Monthly Archive for June, 2007

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win or lose you pay your dues

we are all playing poker
are you scared

in tawfiq’s paper which i now cringe at having graded B+ in which he taught me that writing a blog is like praying, speaking to god, your audience your complement in rhetorical space

for clarity like that straight A

we feel divinity in the net, feel it in the unity of complement, the elegance of something whole made from the threads of rhetoric

epiei the moniker with which today we bought a low power fm transmitter perfect as they advertize for pirate radio bound for kingston where we are perfectly legit

88.9 fm radio bound for jamaica coming out of kingston
let’s see what you got
dred scott asking if he is a citizen
dred scott telling you he is

so sorry that i have not seen jeremy or y.s or juan carlos and all of is2k
a conference is a format
this was fred friendly framed by keynote to conversation
let us think of it as just that
a menu of attraction that could be replicated and improved upon and served by every university
charles ogletree tomorrow at Brown University on what we do with our understanding of our human genome
every school an issue with passion at its core played out in civil discouse as the framework for the form

university lies in the civility of the discourse coupled with a spirit of mischief probing for the deeper truth

suppose tawfiq that instead of coming from an environment of openness in which poker is played as a national game and democracy is our government’s core
you are of a fundamental society from the perspective of which open democracy each man each woman judging truth seems chaos

channeling charlie


the dot is not knowledge, the dot is us, we are knowledge
we are dots in small world networks of a large world network
we are the dot at the center of lessig’s matrix of what governs us

flat on my back with laptop propped before me
two excellent lines of staples lacing up my groin
in the aftermath of is2k7 wondering what happened in the afternoon
after i adjourned to the operating room
the archive of what was recorded not up yet

i wanted to write something to express my thought but wanted first to listen again to ethan’s lead off response to jp. i felt identity forming, not yet coalesced, but becoming self aware

university is a concept we express. we testify to it. we reify it with our thought and action.

nicolas negroponte
hero all around

we express it in our conference
stucture substance trajectory
we express it in our selves

now listening to my own mp3 recorded through the telephone
derek bok
mission of university
discover knowledge for its own sake
renew culture
advance civilization
achieve greater understanding of our heritage
explore the deepest problems of human existence

which reminds me, here are my notes from friday morning

TECHNOLOGY IS OUT TO FUCK YOU!

arghh!!

/anger

/shrug

just listening to derek and steve respond to terry’s questions at the outset value enough in the day. I heard in their words a charter for the future. so wonderful to here derek’s deep friendly voice speak as champion. so great to hear steve back him up with truth and science.

excellent start

what an amazing feeling to be lying on my back listening to the unfolding audio of our conference, imagined as a future event, virtual in the mind, real yet still i am imagining its reality

jp calls on terry. i’ve been there. i called on fred friendly once, him sitting in the audience yet present in my mind as dominating authority, had to wrestle to get it back

anne speaks. clear voice, moving forward, just the facts, 99.9% figure hits like a brick
way to go jp filling out .01 percent
it’s a seed

how are they registered, how are they identified, the citizen’s of the net
how will we be sure that they will stick to the use
how tight will be our information bubble in rhetorical space

just a hypothetical, humphrey bogart 20 seconds, will you do it, jeremy rises, can’t conceive of company denying, wrong of harvard counsel to ask, /clap

movie industry users of content, fighters for free speech

sid expounds harvard square principle, tells his course pak story, will he tell them that he just went ahead and copied
serious note, lack of clarity, hear fear, feel timidity

alex sounds a balance note, don’t destroy until you have new model

deighton doright’s after fame, as mercenary as anyone, hbs all the way, mammon plays his part.

okay time to turn to empathy, where is the heart of the struggling corporation, enough talking to ourselves. we need to hear from elsivier
jeremy, ys chi, the other lords of copyright came here to speak to us with us to listen. speak to us. deighton, be sure they get it out

imagine this as a kind of negotiating table, meta table
a lot of pain of university put on the table
there is pain on the other side
speak your pain
what do you want from us
what do you feel we have to offer
constitute negotiation at a meta table in second life even if just in imagination?
each affinity group controls its avatar
make an agenda, sit down and talk

will it violate chatham rules to put this on my blog? how might appropriate permission be given?

eon


when appropriate (in my judgment) to an open project and not sensitive (in my judgment) in terms of privacy, i may post email to my blog. all privacy requests respected.

