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In September 2006, a lengthy article written by web journalist Trent Lapinski, “MySpace: The Business of Spam 2.0,” was published by the Silicon Valley gossip blog, Valleywag. The article recounted a detailed corporate history of MySpace, alleging that MySpace was not organically grown from Tom Anderson’s garage, but rather was a product developed by eUniverse aimed at overtaking Friendster, and that had initially gained popularity through an intensive mass internet campaign and not by word of mouth. Amongst other claims was the assertion that Tom Anderson had originally been hired as a copyeditor and his “founder” and “first friend” status was a public relations invention. Lapinski suggested that News Corp. had attempted to suppress the publication of the history by threatening his original publisher. In addition, Tom’s age on the site was lowered to “appeal” to younger users.
http://www.valleywag.com/tech/myspace/myspace-the-business-of-spam-20-exhaustive-edition-199924.php

One of the most popular filtering SW is SmartFilter, owned by Secure Computing in California, a company that’s just been bought by McAffee for $465m. SmartFilter has been used by some of the world’s most authoritarian regimes: Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Sudan, as well as in US and UK. The list of sites that are blocked by SW is so secret that not even the countries that use the technology know what is actually being censored. These lists are the IP of SW companies and are protected by copyright. / Last month, Yahoo, Google and Microsoft signed up to a code of conduct (the Global Network Initiative) that will require them to pay special regard to free expression and privacy as part of their business practice. It has taken 18 months and some very tough negotiation to hammer out the agreement, led by Leslie Harris at the Centre for Democracy and Technology and Dunstan Hope at Business for Social Responsibility. The plan now is to bring others into the fold, including European telecoms.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/nov/17/censorship-internet

From the ancient world of Theory we know why people invent foundational myths: to protect those in power (in this case US-American IT firms and their academic-military science structures that are losing global hegemony). The Zittrain myth says that, compared to centralized, content-controlled systems such as AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy, the ‘generative’ Internet of the late 1980s was an open network. But this was simply not the case, it was closed to the general public. [..] The first decades the Internet was a closed world, only accessible to (Western) academics and the U.S. military. In order to access the Internet one had to be an academic computer scientist or a physicist. Until the early nineties it was not possible for ordinary citizens, artists, business or activists, in the USA or elsewhere, to obtain an email address and make use of the rudimentary UNIX-based applications. Remember, this was the period between, roughly speaking, 1987 and 1993
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/geert/2008/10/12/zittrains-foundational-myth-of-the-open-internet/

* Reduce the US’s carbon emissions 80% by 2050 and play a strong positive role in negotiating a binding global treaty to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol * Withdraw all combat troops from Iraq within 16 mo and keep no permanent bases there * Establish a clear goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons across the globe * Close the Guantanamo Bay d.c. * Double US aid to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015 and accelerate the fight against HIV/AIDS, tbc and Malaria * Open diplomatic talks with countries like Iran and Syria, to pursue peaceful resolution of tensions * De-politicize military intelligence to avoid ever repeating the kind of manipulation that led the US into Iraq * Launch a major diplomatic effort to stop the killings in Darfur * Only negotiate new trade agreements that contain labor and environmental protections * Invest $150 billion over ten years to support renewable energy and get 1 million plug-in electric cars on the road by 2015
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

Naughton shows that, even if you are not interested in media audiences / users / participants (or whatever you want to call them), the changing nature of engagement with media – where more and more people can and do make their own – forces the whole system to adapt. So some changes on the audience/user side of things (people making their own stuff as well as consuming material made by traditional media companies, and other individuals) leads to a change in the whole ‘ecosystem’.
http://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/discussion/blogging.pdf

