Archive for June, 2005
Google, open source, and Native pragmatism.
Monday, June 27th, 2005by Risa Dickens
These two sections of the Google site address the company’s governance principles and their software principles respectively.
corporate conduct
software principles
What they propose with these principles, I think, are communications guidelines for prosperous system interaction between individuals, websites, companies, programs and machines.
a natural forgetfulness
Monday, June 27th, 2005Bird Code and the Great Design.
Friday, June 24th, 2005So, big news, the “chickadee” sound and all its variations mean something. The more “dee’s” the more intense the predator, and the little songsters are so effective with their rallying cry they can actually summon other species to come help. Maybe the chickadees will be our translators, our way in to the coded world […]
Review of major Issues in the Field of Information Society Studies
Thursday, June 9th, 2005By Alexandra Yarrow
In his paper on information society studies, Alistair Duff quotes from Eugene Garfield’s 1979 definition of the term information society. An information society, wrote Garfield, is one in which “the rapid and convenient delivery of information is the ordinary state of affairs” (Duff 139). We commonly speak today of information societies, recognising that […]