Tomorrow I had originally planned to “attend” Clay Johnson’s webcast The Information Diet: How to Control What You Consume from O’Reilly Media. However, in response to the SOPA protests across the net, Clay Johnson and O’Reilly have cancelled the event and instead are offering an all day, open webcast called Learn to Be a Better Activist During the SOPA Protest. While the event will be focusing on dealing with Congress, I’m sure there will be some useful activist/advocacy tips that can be applied no matter where you live.
Melissa Gira Grant, founder of Glass Houses, has written Take This Book about The People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street and is currently looking for funding to complete the project. Check out the funding page and think about contributing a few dollars to help her reach her goal.
This is one story of the People’s Library at Occupy Wall Street, as told to me by many of the librarians behind it: how the library began, what happened after the November 15 raid on Zuccotti Park, and why they’re rebuilding. It’s a story about books, danger, and freedom.
Take This Book is an extended essay — just over 10,000 words — based on the stories of the librarians and the library’s patrons. (Maybe you were one of them.) It can’t be the whole story, because it’s still happening.
Matthew Battles, author of Library: An Unquiet History, compares the libraries of the Occupy movement to the reading rooms of the Chartists of 19th-century Britain. A timely discussion given today’s removal of the Occupy Wall Street library. For more see the following;
When I have spoken about augmented reality at conferences, I like to discuss the material infrastructure of the Internet and how the physical nature of the so called “virtual” impacts us socially and culturally.
Lower Manhattan’s 60 Hudson Street is one of the world’s most concentrated hubs of Internet connectivity. This short documentary peeks inside, offering a glimpse of the massive material infrastructure that makes the Internet possible.
Featuring interviews with Stephen Graham, Saskia Sassen, Dave Timmes of Telx, Rich Miller of datacenterknowledge.com, Stephen Klenert of Atlantic Metro Communications, and Josh Wallace of the City of Palo Alto Utilities.
To follow on from yesterday’s post, here is a short documentary from Elmine Wijni on a fab lab in the Netherlands. More information about fab labs can be found at the website of the original fab lab program in MIT. Enjoy!