„Nepotrebujeme už žiadne ďalšie sociálne siete,“ vyhlásil O’Reilly na margo desiatok klonov megaúspešných služieb ako Facebook či MySpace. „Potrebujeme sa znova vrátiť k budovaniu niečoho, čo je naozaj dôležité a čo má zmysel.“ O’Reilly pomenoval aj pár príkladov: Patientslikeme.com napríklad umožňuje kontakt ľuďom trpiacim rovnakou chorobou a 23andMe.com ľuďom s rovnakými génmi, EveryBlock.com zverejňuje hyperlokálne informácie stiahnuté z vládnych databáz. To sú však stále len drobné aplikácie – v skutočnosti by sa mali aj tvorcovia webov snažiť riešiť tie najväčšie problémy, len tak bude svet lepší, zaburácal O’Reilly.
http://pocitace.sme.sk/c/4148432/web-20-vdaka-za-financnu-krizu.html

The resistance was formulated in terms of ‘class warfare’, Wall Street against Main Street: why should we help those responsible (‘Wall Street’) and let ordinary borrowers (on ‘Main Street’) pay the price for it? Is this not a clear case of what economists call ‘moral hazard’?/What left and right share in this case is their contempt for big speculators and corporate managers who profit from risky decisions but are protected from failures by ‘golden parachutes’. / While it is true that we live in a society that demands risky choices, it is one in which the powerful do the choosing, while others do the risking./‘Socialism’ is OK,it seems,when it serves to save capitalism. But what if ‘moral hazard’ is inscribed in the fundamental structure of capitalism? / Hypocritical defence of the rich: if you want people to have money to build, dont give it to them directly, help those who’re lending it to them. / Real dilemma is not ‘state intervention or not?’ but ‘what kind of state intervention?’
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v00/n03/zize01_.html

Today’s Left might accept the hegemony, but continue to fight for reform within its rules. Or, it accepts that the hegemony is here to stay, but should nonetheless be resisted from its ‘interstices’. Or, it accepts the futility of all struggle, since the hegemony is so all-encompassing that nothing can really be done except wait for an outburst of ‘divine violence’. Or, it recognises the temporary futility of the struggle, and defend what remains of the welfare state. Or, it emphasises the fact that the problem is a more fundamental one, that global capitalism is ultimately an effect of the underlying principles of technology or ‘instrumental reason’. Or, it posits that one can undermine global capitalism and state power, not by directly attacking them, but by refocusing the field of struggle on everyday practices. Or,it takes the ‘postmodern’ route. Or,it wagers that one can repeat the classical Marxist gesture of enacting the ‘determinate negation’ of capitalism
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n22/zize01_.html

At the center of current financial problems is the failure to adapt standard financial regulation to new financial institutions, such as broker-investment banks, off-shore based hedge funds and large derivatives markets that remain, for the most part, outside of the traditional authority of regulators. However, when things go wrong, as they did with Bear Stearns last March, their demise threatens to destabilize the entire financial system and handy government bailouts are quickly called in. // The U.S. financial problem is not one of liquidity, (there is plenty of liquidity provided by the Fed when banks and brokers can borrow at will newly printed dollars from the Fed’s discount window) but one of solvency, weak balance sheets, risky assets and debt liquidation. That’s a horse of a different color. // U.S. government should correct an anomaly of the 20th Century, that is the semi-private status of its central bank.
http://www.thenewamericanempire.com/tremblay=1095

It is permitted, indeed, to suspect that the office of Vice President Cheney could have been interested in provoking a dispute with Russia over NATO, in order to shift the political debate in the U.S. away from the economy and more towards the issue of national security and international affairs. // Palin: being a fervent Pentecostal Christian who is anti-abortion (even for rape and incest victims), pro-state-imposed-death penalty, anti-sexual education, anti-same-sex marriage, anti-environment, pro-creationism, pro-censorship, pro-gun ownership, and pro-war. More to the right than that, and one falls over the cliff!
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10098

that FACEBOOK leaves a cookie in your browser which enables other Internet sites to identify your FACEBOOK identity; FACEBOOK is informed about your activities from over 50 big Internet sites that have partnered with Facebook; October 24, 2007, Facebook has agreed to sell a 1.6% stake of the company to Microsoft for $240 million. This means Microsoft, as an exclusive third-party will get access to every FACEBOOK information; If the FACEBOOK headquarter was located in the European Union the FACEBOOK Privacy Terms would definitely be illegal; Zuckerberg (owner) admitted that FACEBOOK receives personal information from other Internet sites without users permission (even after the user has deactivated his FACEBOOK account!)
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5585067263

