Author of machiavelli.net, proud father of three, interested in shaping network society. Welcome to my blog.Category Archives for Blog
Pitching Whatever, Wherever
These days it seems that everybody is pitching something. A new graduate school, an interdisciplinary research project, a book project that was started last year, new forms of governance, an executive program, etc. So it makes sense, to revisit the … Continue reading
Facebooking Davos
In the long history of web 2.0, A-Small-World (ASW) has been the most “bcbg” social network. But no longer. Klaus Schwab’s executive assistant Fiona Paua has been emailing power brokers and academics to set up global agenda councils on their … Continue reading
Transforming Academia in Germany
it is the end of the world as we know it (REM 1987, Wallerstein 1999). As we are running around like headless chicken, it might make sense to step back, take a comparative approach, and reflect on changing times (Chinese … Continue reading
Last Lessig Talk on Free Culture
Larry Lessig, the Stanford Law Professor is giving his last talk on the topic (he is moving on to corruption) on January 31st. If you cannot afford to go, watch his November 2007 TED presentation. If you do have time… … Continue reading
A Political Theory of Forking
Forking is the nuclear bomb of open source development projects and the ultimate test of openness. Wikipedia defines it as, In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and … Continue reading
Assessing the intellectual capital of filesharing
Do Check out the interview with Rick Falkvinge, the head of the pirate bay party in Sweden.
Semantic Wars and the Political Economy of Creativity
The battle for the institutional ecology of the digital environment is a semantic war. Some questions are: a. what is creativity?b. in how far is creative output analog to property?c. what type of legal framework should govern the (re)usage of … Continue reading
linux on the notebook
theoretically, linux works great and ubuntu is wonderful. After needing a new hard-drive and being super annoyed with XP, I gave it a try. It installed beautifully, everything worked right “out of the box.” However, after 6 weeks, I am … Continue reading
Revisiting Municipal Wireless in the City Upon a Hill
The reasons why the concept of municipal wireless is under attack today are manifold. However, under the radar there are interesting success stories (think for example Bristol). But until the fog lifts, do read the new study of the New … Continue reading
Vendor Driven Theorizing
[VENDOR-DRIVEN Theory]: a vendor’s conception or mental scheme of something to be done, or of the method of doing it; As we are moving into network society, we need to be aware of the phenomenon of vendor-driven theorizing and able … Continue reading
