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In this age of digital, a critical design point is the architecture of systems (socio-economic, technological, political). If everything can become digital (can be represented as a number) then the relation of that thing to other things becomes very abstract. We begin to think in terms of classes and instances, and how they could interact with other classes. And we risk losing track of the fact that we're thinking abstractly about things that affect real people in this real world. This blog is about the architecture of systems. And how architecture affects the real world.
        

Saturday, November 1, 2003

A BUZZFLASH interview with Bill Moyers on today's news media.
6:17:44 PM    

THE FUTURE OF NEWS
Preparing for the Coming Era of Participatory News
The Internet means now everyone is a journalist - or can be.
Dale Peskin, Online Journalism Review, posted: 2002-03-26

Forty years ago Marshall McLuhan observed that we look at the future through a rear-view mirror. He foresaw a time when our small planet would become a connected, ever-changing global village that would immediately and inextricably be altered by the way it is observed and reported.

McLuhan warned that few would notice. We would be changing and moving too fast, he predicted. Our vision for the future would be left to a backward glance through a small window of a moving vehicle....

3:23:20 PM    

MediaCon: Cooper's new book. Mark Cooper, of the Consumer Federation of America has published a new book, Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age. The book can be purchased at Amazon (link to come), or it can be downloaded for free under a Creative Commons license. [Lessig Blog]
2:27:59 PM    

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