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Murdoch predicts end for media Barons

gregcollver — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 16:32:54 GMT

Murdoch predicts end for media Barons
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The Guardian online has just published an article in which Murdoch envisages the end for the editors, the chief executives and the proprietors… well not quite the end but he too is certain that unless traditional publishers adapt to the new technologies that challenge their niche business will fail. He declares:

“It is difficult, indeed dangerous, to underestimate the huge changes this
revolution will bring or the power of developing technologies to build and
destroy - not just companies but whole countries.”

The article is fairly pompous and terrifically vague but if you feel the need to keep up with Murdoch and his thoughts on the future of publishing click here to have a look.

http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/03/16/murdoch-predicts-end-for-media-barons/

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Dingpolitik

gregcollver — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:35:22 GMT

How to make things public:

http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/articles/article/96-DINGPOLITIK2.html

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should i participate in a government panel?

gregcollver — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:17:28 GMT

No, not me, Apophenia, from her blog:

December 15, 2005

"should i participate in a government panel?

I'm torn and i need some advice. I was asked to be on a panel at an upcoming CIA conference "with the objective of providing extensive insight into how terrorists can and likely will use cyberspace for influence purposes." They want to understand how blogs and Friendster work. They seem to be running a series of conferences, including a cyber one, one with religious and non-profit groups, one with advertising and PR groups, and one with entertainment and gaming folks... all to get "insight" from experts to understand the terrorist schtuff.

My first inclination is to object on moral grounds. I am violently opposed to PATRIOT and how the government and military are using technology to track civilians under the umbrella of finding terrorists. I object to the culture of fear being perpetuated and the "if you aren't with us, you're against us" attitude. I have major systemic issues with our government and its exploitation of power. Major issues.

Of course, part of me wonders if i can learn from these folks and use this platform to change people's minds (or maybe be a little bit subversive). The audience is purportedly "group of between 40 and 50 high level intelligence managers and policy analysts from the Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Intelligence Agency, U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Special Operations Command, Office of Naval Intelligence, and various other unified military commands."

I'm also worried because the terrorists make sense to me in the same way that punks who steal and kids who blow up schools make sense. These groups feel as though they will never have agency within the system because the systemic hegemony is too oppressive. They seek to overthrow the oppressor through brute force, to disrupt the system from its core and rattle the foundations that blind everyone to the problems of the system. Of course, in every case, the system does a good job in keeping the mainstream blinders on so that these acts are only ever seen as wrong instead of as attempts to wake up the mass zombie culture. I don't support these groups' violence and i think machismo clouds the efforts to make change. But it's the same attitudes that make Fakesters and goths utterly lovable to me - same concept, no violence.

Given this perspective, i'm worried that there's no way that i could ever change the minds of military folks because the core values are so different. I'm worried that my efforts to influence will simply be repurposed and manipulated, no matter what i do. I'm worried that i will become a tool of the kinds of oppression that i loathe and the lack of understanding that angers me. I don't want to eliminate terrorism by force; i want to see a cultural change that makes it unnecessary and unvalued. But is there any way that i can do that by participating? I'm not sure...

Anyhow, i'm torn. Thoughts? Perspectives?

It's funny... i sat in traffic on the Bay Bridge for an hour last night and i kept reading the bumper sticker in front of me. "Join the army and go to exotic distant lands so you can meet exciting new people and then kill them." ::sigh:: I don't want to be that anthropologist that helps the colonial empire destroy the world and abuse its privileges. "

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/12/15/should_i_partic.html

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The Power of Us

gregcollver — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:29:14 GMT

How Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_25/b3938601.htm

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Internet Organizing that has shifted the ground...

orlandooffthedeepend — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:20:11 GMT

too many examples to site... your favorites?

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The Rise of Netpolitik: How the Internet is Changing International Politics and Diplomacy

gregcollver — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:56:03 GMT

How are the Internet and other digital technologies changing the conduct of world affairs? Read this Aspen report and find out. (NOTE: Click on the PDF link on this page for the report).

www.aspeninstitute.org/site/a...uct.asp

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World Summit on the Information Society

gregcollver — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:29:15 GMT

Declaration of Principles
Building the Information Society: a global challenge in the new Millennium

http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html

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Library of Congress Proposal for a World Digital Library

gregcollver — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:56:57 GMT

Library of Congress Proposal for a World Digital Library
www.loc.gov/about/welcom...l_6-6-05.html

This link has some parallel references to the power of the internet as NetPolitik:

"The invention of the printing press with movable type fanned religious wars in the 16th century. The onset of telegraphy, photography, and the power-driven printing press in the 19th century created mass journalism that fulminated nationalistic passions and world wars in the 20th century. The arrival in the late 20th century of instantaneous, networked, global communication may well have facilitated the targeted propaganda, recruitment, and two-way communication of transnational terrorist organizations more than it has helped combat them. "

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