Issuedrinks July 2006

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by Sabine Niederer

hi all, i normally don't post our newsletter on this list, and it's not a new bad habit, but i think the incommunicado documentation (especially the interviews) may be of interest to some of you! ciao, sabine INC Newsletter Summer 2006 The Institute of Network Cultures (INC), set up in June 2004, caters to research, meetings and (online) initiatives in the area of Internet and new media. In this newsletter: 1. MyCreativity: convention of creative industries researchers 2. Urban Screens Berlin and Urban Screens Manchester 3. Publications 4. Netporn talkshows at Impakt Festival 5. Incommunicado documentation 6. INC events calendar summer-autumn 2006 1. MyCreativity: Convention of Creative Industries Researchers Date: 17-18 November, 2006 Venue: Club 11, Post CS Building, Amsterdam MyCreativity is an international convention of creative industries researchers. The programme will kick off with an event produced by the All Media Foundation and the Sandberg Institute, titled ‘Paradise by the Laptop Light. This will take place on Thursday evening November 16 in Paradiso, Amsterdam. The next two days the convention will be held in the PostCS building in Amsterdam. This international conference will be used as a first meeting of an emerging network of researchers and creatives that critically engage with the 'creative industries' field. November 16 at Paradiso, Amsterdam: Paradise by the Laptop Light November 17-18 at PostCS, Amsterdam: MyCreativity Organisation: INC and Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster in collaboration with Sandberg Institute Amsterdam and the All Media Foundation Concept: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter Programme: Geert Lovink, Ned Rossiter, Mieke Gerritzen and Sabine Niederer Producer: Shirley Niemans Design: Hendrik-Jan Grievink More information and registration: http://www.networkcultures.org/mycreativity MyCreativity mailinglist: http://idash.org/mailman/listinfo/my-ci 2. Urban Screens BERLIN The Berlin-based IEB is working on a Berlin issue of Urban Screens, the event initiated in 2005 by the INC in collaboration with Rietveld Academy and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Curator and researcher for the 2005 project was Mirjam Struppek, Interactionfield Berlin. For the Urban Screens Berlin event, the IEB is working with curator Ingken Wagner. The Berlin edition will have a main focus on the commercial potential of urban screens, with presentations of various business models and best practices. http://www.networkcultures.org/urbanscreens/ MANCHESTER Urban Screens 2007 is a joint project of BBC Public Space Broadcasting, Cornerhouse Manchester, MDDA, and the Institute of Network Cultures. Urban Screens 2007 (Manchester, October 2007) will focus on the issues surrounding the production and display of media content for Urban Screens, as well as the adaptive reuse of 'old' content for new media. http://www.networkcultures.org/urbanscreens/ Urban Screens Mailinglist: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/urbanscreens- l_listcultures.org 3. Publications In collaboration with NAi Publishers, the INC will publish a series of books on new media theory and practice. The first book in the series is by Ned Rossiter. Ned Rossiter (2006), Organised Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, Rotterdam: NAi Publishers. The celebration of network cultures as open, decentralized, and horizontal all too easily forgets the political dimensions of labour and life in informational times. Organized Networks sets out to destroy these myths by tracking the antagonisms that lurk within Internet governance debates, the exploitation of labour in the Creative Industries, and the aesthetics of global finance capital. Cutting across the fields of media theory, political philosophy, and cultural critique, Ned Rossiter diagnoses some of the key problematics facing network cultures today. Why have radical social-technical networks so often collapsed after the party? What are the key resources common to critical network cultures? And how might these create conditions for the invention of new platforms of organization and sustainability? These questions are central to the survival of networks in a post-dotcom era. Rossiter unleashes a range of strategic concepts in order to explain and facilitate the current transformation of networks into autonomous political and cultural “networks of networks”. Ned Rossiter is senior lecturer in Media Studies at the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster. Geert Lovink, founding director of the INC worked as a research fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, where he finished his upcoming book titled Zero Comments: Kernels of Critical Internet Culture. Zero Comments will be published by Routledge (New York) in 2007. Geert Lovink (2007). Zero Comments: Kernels of Critical Internet Culture, New York: Routledge. In Zero Comments Geert Lovink upgrades worn-out concepts and inquires the latest Web 2.0 hype around blogs, wikis and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, Lovink develops a ‘general theory of blogging.’ Instead of celebrating ‘citizen journalism’ blogs are analyzed in their ‘nihilist impulse’ to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs bring on decay of the 20st century broadcast media, and are proud of their in-crowd mechanism of linking, tagging and ranking. The book also deals wit the silent globalization of the Net in which no longer the West but countries like India, China and Brazil are becoming the main drivers of new media culture. Zero Comments upgrades concepts such as global Internet time, tactical media, the crisis of new media arts and the problematic relationship between architecture and the Net, and ends with speculative notions on concepts such as organized networks, free cooperation and distributed aesthetics. 4. Netporn talkshows at Impakt Festival August 25, 17.00h, Central Museum, Utrecht Realcore Couch.Club More info: http://www.impakt.nl Realcore is the term journalist, musician and researcher in technology Sergio Messina has given to a new genre in online pornography. Realcore is about the attraction of reality in sexuality. By using new technologies, there has been a revolution in pornography. It’s not about an objective presentation of lust anymore, but about the subjective experience of this lust. August 26, 15.00h, Central Museum Utrecht DIY Porn Couch.Club More info: http://www.impakt.nl Internet and pornography are still two peas in a pot. But in what ways do individuals actively make use of the interactive possibilities in regard to their own pornographic experiences? At the DIY Porn couch.club at the Impakt Festival Sergio Messina and ‘Show-n-Tell’ will present their work and discuss the role of the individual in the world of online pornography. Sergio Messina is a journalist, musician and internet researcher; he is the founder of the term ‘realcore’. He will talk about DIY porn online. People create their own porn in which desire is more important than beauty, and reality is better than artifice. Porn becomes personal. ‘Show-n-Tell’ is the creator of Webaffairs, an artistic review of her experiences in the world of webcam erotica. She started out as a voyeur, but later on became a participant in this digital erotic world. A world in which individual users performed their sexual desires in front of the camera or in chats. 5. Incommunicado.05 Documentation Documentation of the Incommunicado conference (June 15-17, 2005) has recently been completed and includes audio and video files, transcriptions, photos and reports, all available online. A book has been produced at INC, including a CD-ROM with 12 hours of interviews that were conducted during the event. This publication can be ordered free of costs at INC. More information: info(at)networkcultures.org. Incommunicado: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado Incommunicado online archive De Balie (text & video): http://www.debalie.nl/dossierpagina.jspdossierid=38576 Incommunicado Reader (downloadable as a PDF): http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/ index.phponderdeelID=2&paginaID=7 Incommunicado interviews: Overview: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6 Interview with Sally Burch: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=39 Interview with Beatriz Busaniche: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=38 Interview with Enrique Chaparro: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=37 Interview with Steve Cisler: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=35 Interview with Muthoni Dorcas: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=29 Interview with Anriette Esterhuysen: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=36 Interview with Felipe Fonseca: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=34 Interview with Michael Gurstein: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=33 Interview with Ednah Karamagi: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=32 Interview with Thomas Keenan: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=30 Interview with Monica Narula: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=28 Interview with Tracey Naughton: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=27 Interview with Jan Nederveen Pieterse: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=26 Interview with Sylvestre Ouedraogo: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=21 Interview with Richard Rogers: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=25 Interview with Ned Rossiter: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=24 Interview with Shuddhabrata Sengupta: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=20 Interview with Bernardo Sorj: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=19 Interview with Ravi Sundaram: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=18 Interview with Robert Verzola: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=6&itemID=17 Incommunicado credits: http://www.networkcultures.org/incommunicado/index.php? onderdeelID=2&paginaID=3&itemID=40 Incommunicado 05 was organised by the INC, Waag Society and Sarai, and supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hivos and IICD. 6. INC Events Calendar summer/autumn 2006 August 25 & 26: Netporn Couch.club at Impakt (www.impakt.nl) http://www.networkcultures.org/netporn September – June: lectures Nieuwe Media in Nederland (in Dutch) In collaboration with Amsterdam Creativity Exchange (www.acx.nu) http://www.networkcultures.org/lectures October 26: Databodies event at Paradiso and De Balie, Amsterdam (www.paradiso.nl / www.debalie.nl) November 16: Paradise by the Laptop Light at Paradiso, Amsterdam November 17-18: MyCreativity at PostCS, Amsterdam http://www.networkcultures.org/mycreativity Institute of Network Cultures Amsterdam New Media Research Centre www.networkcultures.org info(at)networkcultures.org Mailing list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/networkcultures- l_listcultures.org

