Friday, April 8, 2005

Vital Cities: an interview with Jane Jacobs

From Whole Earth: Vital Cities: an interview with Jane Jacobs: It [the internet] interests me as one more remarkable self-organized system, but there are lots of other self-organized systems. When the civil mail system began, it was self-organized and was only later taken up by institutions and systematized. It got quite organized by people who would go to taverns where they knew that travelers were and earn a little money by picking up letters to deliver, especially around waterfronts or coaching stations.

e.p.c. posted this at 01:49 GMT on 8-Apr-2005 .

The archivist

From Slate: The Archivist - Brewster Kahle made a copy of the Internet. Now, he wants your files. By Paul Boutin. It's a brief history of the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/) and an even briefer mention of the Ourmedia project, a free archive for all content (video, audio, text, etc), the catch, if any, being that you have to make the content available to anyone for free.

e.p.c. posted this at 02:15 GMT on 8-Apr-2005 .

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Spent five years running the technology side of the circus known as www.ibm.com.

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