Last night I attended a free workshop at Free Geek called “How I stopped worrying and learned to love the command line.” Who wouldn’t want to go, with a title like that?
I love FreeGeek. I’ll just say that upfront. Everything about it invokes the New Society that I dream of, but picture only vaguely in my mind’s eye. It’s a community shop that provides ethical computer recycling for those who realize the injustice - not too mention environmental blight - that accompanies computer disposal. But FreeGeek is more than that. It’s a space that forms and nurtures community, where volunteers from all walks of life can come in, tear apart a computer, sort its guts and learn how to rebuild a working machine. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about the need for hardware hackers, about the power and importance of their skills. To be able to build a communication machine from a pile of parts - hell, to even know what those parts are for - is somet...
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Recontructing biotechnologies: Critical social analysesFrom: geeksandglobaljustice.com
Post Date: 2008-03-11 14:56:52
I just read the galley proof of my first book chapter. The book, Reconstructing biotechnologies: Critical social analyses , is due out in April. My chapter is the result of one of my open source experiments, and more proof (to me) that keeping things open, rather than closing them down, is more productive, more socially useful. It began as a term paper for Richard Smith ’s grad course, The Social Construction of Technology. As part of the assignment, Richard made us think about ...
more Open Web VancouverFrom: geeksandglobaljustice.com
Post Date: 2008-03-10 12:18:20
I will be giving a talk at Open Web Vancouver 2008 that works out one of the strands of my thesis dealing with open source as method of knowledge production, with a focus on the academy. This will be fun and a bit nerve wracking, as the audience will be the most hardcore geek (straight up software developers) I’ve ever had. Usually I connect with activists and organizers closer to the “app” level, with the geekiest being IT managers and web designers. Less so the a...
more Moosecamp: Blogging and the UnconferenceFrom: geeksandglobaljustice.com
Post Date: 2008-02-22 12:25:07
Here I am at Northern Voice , the always-sold-out Canadian blogging conference held in beautiful British Columbia. Actually, today is MooseCamp , the unconference portion of the event. Marc Lee, the dude behind Progressive Economics Forum , and I did a session on the political use of blogs. It was in the “big room” and was well attended. Marc’s presentation generated a lot of interest and overall, I think people were geeked about different ways to engage with political is...
more Hello world!From: geeksandglobaljustice.com
Post Date: 2008-02-01 11:29:20
Welcome to the new and improved GGJ site! It’s been a long time coming but I’m finally ready to kick off my thesis project. This blog will serve as a sort of clearing house for data collection and analysis. Personal commentary - the various musings and mutterings of a mildly neurotic fourth year doctoral student - will have their own space here .
Mad props go out to Michael Felczak, who helped me get this blog going. As well as a friend and colleague, Michael has been my faithf...
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