15 years, 10 months

ooglive

by Richard Rogers

hi we're going to show the issue ticker (infoid.org) at ooglive, friday evening, 29th of September, amsterdam. http://www.ooglive.com/ http://www.picnic06.org/?id=48 richard

15 years, 11 months

BoF gestopt

by Bjorn Wijers

Voor diegene die het nog niet wisten: Bits of Freedom is gestopt! http://www.webwereld.nl/ref/rss/42107 Wie neemt neemt de vlag over? -- grtz BjornW Bjorn Wijers Waag Society / for old and new media Nieuwmarkt 4 1012 CR Amsterdam / The Netherlands T: +31 20 557 98 98 F: +31 20 557 98 80 http://www.waag.org

15 years, 11 months

.ps geo map

by Koen Martens

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15 years, 11 months

INVITATION: opening at MAMA gallery coming Friday & other news

by Auke Touwslager

Hi issuedrinkers, You are cordially invited to join us at the opening of the exhibition LAMBALL BAKRA - BASCHZ AND FRIENDS at showroom MAMA, Witte de Withstraat 29-31 in Rotterdam on Friday, July 21st, 19.00-23.00. MAMA has invited Baschz - http://www.baschz.com - as a guest curator. Baschz is a multidisciplinairy artist, best known for his work in Betamaxxx with Crackrock and rockrocking the streets. He has set up an exhibition about himself and his creative compadres: Rob Looman, Cosmic Crack and the powerBlast Movement, Auke Touwslager, Michiel Jansen, and his current crew Tictoc. Lamball Bakra is all about plans never carried out, sketches, pipe dreams: all the things you usually have to do without. The title Lamball Bakra refers to the idea that unfinished plans are a matter of laziness. Wrong! Lack of time or money and perfectionism are at least as important thresholds. Reason for Auke Touwslager and Ursula Lavrencic to pick up that never realised plan, give it a name and see where it le(a)ds us to. MOBILE DISCO is an experimental and playful installation which consists out of 5000(!) sensor leds. These leds are sold as mobile phone gadgets and have been slightly altered while keeping to the original idea and function. The result, or better 'proof of concept' will finally premiere coming friday as part of LAMBALL BAKRA. Please bring your mobile phone. MAMA, showroom for media and moving art Witte de Withstraat 29-31 3012 BL Rotterdam The Netherlands --- http://www.showroommama.nl Press release: http://www.baschz.com/lamballbakra/press%20release%20lamball%20bakra.doc Making of: http://www.baschz.com/egoenlarger/content.php?id=555 best, Auke Touwslager Frederik Hendrikstraat 113a 1052 HN Amsterdam, The Netherlands +31 (0) 20 626 0 553 (speech/fax) +31 (0) 6 224 683 55 (mobile) auke_t (skype) ---- http://www.anderemedia.nl (studio) http://www.informationlab.org (lab&blog)