Communication tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. Jonathan Zittrain points out that the ‘ever-increasing usability [of Web 2.0]has been accompanied by the deliberalising of user rights’. To believe that competitive pressures will lead providers to offer more freedoms is like expecting the commercialisation of news to improve the quality of reporting. ‘Mass amateurisation’ ~ racing car driving is difficult, so we have professionals for whom driving is not a means but an end; driving a normal car is so easy that amateurs can do it while trying to achieve other things. Activist academics who like to think of themselves as progressives yet covet their positions as consultants to conservative business and government ~ Self-censorship at work. The total absence of controversial issues creates the narrow scope typical of books written by consultants.
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/analysis_without_analysis

Ako sú Briti sledovaní: l Bezpečnostné kamery – jedna pripadá na každých 14 ľudí, typického obyvateľa mesta kamery zachytia v priemere 300x/deň. l Rozoznávanie ŠPZ – kamery schopné prečítať ŠPZ boli pôvodne určené na sledovanie teroristov, dnes už kontrolujú aj uhradenie poplatku za vstup do centra Londýna a automaticky udeľujú pokuty za rýchlu jazdu. l RFID čipy – miniatúrne zariadenia vkladané do tovaru môžu umožniť aj jeho sledovanie za bránami obchodu. l Sledovanie polohy mobilu – britská polícia už rutinne používa dáta od operátorov na zistenie, kde sa hľadaný človek nachádza. l Električenky – v Londýne umožnujú sledovať pohyb ľudí po staniciach metra. l Zdravotné záznamy – Británia práve buduje jedinú masívnu databázu, kde sa budú nachádzať údaje o zdravotnom stave všetkých občanov. l Monitorovanie telefonátov zamestnávateľmi – čoraz viac firiem zaznamenáva telefonické hovory zamestnancov.
http://pocitace.sme.sk/clanok.asp?cl=2988928

surveillance and data mining; censoring leftist group (moveon); terminated accounts stay @server; advertisers’ ads @BNP site; private data even to third parties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

public tv? private schools? NGO’s (Amnesty Intl) commercials in tv? noncomm rss-feeds embedded in ad sites? There are not precedents where the meaning of “commercial” has been tried. Yet.
http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0501/msg00006.html

Google, says its chief executive, Eric Schmidt, is “a company that’s founded around the science of measurement,” and it is striving to “systematize everything” it does. Drawing on the terabytes of behavioral data it collects through its search engine and other sites, it carries out thousands of experiments a day, according to the Harvard Business Review, and it uses the results to refine the algorithms that increasingly control how people find information and extract meaning from it. What Taylor did for the work of the hand, Google is doing for the work of the mind.

The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network’s reigning business model as well. The faster we surf across the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

Merijn Oudenampsen spísal článok o amsterdamskej kultúrnej politike Creative City (starosta pred troma rokmi riekol, že ňou podporí kreativitu všetkých obyvateľov mesta), o (nevydarených) paralelách k myšlienkam situacionistu Constanta Nieuwenhuysa o spoločnosti, ktorú automatizácia oslobodila od ťarchy industriálnej práce a nahradila ju nomádskym žitím kreatívnou hrou mimo domén ekonomiky a funkcionality, a o tom ako tiahnutie kultúrnej politiky ku kultúrnemu priemyslu tlačí umelcov do role kultúrnych podnikateľov.
http://www.variant.randomstate.org/31texts/issue31.html#L6

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Santiago Sierra, MX

– paid drug-addicted Brazil prostitutes to have their backs tattooed by a straight horizontal line for a drug of their choice.
– hired 200 immigrants of African, Asian and eastern European origin, all of whom had dark hair, for an ‘action’ in which their hair was bleached.
– hired a group of unemployed men to push concrete blocks from one end of a gallery to the other.
– In an exhibition at P.S.1, New York, Person Remunerated for a Period of 360 Consecutive Hours Sierra hired a person to live behind a brick wall 24 hours a day for 15 days (September 17 – October 1, 2000) without having any further instructions or duties. P.S.1 staff slid food under a narrow opening at the base of the wall. The individual behind the wall was generally invisible to the audience but was allowed to relate to the other side through the small opening in the wall.

