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e.thePeople : Making Progress on Democracy: What Does Race Have To Do With It?

Rushkoff: Renaissance Now? - explaining the ingredients of the new renaissance.

The open society at work
Had an experience of the open society at work the other day. The national broadcaster in Denmark was preparing to run a story sunday evening on the security issues with wlan/802.11b. In the old world this would have been going on totally behind the scenes, but this time it was different…
Kasper Mejlgaard noted on his weblog sunday morning that the broadcaster was working on the story and that he was to be interviewed for it.
Not only did i get the information that the story was under way, i got the chance to influence the interview Kasper would do by emailing him (not that he needed it since he’s a clued-in guy), deconstruct and discuss the media angle with friends via instant messaging and try to get hold of people in my network that has access to the editors at the broadcaster. Now i didn’t get hold of the broadcaster internally, but still the story shows the amazing power of personal publishing and the promise of an open society.
It’s open vs. closed, creating reality vs. receiving reality, it’s interactivity vs. broadcast, it’s open processes vs. closed processes and finally personal publishing vs. BigMedia…
PS. The story they ran ended up being fine - basically only highlighting the clueslessness of the municipal of Copenhagen running an open wifi network directly on their internal network with everything open - and not as i feared, an attack on the technology itself.

John Seely Brown: ‘Screen Language’: The New Currency for Learning

Finally it’s here - Douglas Rushkoff - the weblog.

Dagens Industri: IT-profil blev rektor. [in swedish].
Interesting that some of the people with lots of experience in IT gets into other areas, in this case a public school. An good for the education system to get some visionary people with energy and attitude - a good example of the breeding between unconnected diversified parts of society that’s missing today.

Forbes: The Fix-It Kids Take Over
- Tech’s Newest Generation Just Wants to Make Things Work

Kurt Andersen’s Studio 360: Emergence, Eno, Perfect Pitch

Get Up, Stand Up, Stand up for your right [danish]

David Weinberger reports from TED. Looks like Mr. Negroponte is still going strong:
“Nicholas Negroponte wrapped up the sessions by predicting that in 1-2 years, we will see the development of a “viral telecommunications network” based on 802.11 wirelessness, a single installation serving an entire neighborhood. This will go beyond merely enabling multiple connections to the Internet, Negroponte predicts, resulting in a peer-to-peer network that parallels the current Internet topography. Further, he suggests that establishing wireless networks in areas of strife will enable children to reach past their parents’ stupidity.
He connected this with our culture’s odd idea that at the age of 5 children should stop learning by playing and start learning by facing forward and being taught. Give kids a connected computer and they will teach themselves and others by exploring the Internet. Pointing to his experience building schools in rural Cambodia, he said: “People say it’s not sufficient to give kids computers and connectivity. You know what? It is.
Damn good stuff.”