15 years, 11 months

Internet censorship in India

by Koen Martens

Hi all, Here is some news about internet censorship in India. -------- Original Message -------- Send reader-list mailing list submissions to reader-list(a)sarai.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to reader-list-request(a)sarai.net You can reach the person managing the list at reader-list-owner(a)sarai.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of reader-list digest..." Today's Topics: 1. India censors the web again (Kiran Jonnalagadda) 2. India censors the web again (hpp(a)vsnl.com) 3. Bearded Men and Blogs at Risk (Shuddhabrata Sengupta) 4. circumvent the ban (Pankaj kaushal) 5. UNSUBSCRIBE (subodh gupta) 6. Reluctant rulers (Yogi) 7. Re: A letter from mumbaikar (kaiwan mehta) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:37:01 +0530 From: Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace(a)pobox.com> Subject: [Reader-list] India censors the web again To: reader Liste04 <reader-list(a)sarai.net> Message-ID: <EA9CB1EB-F39B-4A97-9B81-059B22482DC6(a)pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; delsp=yes; format=flowed The Department of Telecommunications passed an order to ISPs Friday to block several websites. The list is confidential. ISPs have been slowly coming into compliance. SpectraNet, MTNL, Reliance, and as of this afternoon, Airtel. BSNL and VSNL have not started yet but likely will soon. The known list of blocked domains is *.blogspot.com, *.typepad.com and geocities.com/* Yes folks, the government has decided to censor blogs and refused to explain why. Shivam Vij managed to talk to Dr Gulshan Rai, director of CERT-IN, the only body authorised to issue a blocking directive. His response: "Somebody must have asked for some sites to be blocked. What is your problem?" I'm keeping a running log here: http://jace.seacrow.com/archive/2006/07/17/blogspot-blocked-by-indian- isps If you find several sites suddenly inaccessible today, please call your ISP and demand to know why. Another person is preparing to file an RTI application with DoT. If you can help, please join the coordinating group: http://groups.google.com/group/BloggersCollective -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://www.pobox.com/~jace ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:07:09 +0000 (GMT) From: hpp(a)vsnl.com Subject: [Reader-list] India censors the web again To: jace(a)pobox.com, reader-list(a)sarai.net Message-ID: <e28ad24541a8.41a8e28ad245(a)vsnl.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Dear Friends This is very alarming. A friend in the know told me that this must have been initiated by ministry of communications and instructions given by some bureaucratic, ignorant official, without any interaction with ministry of IT. We should try to communicate with Mr Karnik of NASSCOM for his effort to correct this absurdity. v ramaswamy calcutta cuckooscall.blogspot.com ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:37:48 +0530 From: Shuddhabrata Sengupta <shuddha(a)sarai.net> Subject: [Reader-list] Bearded Men and Blogs at Risk To: sarai list <reader-list(a)sarai.net> Message-ID: <44BC6CA4.3090806(a)sarai.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed POST 7/11, GOVT TARGETS 'EXTREME' WEBSITES, BLOGGERS ON THE BLINK, says the Indian Express. Those on the Commons Law List will have seen this already, (where it was forwarded by Prashant Iyengar) as will those who read Indian Express. Goes to show that the first responses of power in a moment of crisis are also inevitably the clumsiest ones possible. Round up a few history sheeters, detain a man waiting to see a girl he loves deplane just because he had hidden himself in a burqa so that he could stand undetected by her chaperones. Send out eighteen crack investigation teams to look for men with facial hair. A bad time for bearded cross dressers. Were I the foot soldier sometimes identified as a terrorist I would buy gilette mach 3 and after shave in bulk, wear a baseball cap the wrong way round, and cheerfully whistle my way through the next bombing. And write innocous messages on postcards to my handlers, whosoever they may be. While the jackasses (patriotic hackers) of the outfit with the 'cool' title of Computer Emergency Response Team (India), a less than well known cabal in the ministry of telecommunications, cut a swathe through blogs, leaving blocked sites in their wake. So begins a morning in the information superpower. enjoy Shuddha -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- POST 7/11, GOVT TARGETS 'EXTREME' WEBSITES, BLOGGERS ON THE BLINK Source: The Indian Express http://www.indianexpress.com/printerFriendly/8719.html MUMBAI, NEW DELHI, JULY 17: The fast-growing community of online bloggers has borne the brunt of the government's decision to block some 20 websites in a post-Mumbai show of force. Some of the websites that have been blocked are Dalitstan.org, Clickatell.com, Hinduhumanrights.org and Hinduunity.com. But the most harried Internet users were the bloggers, who couldn't access Blogspot.com, Typepad.com or Geocities.com pages. Sources in ISPs in Delhi as well as Mumbai confirmed that the one blog government has asked them to block is Princesskimberly.blogspot.com. It seems the order posed technical problems, resulting in a blanket ban on all blogs. You cannot block a single page on blogspot.com, which is why all of them are getting blocked, said Neha Viswanathan, Regional Editor, South Asia, Globalvoicesonline.org from London. The Indian order was issued on July 13, sources in the Ministry of Telecom confirmed, though the Computer Emergency Response Team (India), part of a global cyber-security network set up three years ago, did not announce the bans officially. Only sources in several ISPs such as Spectranet and Airtel confirmed that they had received the site-blocking order. R Grewal, a spokesperson for Spectranet confirmed: We received a list of over 20 websites to block from the Department of Telecom, and this (Blogspot.com) was one of them. Apparently, all the websites blocked are said to express 'extreme religious views.' MTNL officials said they were handed a 22-page document detailing the sites to block a month ago. 