– In South Korea, he paid sixty-eight people twice that nation’s minimum wage to block the main entrance to the inauguration of Pusan’s International Contemporary Art Festival.
– On the occasion of the 2003 Venice Biennale he built a wall blocking off the entrance to the Spanish Pavilion. Visitors needed a Spanish passport to gain entry to the building, through the back door. But even then the visitor was confronted with an empty gallery.
– on the occasion of an exhibition by Sierra to mark the opening of a £500,000 extension to the Lisson Gallery, London, he barred the entrance to the gallery with a sheet of corrugated steel. Sierra comments on the considerable frustration of the invited London glitterati who turned up for the opening: ‘It was as though they were saying: “Just get me inside and give me a drink. That’s what I’ve come for”
– During the economic crisis in Argentina (1999–2002) the banks closed and protected their facades with corrugated steel. People demonstrated using a form of protest known as cacerolazo which consisted of banging pots and pans against the corrugated metal. In 2002 Sierra taped these sounds and sent CDs of the recording out to galleries in London, New York, Vienna, Frankfurt and Geneva (Jeffries 2002). The CD sleeve instructed the owner to put speakers in the window and turn the stereo up full volume during certain specified local times.

http://www.installationart.net/Chapter3Interaction/interaction04.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Sierra

Thomas Hirschhorn, CH, 11 ben X
Bataille Monument, 2002, Documenta, Kassel
– He chose as his location the Friedrich-Wöhler Siedlung, a mixed Turkish-German social housing complex in a low socio-economic suburb of Kassel.
– ‘one thing has always been clear for me: I am an artist and not a social worker.’
– he assembled a team of people living in the Friedrich-Wöhler Siedlung who were willing to work on the monument for the eight euros an hour he paid them.
– to oversee the construction Hirschhorn moved into an apartment in the Siedlung
– He even convinced the people working for him to return his belongings when some of them broke into his apartment and stole his laptop, video, hi-fi and camera equipment.
– Like many artists of the 1990s and 2000s Hirschhorn acts as an entrepreneur, which is to say a boss, albeit a more or less enlightened boss

http://www.installationart.net/Chapter3Interaction/interaction03.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hirschhorn

4 scenarios w/ art+culture after crisis:
– consolation – mast na rany, podobne ako hollywood pocas great depression, feel-good filmy a hudba, people find solace in the social nature of arts events; to je ok, ale nezabudajte na minority, new art a innovation
– anger – a la punk v 70s
– business-as-usual, aj ludia v art/kult chcu spat bohate roky
– get real –
— talk to people, art have to find a new source of funds from millions of small donations (like obama)
— prepare for cuts – do more with less
— get much smarter at marketing
— free events/experiences, livestreaming
— don’t let mainstream media cut the arts programming
— use networks, involve people

now: art from periphery to heart of remaking society; because art isnt about leisure but about life

before: high culture (classical art forms) vs popular culture (cooking, watching tv, dancing, playing football)
now 3 interdependent spheres: publicly-funded culture (“what gets funded becomes culture”), commercial culture (gatekept by big companies similarly like pub-funded by state admins), home-made culture

“In this new model the arts are integrated into a wider cultural ecology so they become reconnected to everyday life”.
kulture sa konecne uzna zasadny podiel vo vzdelavani, ekonomike ci zahr.vztahoch.
Leadbeater: people want to enjoy, talk or do = passively sit and watch, socialise, and be creative.
20 yrs ago ‘do’ part was limited to few people. ‘talk’ part bola tiez dost obmedzena – divaci boli pasivni.
marginal [pub] + entertaing [comm] + amateur [home] = potent democratic expression.
Shoshana Zuboff: “there is a new kind of public out there, being made up of ‘new individuals who seek true voice, direct participation, unmediated influence and identity-based community because they are comfortable using their own experience as the basis for making judgements”.

via panel na Forum for Creative Economy v Prahe, marec 09, plus teraz kvoli iview s bishop