Red Rock Eater Digest – pointers, March 24, 2004

Phil Agre is associate professor of information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ten years ago, he started an email list called Red Rock Eater Digest Each mailing was a concise listing of links to article, reports, academic writings, and web sites concerned with the social and political aspects of computing and networking. In August of 2003, Phil stopped sending out the list because, as he says in the first new issue of RRE in seven months, “because a bunch of issues all got stale at once.” Now, he writes:

So what matters now? We’ll have to figure that out.
As a first guess, here are some links that are mostly intelligent
academic discussions at the intersection of information technology
and more permanent things.

Among other listings in the newest issue of RRE on topics
of social aspects of computing, technology, and conferences are these:

• Government Policy toward Open Source Software
  Robert W. Hahn (Editor), James Bessen, David S. Evans, Lawrence Lessig, Bradford L. Smith. Books and Monographs. Dec 2002, which includes a chapter
  “Open Source Baselines: Compared to What?” by Lawrence Lessig
• Agre’s sylabus on the semantic web
• The Digital Technology Boomerang:
  New Intellectual Property Rights Threaten Global ÒOpen ScienceÓ
  By
  Paul A. David

RRE home page:
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Related posts:

1. Lessig puts his foot down
2. CPSR’s 2003 Norbert Wiener Award to Mitch Kapor
3. Lessig on WIPO: the extremists in power
4. Lessig’s keynote to Open Source Biz conf.
5. Lessig’s “Code” v.2: Open Access and collaborative