Friday, May 16, 2008

tweets o' the day

  • 04:06 touchdown BOS. travel tip: don't sit in seat 10F on a red-eye; exit row doesn't recline
  • 05:58 sitting in Austin Hall watching folks trickle in for #berkman at 10. Glad to see Ethan Zuckerman's here sans eye patch
  • 07:21 Zittrain: Cerf says possibly a quarter of a billion machines have code awaiting instructions to do something (heckuva sleeper cell) #berkman
  • 07:22 Zittrain explaining the way internet routing works ("best efforts routing" or "Send it and pray") #berkman
  • 07:28 Zittrain: a plus chart with hierarchy/polyarchy on horiz axis and top-down/bottom-up on vert axis. Internet at polyarchy/bu corner #berkman
  • 07:32 Zittrain: "this just in -- the internet's down" "Should we tell someone?" "we can't -- the internet's down" more humor at #berkman
  • 07:41 Zittrain: we're looking at the end of the PCas we know it (away from swiss army knife does-it-all poorly& into specialized tools) #berkman
  • 07:48 Zittrain: Facebook terms of use allow FB to kill any FB app at any time for any reason. Could you see Gates doing it with windows? #berkman
  • 07:51 Zittrain: experiment shows getting rid of warning signs at intersecton, accident rates go down - drivers depend on social contract #berkman
  • 07:57 Zittrain: robots.txt doesn't have to be obeyed, but it is. It's an example of the ethics of the Net , the social content/contract #berkman
  • 08:17 Zittrain: mentions the informal "slug liines" system in DC that enables on-the-fly ridesharing. I remember slugging in DC - nice! #berkman
  • 08:26 listening to @ethanz say "I'm fine, surgery went well, thanks for asking" for the 100th time. He needs a t-shirt that says as much. #berkman
  • 08:46 John Palfrey (ED of Berkman last 6 years) now talking about the Politics of the Internet here at #berkman at 10
  • 08:49 Palfrey: Growth and Gov't argument: The internet allows more speech from more people than ever before #berkman
  • 08:51 Now @ethanz (from the audience) giving the history of Global Voices Online as a way for many more people to have voice online #berkman
  • 08:54 a blindfolded @ethanz says "we've gone from int'l news being a supply problem to a demand problem" #berkman
  • 09:19 Rob Faris (snurl.com/28zrn) talking about the slope of the freedom curve in regards to blocked Farsi blogs #berkman
  • 09:21 Where govts are censoring net content, Info getting shared via memory sticks, so censorship is getting routed around by the network #berkman
  • 09:25 Joshua Kauffman (snurl.com/28zsv) talking about his work via REGIONAL of getting content into/around Cuba via flash drives #berkman
  • 09:33 listening to @ethanz agree with Esther Dyson that we don't need to fix the tech, we need to fix the people. the internets is people #berkman
  • 09:40 watching a YouTube vid of Cuban Students Criticizing the Government snurl.com/28zxi #berkman
  • 09:45 now YouTube of the student who criticized the Cuban govt talking about why he was "picked up" (detained) snurl.com/28zyf #berkman
  • 11:34 Wales: Neutral POV is absolute and non-negotiable. Via mutually assured destruction inherent in wiki editing: u write for the enemy #berkman
  • 11:36 Wales: at wikipedia strive for consensus rather than majority rule: rewrite until all by most unreasonable can agree #berkman
  • 11:39 Benkler: speaking on Cooperation, Human Systems Design, and Peer Production at #berkman
  • 11:42 Benkler: Tells of path of encyclopedia price: $5000 for 32 paper volumes, $500 for CD version, $29 for online version, now free #berkman
  • 11:43 Benkler: For Encyc Brit threat is not the money, it is the threat of authority over knowledge. learning comes from discussion #berkman
  • 11:45 Benkler: now it's all about collaborating to uncover all kinds of information both entertainingly and impactful #berkman
  • 11:47 Benkler: we're seeing collab production move from quirky and on the side to become the mainstream. Control is deeded to the user #berkman
  • 11:51 Benkler: good change a technical legal organizational system that is closed shifts to a more open system (more human agency) #berkman
  • 11:53 Benkler: We're moving from frame of network-life to huger frame of human production where there's ample room for cooperation #berkman
  • 11:56 Benkler: when you frame something as monetary payment, you crowd out the framing of it as friendship or good will #berkman
  • 11:56 Benkler: how do we replace the rational actor model with something that's much more applicable to the cooperative world we're in? #berkman
  • 12:08 Wales: easy to be rude to someone you'll never see again. Hard to be rude to someone you'll be working with regularly #berkman
  • 12:10 Wales: thinks they had problem with growth in th amount of tradition, jargon in the community. gets hard with too much jargon. #berkman
  • 12:11 retweeting @jacallina: Jimmy : People should not have to become expert wikipedians to join in the conversation. #berkman
  • 12:14 Wales: who decides when someone's important enough to be included in Wkipedia? the community does. is a complex & difficult issue #berkman
  • 12:30 Wales: intentional vulnerability is very important , absolute security is broken. good should cost less, bad should cost more #berkman
  • 12:39 question from @ethanz asking if there's a participation gap. Is some of activity we celebrate putting up cultural barriers to entry #berkman
  • 12:40 Benkler disagrees with word incentives (v sustainability) for this behavior. We need to think about money incentives and who's paid #berkman
  • 12:42 Wales: Correlation for participation is wealth. In most parts of world, don't have time for wiki, there are more pressing needs. #berkman
  • 13:25 Dyson: self-proclaimed court jester. since she's "retired" she gets to do whatever she likes. #berkman
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