platform:

Right to privacy as a free citizen

Government transparency, accountability

Strengthen due process of law  (((that demand sure must be a first for pirates)))

Reduce copyright

Abolish patents (especially software and pharmaceutical patents)

THE PIRATE PARTY IS THE NEXT GENERATION’S CIVIL LIBERTIES MOVEMENT!

Our total campaign budget for 2009?  Fifty thousand US dollars!

http://www.piratpartiet.se/donate

 

(((Meanwhile, a Swedish leftist complains that Rick a

A guide to international science fiction by international science fiction practitioners

http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/06/mind-meld-guide-to-international-sff-part-i/

 

Stuff like this makes me hurt all over….

Misty Caverns of Enceladus

*This is right out of Golden Age 1930s space opera.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8115148.stm

 

*You know what lives in those misty space caverns?  Blind bug-eyed monsters.

Swarms of ‘em.

Live Media: 35,000 year old bone flute

*Some of these mediated activities tend to hang on quite a while.

 

*I’d be betting good money that this Neanderthal-contemporary flute music

not only existed: it had accompanying oral poetry, and it had *genres.*

The guy who build this flute was accompanying people singing, and

they were singing something that, even to them, was very, very old.

 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/...

 

Found in the Ach Valley of southern Germany, the nearly intact five-hole flut

Spime Watch: Thingiverse

http://www.thingiverse.com/

“Welcome to the Thingiverse. This is a place to share digital designs that can be made into real, physical objects. Let’s create a better universe, together!”

 

 

 

The Global Internet Activism Course

*This is a nice change of pace from constantly framing any online

anti-establishment political action as cyberwar cyberwar cyberwar

soft-terror cyberwar cyberwar.

 

*Trebor Scholz:
“While I agree that all that talk of a “Twitter revolution” in Iran is
completely overblown and self-serving, Twitter, Facebook, and SMS did affect
protests in the Philippines (2003/2005), Ukraine (2005), Egypt (FB, April
6th Movement), February 15, 2003  (worldwide), the RNC in NYC (2004), France
(2005), Spain (2004), Burma a

I am in Koebenhavn for Reboot 11

*Matt Webb about to go on stage.

 

http://www.reboot.dk/page/21733/en

 

*You wanna know what design in Denmark feels like?  Check out the interactive interaction design on

this interactive site for a Danish institute of interaction design.

http://ciid.dk/

Spime Watch: ThingLink News

*Mmmm, Web 2.0 designery.

 

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