'It came from the National Informatics Centre (NIC). It was the first time that they had done something of this nature,'' says RH Sharma, sub-divisional engineer for MTNL in Delhi. Government sources confirmed late in the evening that some websites have been blocked based on police reports that they were fuelling hatred. They denied that the Mumbai blasts had anything to do with censorship and that security checks on the blocked sites were on since before the terrorist attacks. http://www.nalsartech.org/tikiwiki/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=16897 _______________________________________________ commons-law mailing list commons-law(a)sarai.net https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/commons-law ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:58:40 +0530 From: Pankaj kaushal <penguinhead(a)linux-delhi.org> Subject: [Reader-list] circumvent the ban To: sarai list <reader-list(a)sarai.net> Message-ID: <44BC7F98.7080702(a)linux-delhi.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Hello, A Wiki[1] has been setup by the fellow bloggers, please update and If your ISP has banned the domains which have been in the talk recently, here[2] are the ways to bypass the ban. You might also want to ask the govt. why the domains have been blocked? You can do so using the RTI act, here[3] is how. 1. http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Bloggers_Against_Censorship 2. http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Bypassing_The_Ban 3. http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Blogs_and_RTI_Act P. -- Wir wollen dass ihr uns alles glaubt. ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:39:30 +0530 From: "subodh gupta" <khergupta(a)hotmail.com> Subject: [Reader-list] UNSUBSCRIBE To: ritika(a)sarai.net Cc: reader-list(a)sarai.net Message-ID: <BAY120-F28B92E2D0330D274D17B35AC630(a)phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed THANKS!! >From: <ritika(a)sarai.net> >Reply-To: ritika(a)sarai.net >To: Yogi <machine(a)zerosofzeta.com> >CC: reader-list(a)sarai.net >Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Conflict versus Violence >Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:04:59 +0200 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Received: from mail.sarai.net ([195.169.149.102]) by >bay0-mc11-f14.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.2444); Tue, >20 Jun 2006 08:09:04 -0700 >Received: from localhost (rbl [127.0.0.3])by mail.sarai.net (Postfix) with >ESMTP id A72AF28DF88;Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:05:28 +0200 (CEST) >Received: from mail.sarai.net ([127.0.0.1])by localhost (mail.sarai.net >[127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024)with LMTP id 02059-04-8; Tue, 20 Jun >2006 17:05:28 +0200 (CEST) >Received: from mail.sarai.net (localhost [127.0.0.1])by mail.sarai.net >(Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4F928DAB3;Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:05:21 +0200 (CEST) >Received: by mail.sarai.net (Postfix, from userid 1058)id EF33B28D9F4; Tue, >20 Jun 2006 17:05:02 +0200 (CEST) >Received: from mail.sarai.net (mail [195.169.149.102])by mail.sarai.net >(Postfix) with ESMTP id 0630E28D872;Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:04:58 +0200 (CEST) >X-Message-Info: LsUYwwHHNt1BwKr9m2yCL2wfPTgK0BB/Ve0f2Qw5Nfk= >X-Original-To: reader-list(a)mail.sarai.net >Delivered-To: reader-list(a)mail.sarai.net >References: ><1225.219.65.11.196.1150653087.squirrel(a)webmail.xtdnet.nl><1d804b40606181444i41d04906h73053671bcd38afc(a)mail.gmail.com><1117.219.65.10.24.1150720845.squirrel(a)webmail.xtdnet.nl><1d804b40606200340p1c5db2e2i53253a514216584b(a)mail.gmail.com> >X-Mailer: Hastymail 1.4-CVS >X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on mail.sarai.net >X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-105.6 required=4.5 >tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,NO_REAL_NAME,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=ham >version=3.0.4 >X-Sanitizer: Mail Sanitizer >X-BeenThere: reader-list(a)sarai.net >X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 >Precedence: list >List-Id: "A list on Media and the City,Information Politics and >Contemporary Culture" <reader-list.sarai.net> >List-Unsubscribe: ><https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list>,<mailto:reader-list-request@sarai.net?subject=unsubscribe> >List-Archive: <http://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list> >List-Post: <mailto:reader-list@sarai.net> >List-Help: <mailto:reader-list-request@sarai.net?subject=help> >List-Subscribe: ><https://mail.sarai.net/mailman/listinfo/reader-list>,<mailto:reader-list-request@sarai.net?subject=subscribe> >Errors-To: reader-list-bounces(a)sarai.net >X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at sarai.net >Return-Path: reader-list-bounces(a)sarai.net >X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jun 2006 15:09:06.0060 (UTC) >FILETIME=[791EFCC0:01C6947B] > >Yogi, anant and zainab.. > >if its really about providing solutions - there can be too many - if we >really want to help: call up the people from society for prevention towards >cruelty towards animals..which means keep the phone nos like these handy!! >I try and keep tofees in my purse and give it to boys and girls who come >begging..is it a solution? i don't know. Lot of people say don't give money >to beggars - they'll waste in drinking. So? How come our spending of money >on booze is 'lifestyle/luxury' and their drinking is 'not justified?' yes >one can give a moral argument and say - begging is bad...but i