is2k7 – out from under chatham rules

me: colin, are you on
Colin: yes sir!
sitting next to dorothy z.
me: hey!!
nice
Colin: hi – how’re you doing?
me: pls say hi
ok
wish i was there
how is it going
Colin: us, too.
well – tree’s been great, your message was perfect, mary did a great wrap on yesterday and jp is raising a lot of imp questions.
audience is pretty quiet so far
hoping they’ll jump in starting w/q a
me: how full is the room
Colin: pretty full – probably 80%
me: not bad
Colin: lots of repeaters from yesterday
it’s good
me: what was the vibe at the end of yesterday
Colin: hmm – it was pretty good…
i think the bok/hyman
and ff sessions were great
the first sessions were pretty productive
and the last ones could’ve been better – we
weren’t proscriptive enough
and w/so many issues on table
i think there was some wheel spinning, return to old arguments
rather than a reframe
i’d give it (hard grader that i am)
b+/a-
me: do people have thoughts about how to pull together better?
Colin: i think karim will do a good session this afternoon
he wants to take on
knowledge beyond authority
i think that’ll be good
and david w. will do a good wrap
i think yesterday was good – but a reality check:
lots of shared zones in some areas
some real contention, too
uptake on ideas of norms
but fear from lords: advocacy for drm, for university enforcement, etc.
which was not welcomed
indeed, some advocacy for digging in against it.
Sent at 10:07 AM on Friday
me: if you had to pick out one issue on which there was joinder and prospect for moving forward
Colin: the low hanging fruit seemed to be norms/procedures for fair use
the question is whether content folks
will give that up (even in their interest)
w/out enforcement.
but i think that’s trust building across sectors
mutually beneficial (reduce lawyer loads/uncertainty)
hopefully productive (more neat content)
but also will be tricky
me: are the reed elsivier folk still there
Sent at 10:12 AM on Friday
Colin: not sure – dreamt about ys chi, who i didn’t find in afternoon – i think mark seely is
Sent at 10:13 AM on Friday
me: could you get whatever corp folk together for a face to face conversation
Colin: and ask them if they’re game for that?
me: or do you think i could ask them by email to reet me in second life
i want to ask them to help us put together a norms generating meeting using our invitational power to do it on an agenda of their choosing
Colin: i think that’s a longshot – unless they’re sl’ers
one question – is whether we need to do an internal norm setting first
or start in dialogue w/them
concern being that we don’t have our own ducks in a row.
me: norms are positive
we have that duck in a row
uncertainty is killing us
Colin: agreed
me: except the lawyers
Sent at 10:17 AM on Friday
Colin: any objection to picking them off one by one?
me: no objection
Colin: i’ll give it a whirl – agenda of their choosing?
norms around fair use or wider?
Sent at 10:20 AM on Friday
me: tell me this is being recorded
ethan’s observation wonderful
terry martin perfect
Colin: it is
me: yes we are on both sides
yes we are reed elsivier as well as we are harvard mit
citizen professor
citizen student
citizen
that’s what those dots are
knowledge above authority is the knowledge that our challenge is to govern ourselves
knowledge above authority is norm that we live by without a stick beating on us
norm generation is self governance
now we are talking
terry dramatic pause
yes
Colin: this is JP
me: this question terry is on is right on
Colin: I want to channel you for the close to this session
me: hi jp
Colin: what should I say
me: fantastic
let this discussion go
who is speaking
is this harry
Colin: was Harry yup
me: did the harvard interactive media group pass out their magazine
who now
Colin: not sure — student I think
now Nolan Bowie
Sent at 10:30 AM on Friday
me: right on nolan
Colin: colin back now
me: hey colin, i’m loving this
Colin: great – ball is rolling now!
me: who is this
Colin: dunno
this one either – i know him, but don’t remember his name/affil.
me: nolan let’s start by connecting cambridge
colin i’m imagining this going up on my blog out from under chatham rules
like i’m speaking through you to the conference
Colin: no rules today!
me: this guy, who is he, he’s great
Colin: i was thinking about your mail
me: network of networks, harvard mit, …, university
Sent at 10:37 AM on Friday
Colin: of last night – i think you just need to take out the names – or clear it with them…
no chatham today
me: ok

***
hey tree, jp, ethan,
i was on im with colin listening and watching the video stream
i’ve posted the chat to my blog
with thoughts about dots and knowledge and such

you have put the questions out there beautifully
ethan just beautifully coming in behind
his comment an essay to be written
terry and harry lewis and terry martin and others whose names we need to for post edit
solid and wise
and bless nolan for bringing it home

thank you
i’m off to the operating room
hope to be back by the end of the afternoon

each dot is a citizen of cyberspace
gene koo is i hope bringing in for a landing our effort to connect the dots with the dred scott question of citizenship into our start at a new kind of casebook from a new concept of university
connecting us back to 1998 Internet & Society

eon