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On the Culture of Free Software: Interview with Christopher Kelty by Geert Lovink - It is still rare that anthropologists study modern technology, let alone the politics of free software. The Houston-based scholar Christopher Kelty, who just moved from Rice University to UCLA, has done precisely that.

Nathaniel Stern is an American-born interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media, including interactive art, public art interventions, installation, video art, printmaking and physical theatre.

Nathaniel Stern is an American-born interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media, including interactive art, public art interventions, installation, video art, printmaking and physical theatre.

I realize it is much easier for me to meaningfully empower others. For example , I do not have health insurance anymore , but I am not worried about it. I do not have money income , but I am not worried about it.

———- Forwarded message ———- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson Date: Thu, May 15, 2008 at 1:43 PM Subject: meaning through shared realities I have grown up in a individualist society , and I feel that my heart and mind is not satisfied with competitive and consumerist individualism.

I haven't had many chances to go to the farmers market this summer. I was too busy, and then gone on my trip. Last week I took my mentee and her little sister. This is what I'm missing out on, not having kids. It was so much easier with them there. They pulled my rolling crate.

In his description of why Open Source works Eric Raymond notes that open source communities don’t operate as command hierarchies or even as exchange economies. Instead they often operate as gift economies: Gift cultures are adaptations not to scarcity but to abundance.

The traditional definition of entrepreneurship is expanding to include more creative ways of approaching business, applying business disciplines to social problems and establishing a wider range of success metrics.

The traditional definition of entrepreneurship is expanding to include more creative ways of approaching business, applying business disciplines to social problems and establishing a wider range of success metrics.

DICOM is now a highly successful standard, and I occasionally think about why this is. I was first involved in 1991, and have been involved on and off ever since. It is different from most standards in that participants tend to be highly pragmatic, and willing to compromise for the sake of making things work.