don't even >know how this person came to the city? maybe he was in debt in village, >maybe coca cola sucked up all the water and no water was left in his >village to till the soil, maybe the governemnt policy of reducing subsidy >spoilt to buy seeds, no (urban) doctors wanting to work in the villages... > >irresponsible, insensitive, random > >_________________________________________ >reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. >Critiques & Collaborations >To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request(a)sarai.net with subscribe >in the subject header. >List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:52:39 +0530 From: Yogi <machine(a)zerosofzeta.com> Subject: [Reader-list] Reluctant rulers To: reader-list(a)sarai.net Message-ID: <1d804b40607180022q588a220agcbe2c869e6686a62(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed "They(Hindus) were happy under Muslim rule for centuries. It is the British policy of divide and rule that made Hindus raise their head. Now that the white regime is over, the traditional Hindu-Muslim equation must be returned." Do opinions of Mr Mirza expressed below represent those of most Muslims in India? -Yogi ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:33:50 +0530 From: "kaiwan mehta" <kaiwanmehta(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] A letter from mumbaikar To: "Aaditya Dar" <aadityadar(a)gmail.com> Cc: "reader-list(a)sarai.net" <reader-list(a)sarai.net>, united_students(a)yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <2482459d0607170403w1b68adf7p2c6d4ddc15e54668(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi This is the second time I have received this highly 'spirited' and emotional mail. The other version of this letter conviniently assumes that the terrorist essentially sits in Afghanistan, Pakistan or Iraq. The front page of Indian Express, on 14 July, 2006... has a story on how the Courts in India doubted that the Blasts at the RSS head quarters and another city in Maharashtra were doctored from 'within'. And about the 'spirit of mumbai' the 'spirit' has now reached nauseating levels!! One day all of us will die in the assumed/presumed garb of 'spirit' of the city.... and what will be left is only 'spirit'..... yes read the Times of India, Times Review page in the Sunday 16 July, 2006 edition. Accept the fact... the city was jostled... the city was literally out of steam at least for two days after the blast. Where does our spirit go when tonnes of families and kids are thrown homeless brutally when the slums were demolished in Bombay/Mumbai itself? Where does ourr spirit go when people are thrown homeless, landless and jobless when they are evacuated for Dam constructions? Was my spirit sleeping when farmers are commiting suicides? Maybe I never had a spirit till the media gave me one, a week ago!! warm spirits... Kaiwan On 7/16/06, Aaditya Dar <aadityadar(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > just wanted to share this mail forward i got: > > > > We don't know whether you are Hindu / Muslim / Christian / Indian / > pakistani/ Afghanistani / Iraqi / American or from any part of the > world > but > only name we can give you is terrorist. > > Even if you are not reading this we don't care. Time and again you > tried to > disturb us and disrupt our life - killing innocent civilians by > planting > bombs in trains, buses and cars. You have tried hard to bring death and > destruction, cause panic and fear and create communal disharmony but > everytime you were disgustingly unsuccessful. Do you know how we pass > our > life in Mumbai? How much it takes for us to earn that single rupee? If > you > wanted to give us a shock then we are sorry to say that you failed > miserably in your ulterior motives. Better look elsewere, not here. > > We are not Hindus and Muslims or Gujaratis and Marathis or Punjabis and > Bengaliies. Nor do we distinguish ourselves as owners or workers, govt. > employees or private employees. WE ARE MUMBAIKERS (Bombay-ites, if you > like). We will not allow you to disrupt our life like this. On the last > few > occassions when you struck (including the 7 deadly blasts in a single > day > killing over 250 people and injuring 500+ in 1993), we went to work > next > day in full strength. This time we cleared everything within a few > hours > and were back to normal - the vendors placing their next order, > businessmen > finalizing the next deals and the office workers rushing to catch the > next > train. (Yes the same train you targetted) > > Fathom this: Within 3 hours of the blasts, long queues of blood > donating > volunteers were seen outside various hospital, where most of the > injured > were admitted. By 12 midnight, the hospital had to issue a notification > that blood banks were full and they didn't require any more blood. The > next > day, attendance at schools and office was close to 100%, trains & buses > were packed to the brim, the crowds were back. > The city has simply dusted itself off and moved one - perhaps with > greater > vigour. > > We are Mumbaikers and we live like brothers in times like this. So, do > not > dare to threaten us with your crackers. The spirit of Mumbai is very > strong > and can not be harmed. > > Please forward this to others. U never know, by chance it may come to > hands > of a terrorist & He / She can then read this message which is specially > meant for him / her !!! > > With Love, > From the people of Mumbai (Bombay) > > _________________________________________ > reader-list: an open discussion list on media and the city. > Critiques & Collaborations > To subscribe: send an email to reader-list-request(a)sarai.net with > subscribe in the subject header. > List archive: <https://mail.sarai.net/pipermail/reader-list/> > -- Kaiwan Mehta Architect and Urban Researcher 11/4, Kassinath Bldg. No. 2, Kassinath St., Tardeo, Mumbai 400034 022-2-494 3259 / 91-98205 56436

