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The Social Technologies of the Network Commons (Freifunk 2, draft)

Armin Medosch — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 10:31:42 +0000

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Network Commons

The social technologies of the wireless community network are technologies specifically developed to support social goals, such as community networking. Typically, new technologes are developed by large firms or the state. The achievements of wireless community networks demonstrate that there is an alternative, community based innovations. This chapter presents the genealogy of some of the key technologies needed for wireless community networking and discusses their social content.

Some remarks on digital art, autonomy, and the labour of others (Eleonore, part III)

Armin Medosch — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:16:47 +0000

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This final piece in the Eleonore series sums up some more theoretic and political thoughts about the relationships between digital art, autonomy and the division of labour. It comes to the conclusion that the least digital artists can do is to use free software, strive for egalitarian types of working relationships and to name all their collaborators as co-creators of work, regardless of the usual social valuations of types of work and the institutional pressure they come under if their work joins the art circuit.

/tmp/lab announces the second Hacker Space Festival

drupaladmin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:03:31 +0000

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Hacker Space Festival 2009 | Call For Proposals | HSF2009

In 2008, we organized HSF[1] on the spot, as an ad-hoc meeting for
hackerspaces-related networks, technical and artistic research emerging
from them and social questionning arising from them. This sudden
experiment proved to be a huge success, as much as on the
self-organizing level as on the participants and meetings quality, as
well as the emotionally-charged ambient, the kind of which you make
fond memories.

Outrageous disaster: Ogg/Vorbis spec taken out of HTML-5

Armin Medosch — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:11:30 +0000

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This appeal reached us from jaromil via the Bricolab Mailinglist

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Subject: [Bricolabs] Outrageous disaster: Ogg/Vorbis spec taken out of HTML-5 Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 12:32:34 +0000 (13:32 CET)

re all,

i urge you to take act against the exclusion of Ogg/Vorbis/Theora
audio/video streaming technology from the HTML-5 specification:

I am a Revolutionary: Interview with Jaromil

Armin Medosch — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:40:06 +0000

Interview with Jaromil

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Interview with Jaromil