Granada on the GMaps
Posted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information CommonsSpain and Granada are now on Google Maps. Here’s the University and the area near my hotel.
Also I’ve added more pictures from today.
Archive for April, 2006
Apr
27
2006
Granada on the GMapsPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, Information CommonsSpain and Granada are now on Google Maps. Here’s the University and the area near my hotel. I’ve spent the day with meetings of the Louis Round Wilson Knowledge Trust meetings — so far. I’m now on a debate/talk with Nicole Wong of Google about economic and market effects of openness. I’ll be drawing on James Boyle’s Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and the Construction of the Information Society and on Yochai Benkler’s Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom and on Koleman Strumpf’s work on the market effect of file-sharing (that is none). As a result of wandering, I ended up having a nice talk with Lynne Brindley and her husband Tim as we sat out under the shade by the river looking up at the Alhambra. Luckily I had Yochai Benkler’s Wealth of Networks handy so’s I could refer to the chart on page 340 on patent revenues. We talked about more than that but that was a part of the talk. That and the Saint and James Bond amongst other things. Also met up with Hafez Modirzadeh, who is here for the year on a Fullbright. Hafez is a musician and a scholar of music. We’ll catch up over coffee on Sunday. Shower before dinner with the Louis Round Wilson Knowledge Trust folks. My trip over was mostly uneventful and mostly on schedule. That’s more that is true for most folks coming here from UNC and for our friend Paula who was on her way to Northern Cyprus. I met Paula in RDU after she had been bumped unwillingly from her connecting flight out. We ended up flying to Gatwick together and had a fine time if a fine time can be defined as passing out on an overnight transAtlantic flight. Just ran by the Bull S. Head Bookshop and ran into Frank Warren who invented PostSecret back in 2004 0r so. Frank is signing the PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives book and giving a talk today. I’ll be on the airplane to Granada via London, but I’ll be reading/looking at the book on the way over. Who says anonimity isn’t important? Whoever says that send them to PostSecret and to the book — or is it blook?
Apr
24
2006
Pew: How the Internet Matters in Our LivesPosted by Paul in General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesWhine if you will WSJ and others, but the rest of us depend on the Internet to help us through life in positive ways. Recent (4/19) Pew Internet and American Life surveys “show that 45% of internet users, or about 60 million Americans, say that the internet helped them make big decisions or negotiate their way through major episodes in their lives in the previous two years.” In terms of growth of importance, the Pew surveys show these changes in the past three years (2002 vs 2005):
The Pew report “Major Moments” is here [in PDF]. Dan Gillmor uses the reports to take on WSJ’s Dan Henninger on his Center for Citizen Media Blog. We’ll be uptown in front of Aladdin’s Restaurant on Franklin today for the Apple Chill Street Fair. Tucker’s Odyssey of the Mind team will be selling drinks and raffle tickets (You could win an iPod Nano) there to raise funds to help pay for their trip to the Odyssey of the Mind World Competition in Ames Iowa at the end of May. I’ve always had mixed feelings about Apple Chill. In part because I’m both attracted and repelled by large crowds. And Apple Chill is large — not as large as Halloween, but large. Every year folks who avoid crowds and the Chill tell me how it used to be so much better, but thinking about it myself, I don’t think so. The Chill has certain appeal for people of different ages. The meeting and hanging out factor. The entertaining the kids factor. The excuse to eat bad for you fair food factor. The love and hate of live music factor — I love the energy, but the mix and tuning is never worth a poop especially at the street fair level of presentation. I have all the pottery I need — or do I? Let me just take a look. The weather is beautiful and we’ll be out there in a few hours. If this is to be believed there is a new library proposed for Guadalajara, Mexico to made from used fuselages:
[more with images at the link above] From Memepunks via BoingBoing
Apr
21
2006
Peter Kramer wins Kathryn Wallace Award for Artists in Community ServicePosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, GeneralWhen I get things settled down at ibiblio and I sneak off to write, I go to Peter Kramer and Susan Gladen’s farm and sit in the middle of their chicken yard. Peter, who cannot stop building small outbuildings, lets writers set up shop there. Now Peter is recognized for his promotion of music with the Kathryn Wallace Award for Artists in Community Service from the Triangle Community Foundation. I’ll let him explain, in his own modest way, further:
Apr
21
2006
Slate Eds on Arts Online – April 26Posted by Paul in General, Information Commons, Virtual Communities, literatureThe J-School sends this alert (I’ll be in Granada — Have I said that enough? — but it should be very good): What: How the Internet is Shaping Culture: What’s different about the arts in the online age?
Apr
21
2006
Winer on Stepno on Rocketboom on WinerPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, General, Information Commons, News of NewsNot only is Yochai Benkler’s Wealth of Networks available for sell (but not delivery as yet from Amazon) and for download, but a talk/lecture by Yochai (in ogg) is available for listening (about 50 minutes) (Thanks Wikimedia).
Apr
20
2006
Jones to Granada, SpainPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, Amusements, General, Information CommonsOff to Granada on Monday/Tuesday for the Louis Round Wilson Knowledge Trust meetings. Jonathan Riehl sends these tips (Please add yours to the comments):
Apr
19
2006
If DNA testing is so simple…Posted by Paul in General, News of News, Virtual CommunitiesIf DNA testing is so simple that a whole lacrosse team can be tested and the results back within two weeks, then why can’t a deathrow inmate be tested? This is the question being asked and chronicled as the businesss of an entire blog dedicated to the case of Jerry Conner with the title ” North Carolina Obstructs DNA Testing for Condemned Man! : Take action now to stop a wrongful execution! Tell the State to stop opposing DNA testing that promises to reveal the truth about the crimes for which Jerry Conner was convicted and sentenced to die”
Apr
18
2006
The Laurel Hell – A novel in weekly installmentsPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, literatureWarren Wilson alum Hillary Nelson has started publishing “The Laurel Hell” on her blog at the rate of one chapter per week. Do we have a blook and a Blooker cooking here?
Apr
18
2006
Beyond Broadcast at Harvard – May 12 and 13Posted by Paul in General, Information Commons, Virtual CommunitiesRegistration is open for Beyond Broadcast up at Harvard’s Berkman Center. I’ll be on a panel there on ” What the emerging participatory web media services are doing” with Lynne D. Johnson (videoblogger) and Bill Gannon (Yahoo!). Moderator: Peter Armstrong (OneWorld.net). Come on up! And/or let me know your ideas and experiences and I’ll add them to my talk.
Apr
17
2006
The Ancient Way wins Horizon Interactive AwardPosted by Paul in Alumni and other friends, General, News of News, Virtual CommunitiesThe UNC Journalism and Mass Communication School produced The Ancient Way (hosted by ibiblio.org) was named top in their category for the Horizon Interactive Awards. Gabriel Dance, who worked with ibiblio.org, was in Galacia working on the project last summer and contributed to the project as did my collegues Rich Beckman, Pat Davidson, Alberto Cairo and Laura Ruel. The judges said:
We seem to be covering Spain pretty well. Galacia is in the Northwest of Iberia. I’ll be in the South next week in Granada. Just finished reading Washington Irving’s Alhambra and just received Ornament of the World from the conference organizers and have begun the Conquest of Granada also by Irving. |