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Intellectual Craftsmanship - John Barker about C.W.Mills and methodology

Submitted by John Barker on Thu, 04/17/2008 - 09:29
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John Barker is both a novelist and an author of non-fiction essays about political, social and cultural issues. Barker's essays, published in magazines such as Variant or Mute Magazine, bristle with historic depth and accuracy of information, woven into critical narrations written in a dense prose. This evident richness of background research is maybe a result of Barker being inspired by the research methodology of a great of the 20th century, C.W.Mills. In this guest contribution, written specifically for thenextlayer.org and the taxi-to-praxi workshop, John Barker introduces us to Mills' concept of intellectual craftsmanship.

Subversion/Drupal distributed multisite project

Submitted by lisa on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 14:09
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(please excuse the note form of this article)

Background
I am involved in a number of drupal projects, both new and legacy, some as paid projects, some volunteer.
I am involved or want to help with the maintainence of the code base (security patching, upgrades etc). However not all of the projects are on my own server. And as I am not a hosting company that is how things should be.
However, patching and upgrading is a pain, especially over many sites. How could this be managed efficiently and cooperatively?

The Solution in general

Subversion, a useful FOSS tool

Submitted by lisa on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 14:03
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I have had to use subversion recently for a job, which is great as i've been meaning to start using it for ages! Here is an intro to subversion, and following a suggestion of how it could help next layer and related projects in a very practical way.

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Subversion is a "versioning system" that is used most often by coders and documentors to store text files, but can actually be used for any kind of data.

Babylon by Bus - Jaromil, the lyrical programmer activist

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 17:57
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Denis 'Jaromil' Roio is the main author of the GNU/Linux Live CD Dyne:bolic as well as of a number of audiovisual tools. He is also an artist who has been part of international exhibitions such as CODeDOC II by the Whitney Museum Artport and speaker on conferences such as Ars Electronica. Inspired by Richard Stallman's "free as in free speech" approach as well as liberatory politics, Jaromil seeks to transgress borders between art and code, social activism and research and development. This text is an introduction and overview about Jaromil's life and ideas, based on an interview conducted in June 2006 in Amsterdam. At the taxi-to-praxi research workshop on 21st of April he talked about Solid Knowledge.

The Culture of Open Sources

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 17:46
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The Culture of Open Sources is a study of the creative methodologies of Free and Open Source Software developers who either write code for creative applications or support artistic and social goals as sysadmins. This research is based on qualitative research with about 20 developers so far with whom long biographic and interviews have been conducted.

0.1. Introduction

Submitted by jonasandersson on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 15:15
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0.1. Introduction

by Jonas Andersson and Adnan Hadzi

Deptford.TV diaries II - Pirate Strategies

Submitted by jonasandersson on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 15:10
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Deptford.TV diaries II: Pirate Strategies

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Deptford.TV is an audio-visual documentation of the urban change of Deptford (south-east London) in collaboration with SPC.org media lab, Bitnik.org, Boundless.coop, Liquid Culture and Goldsmiths College.

Readers

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 14:53
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Selection of texts that appeared in Readers

Deptford.TV Diaries II - Pirate Strategies

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 14:00
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Deptford.TV diaries II: Pirate Strategies

Deptford.TV is an audio-visual documentation of the urban change of
Deptford (south-east London) in collaboration with SPC.org media lab,
Bitnik.org, Boundless.coop, Liquid Culture and Goldsmiths College.

The unedited as well as edited media content is being made available on
the Deptford.TV database and distributed over the Boundless.coop
wireless network. The media is licensed through open content licenses
such as Creative Commons and the GNU general public license.

This reader problematises the notion of 'tactical media'. As McKenzie

Copenhagen Free University: WE HAVE WON!

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Sun, 04/13/2008 - 08:52
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The Copenhagen Free University (CFU), together with other "self-institutions" such as the Universite Tangente http://utangente.free.fr/ in Paris and the University of Openness, London, successfully promoted the notion of the need to create ones own institutions and hijack the meaning of the established institutions. The free university exists outside the hierarchical and commercialised model into which Europe's universities have been turned. The CFU promoted a more egalitarian system where everybody could use the tag 'university' to their own ends. The CFU ceased its activities by the end of 2007 and in connection with the abolition of the institution its founders, Henriette Heise & Jakob Jakobsen have written the following statement:

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