Technologies of Cooperation. By Howard Rheingold, via Seb Paquet and Ed Bilodeau.
At MIT they’re currently conducting
a survey of weblog authors: the MIT Weblog Survey. I’ve completed it and it’s painless and the survey itself is very well built (it works in the browser and the questions are well presented). The payoff for having completed it is that you can compare your results to the survey population. Check it out.
Michael Geist has posted
a preliminary analysis and summary of Canada’s proposed copyright bill, aka Bill C-60. Geist writes, “There is simply no denying that the lobbying efforts of the copyright owners, particularly the music industry, have paid off as they are the big winners in this bill. The bill focuses almost exclusively on creating new rights for this select group…” This is definitely a file to follow in the weeks and months ahead.
Later…Geist has followed up with a Bill C-60 Users Guide that goes through it point by point. Good reading.
There was a lot happening
in the sporting world over the weekend, but I can’t remember anything as bizarre as what happened at the US Grand Prix on Sunday: F1 begins to count the cost of its darkest hour. In short, there are two tire suppliers to the ten teams (Bridgestone and Michelin), and one of them – Michelin – determined that the tires it had supplied for the race wouldn’t be safe on the circuit. So they had all of the teams running on their product pull out of the race. The race ran, but with only 6 competitiors! Blame has being freely apportioned ever since.
The Book thing going around:
Number of books I own:
About 2000 or so, all tolled. Packed for moving, between the two of us we have about 20 boxes. That includes cookbooks!
Last books bought:
The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World, John Ralston Saul
Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
Last Book Read:
London: the Biography, Peter Ackroyd (non-fiction)
The System of the World, Neal Stephenson (fiction)
Five Books that Mean a Lot to Me:
The Famished Road, Ben Okri
Digital Delirium, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, eds. (I devoted a great deal of time working on it with the editors)
Selections from the Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci
In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje
The Deptford Trilogy (Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders), Robertson Davies
Best UnAsked Meme Question:
What is the breakdown of fiction and non-fiction in your reading habits? How do you account for this?
Tag Five People with this Meme:
AJ (West of the Expressway)
Ed (Blork blog)
Kevin (Mobtown Blues)
Patrick (i.never.nu)
Heather (Lectio.ca)
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