BRINGING TOGETHER THE GLOBAL CREATIVE COMMUNITY FOR EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE BOOK 'DESIGNERS ARE WANKERS'

Social network sites (SNSes) like MySpace, Facebook, and Bebo are ubiquitous and today’s youth are spending a great deal of time using these sites to access public life. How is public life shaped by social technology?

Imagine a world in which Socrates not only originated the dialogue form of inquiry but also filed a patent claiming "intellectual property" rights for his invention and then vigorously enforced his patent against the Sophists to ensure the "purity" of his

do web developers just complicate the process of getting an online presence? excellent food for thought.

Automation - the distribution of digitized course material online, without the participation of professors who develop such material - is often justified as an inevitable part of the new "knowledge-based" society.

Neither copyright nor patent law prohibit copying fashion designs. No law prohibits a knock-off Chanel suit, peasant skirt or narrow lapel. And yet fashion is highly innovative, with new styles several times a year, despite low IP protection.

a book by Bruce Damer (full version in HTML)

Design for Community is a book by Derek M. Powazek about how to design and build community features on the web. The book is the result of six years of experience in the web biz and ten months of full-time writing and editing.

Amidst this startling growth it is the producers of these worlds who are confronting in practical terms unprecedented challenges of governing what are in many cases fundamentally open–ended, yet architected, environments.

The advances in data-processing that revolutionised office work from the mid-1960s on – and later invaded everyday life – created special challenges for type designers.

good pov on the kathy sierra case and o'reilly's code of conduct

project group chat + file sharing

The essence of the Overton window is that only a portion of [the total] policy spectrum is within the realm of the politically possible at any time. Regardless of how vigorously a think tank or other group may campaign, only policy initiatives within this

by danah boyd

Linden
Labs has not licensed the fonts [FF Meta] which should be distributed to some 4 million computers by now. So: Delete them immediately!

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.

I've started a large handful but no one knows about most of them because they were (in no particular order): dumb ideas, unsuccessful, too hard for me to complete.

People playing videogames (and a lovely site layout)

cats + captions = joygasm :D