Nick Denton: why does the weblog form thrive? Because individual authors take responsibility for the content and context, and benefit personally from their investment. What do you think? [] links to this post 8:50:34 PM
Also, take a look at Denham Grey's notes on Knowledge Sharing (there is a link to this in the comments on this post, but the link is broken because of an extra double-quote (") character.
A primer on distributed computing. Say you've got a big computation task to perform. Perhaps you have found a way to cure cancer, or you want to look for aliens. All you need is a few super computers to work out some calculations, but you've only got the one PC on your desk. What to do? A popular solution is the "distributed computing" model, where the task is split up into smaller chunks and performed by the many computers owned by the general public. This guide shows you how. [kuro5hin.org]
Collins said in a recent interview that most business people join a church. The Church of Marketing. The Church of Finance. The Church of Strategy. and so on. In the process, you often take on the world view of your church. You frame problems with that view and you are perceived as coming from that church.
Collins wants to be from the Church of Questions, a place where asking the right question has enduring value. I'll take a good question over a great answer any time.
For whatever reason these artists decided not to license their material, the net effect is that more entrenched, "legitimate" sampling artists are preventing lesser known, struggling sampling artists from doing what the legitimate artists probably wish they could have done years ago: sample without hindrance to create new works....
As computers and software programs get more and more powerful with each passing year, as file-sharing networks make it simple for anyone to share their work with the world, and as it is next to impossible to outlaw digital editing software (which has plenty of legitimate uses), bootlegs and remixes will likely be a part of the cultural landscape for years to come. Bootlegging may even evolve into something of a hobby for tens of thousands of desktop producers who will spend their free time splicing together the latest top 40 hits for kicks, like model-airplane builders.
A fascinating essay about the interactivity of today's culture, which is what will surround Net Gens as they grow up. They view everything around them as multimodal and interactive, especially things you and I take for granted as static and don't even notice. Everything is flexible, shift-able, mixable, and interactive to them.
