Dear friends and collegues, We are happy to announce the Digital Pluralism – UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003 at IAMAS Please find our website and instructions for submissions in 10 languages at: http://www.iamas.ac.jp/unesco_award 1.) AWARD: The award is organized in collaboration between IAMAS Gifu, Japan and the UNESCO Digi-Arts Portal , Paris. The award consists […]

War is the major social issue that has pushed all others to the side since shortly after the turn of the millennium. Those who believed that more peaceful times would follow the end of the Cold War were forced to learn a lesson: War remains the father of all things, even though its appearance, its […]

so you think you know how it works?

.org registry vanishes into thin air. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear [The Register] i can here the silence for pir and isoc already, it is immense and foreboding.

Help Restore the Public Domain. Larry Lessig has posted this important plea for your assistance in bringing back a public domain in the face of… [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] I'll be writing my representatives within the next few days.

Browsing at the Art and Culture Automat. Cyberlicious: the Art and Culture Network. In a lo-brow search for “bubblicious”, I happened upon the hi-brow and highly browse-friendly, ACN. Why? Because “bubblicious” is one of its in-site “keyword” searches, describing that quality “shared by champagne, soap foam, hot air balloons, and gum… lighter than air, ephemeral, […]

Psychology has failed?. Psychology has failed. It's not often that an entire academic discipline collapses, but according to Peter Watson, author of A Terrible Beauty, that's what is happening to Psychology. “….it has failed technologically, philosophically and is already in an advanced stage of decomposition.” [more inside] [MetaFilter] I guess you need to look around […]

Today's most buried headline. This week's most buried headline could be a real stinker this week for the Pentagon. Apparently over $1 trillion are missing as well as “dozens of tanks, missiles and planes.” [MetaFilter] sounds to me like someone has been funding worldwide terror campaigns again….. who? those that benefit most, i think.

A Market Solution to the History Job Market Problem?. I am a 33-year-old historian with three monographs (published by Cambridge University Press, Greenwood, and Rowman & Littlefield), a forthcoming six-volume edited series, and scores of book chapters, refereed articles, book reviews, paid speaking appearances, and the like to my… [Invisible Adjunct] where the analysis fails […]

Consumer Technology Bill of Rights. Within minutes, I also signed up with DigitalConsumer.org and faxed a letter of support for the Consumer Technology Bill of Rights. The bill is a simple, positive assertion of the rights that consumers have had until recently. These include: The right to “time-shift” media (recording a TV show and watching […]