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HighTouch Book Club
Where HighTouch readers discuss the latest books they are reading. blog.k1v1n.com
Delete 5: Potential Responses-- lays out six strategies to deal with the issues from digital abstinence, privacy rights, personal DRM, cognitive adjustment, regulation, and expiry. (not doing this justice). Thorough discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of each. I have an opinion that I'll weigh-in with after the jump.
Delete 4: Of Power and Time-- Consequences of the Demise of Forgetting-- Long and thoughtful chapter. Looks at the influence/control of information, and shifting power imbalances. Then shifts to time and how forgetting used to be the default. Describes how changing the biological defaults using technology are having profound impacts.
I've read this book way too fast. I only have one chapter to go. Long flights don't work so well with keeping my notes somewhat in synch with my reading.
Delete 3: The Demise of Forgetting-- the obligatory digital technology chapter. I knew too much to get a lot from this chapter, but it was necessary. Bottom line, the world is set to remember, and has no incentives to forget.
Delete 2: The Role of Remembering and The Importance of Forgetting-- The science of remembering. Memories have historically been contained in individuals and sharing was constrained. A history of the technologies for remembering: paintings, language, books, photography, video. The cost for capturing memories is no longer an issue-- nearly free.
Delete 1: Failing to Forget-- Tells a couple of stories about how things posted online come back to haunt people. Scary stories (even though I'd already heard them). The panoptican shapes behavior, I act as if I'm being watched. Has profound societal impacts. Alters behavior. Changes the world for the worse.
Professionalization in the academy | Harvard Magazine Nov-Dec 2009 - http://harvardmagazine.com/2009...
"Since it is the system that ratifies the product—ipso facto, no one outside the community of experts is qualified to rate the value of the work produced within it—the most important function of the system is not the production of knowledge. It is the reproduction of the system." Most definitely a future book club read. Thanks to @ethnobot for the find.
- Kevin Gamble
from Bookmarklet
I've finished the first two chapters of the new read, Delete. This is most excellent. I'm going to try to post more often as I read this time. Hope you're reading along. http://press.princeton.edu/titles...
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Are you reading this one John?
- Kevin Gamble
The Public Domain summary: I'm trying to avoid declaring things like, "best book I've read this year" or similar such things. I'm sticking to binary recommendations. Read it! I learned a ton, and think it should be required reading.
The Public Domain Notes and Further Reading: The book has nearly 50 pages of notes. They made for some very interesting reading. I can't remember the last time I read a book's footnotes, etc. Must mean something...
The Public Domain 10: An Environmentalism for Information-- presents hypothetical situation on whether the Web would be created today given the current IP climate. Talks about a cultural agoraphobia around openness. Calls for something akin to the environmental movement. Bottom line, our IP systems is broken. We need to start caring.
The Public Domain 9: An Evidence Free Zone-- Restates the basic premise for why we have IP laws. Makes the case that the burden of proof should be on those wanting to lock-things-up. Shares examples where we have evidence (research) demonstrating that IP is not working, and that the decision-makers are still defaulting toward closed.
Total Engagement - http://www.totalengagement.org/
Putting it on the book club list.
- Kevin Gamble
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The Public Domain 8: A Creative Commons-- Chapter is pretty much about what it says. The gift economy, commons-based peer production, economics, what drives us... From a founder of the Creative Commons, " Creative Commons was conceived of as a second-best solution... because the best solution could not be obtained through public law."
The Public Domain 7: The Enclosure of Science and Technology-- Another chapter with fascinating case studies. The problem of creating an anti-commons from granting patents too close to the basic science. IP laws have stretched better for software than biotechnology. Are we seeing an emerging university IP equivalent of "don't ask, don't tell"?
The Public Domain 6: I Got a Mashup-- book changes direction and begins to discuss IP's impact on culture. Wonderful chapter that charts the roots of a Ray Charles' song "I Got a Woman" both back in time and through to the present day. Illustrates for us how music is constructed. Incredible chapter. Read it 3 times.
The Public Domain 5: The Farmers Tale: An Allegory-- Uses a hypothetical physical property story to illustrate possible options for dealing with the Internet threat. Makes the argument that the government selected the farmer's side to the detriment of society. Rest of the chapter deals with the DMCA and seemingly legal contradictions.
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I've been off riding my bike for a week and then catching up. I've finished The Public Domain. Will get notes up this week. Next read?
looking forward to your notes. I'm still stuck on chapter 2. Couldn't get 'interested' in it like I did Free and Whuffie... I'll go back to it tonight and read more - see if I can't get more 'into it'.
- John Dorner
I loved chapter 2. I'd recommend skipping ahead to chapter 6, however.
- Kevin Gamble
The Public Domain: Note-- I am loving this book. I watched no Torchwood on the flight today. I read.
The Public Domain 4: The Internet Threat-- The Internet makes copying cheaper thus the reaction has been to counter with even more expansive rights, threats, penalties... This greater control threatens fair use and free speech.
The Public Domain 3: The Second Enclosure Movement-- compares what is happening now to the Enclosure Movement of Old England. Makes the distinction that the commons of the mind is nonrival and information products are often made of fragments. Your output is someone else's input. Over protection leads to the "tragedy of the anticommons."
The Public Domain 2: Note-- I'm committing the five points that are Jefferson's Warning to memory (but also copying them to my moleskine just in case my memory fails me.)
The Public Domain 2: Note-- I can't possibly do this chapter justice in a short snippet (not that justice is necessarily my goal here). This chapter was a brilliantly constructed history with an incredible concluding argument. Wonderful reading!
The Public Domain 2: Thomas Jefferson Writes a Letter-- history of IP laws, with a review of the writing of early thinkers. The Jefferson Warning-- five main principles of IP that can be derived from Jefferson's writings. Understanding JW's is crucial to the debate over online content, and the current fear that drives our IP laws.
The Public Domain 1: Why Intellectual Property?-- the basis of IP law: patents, trademarks, copyrights. How we got to where we are today. Describes the problem: we have locked-up most of 20th century culture. Copyright has become an obstacle to creativity and access to information.
The Public Domain: "We have to 'invent' the public domain before we can save it."
The Public Domain Preface: Goals of the book-- 1) Introduce us to intellectual property and why it matters; 2) Persuade us that our IP policies are headed in a very wrong direction; 3) An understanding of the antonym of property-- the "public domain" and "the commons".
Seriously enjoying The Public Domain... First notes to be posted later today.
I lied. First notes tomorrow.
- Kevin Gamble
I lied again. First notes tomorrow.
- Kevin Gamble
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