15 years, 11 months

tussenstand

by Koen Martens

We have processed 629 of the .ps domains now, the top 3 is: US, Netherlands and Palestinian Territory... Gr, Koen geops=> select cname,count(cname) from thetable where distance=0 group by cname order by count desc; cname | count -----------------------+------- United States | 217 Netherlands | 169 Palestinian Territory | 159 Israel | 30 Canada | 28 France | 7 Saudi Arabia | 4 Turkey | 4 Germany | 3 United Kingdom | 2 Italy | 2 Denmark | 2 Malaysia | 1 Sweden | 1 (14 rows) geops=> select count(cname) from thetable where distance=0; count ------- 629 (1 row) geops=> -- K.F.J. Martens, Sonologic, http://www.sonologic.nl/ Networking, hosting, embedded systems, unix, artificial intelligence. Public PGP key: http://www.metro.cx/pubkey-gmc.asc Wondering about the funny attachment your mail program can't read? Visit http://www.openpgp.org/

15 years, 11 months

Issuecrawler trends

by Koen Martens

Hi All, Here's some graphs for your enjoyment, showing the number of crawls queued per day/week/month/year: http://wiki.issuecrawler.net/twiki/bin/view/Issuecrawler/QueuedCrawlGraphs Gr, Koen -- K.F.J. Martens, Sonologic, http://www.sonologic.nl/ Networking, hosting, embedded systems, unix, artificial intelligence. Public PGP key: http://www.metro.cx/pubkey-gmc.asc Wondering about the funny attachment your mail program can't read? Visit http://www.openpgp.org/

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Pre-issuedrinks tomorrow

by Auke Touwslager

Daan Roosegaarde has an opening tomorrow of a new sculpture called Liquid 2.0, an interactive cocoon which reacts to the sounds and motion of its users. This installation is part of my investigation into a kind of adaptive architecture which is able to correspond directly with its visiting public. Liquid 2.0 will be exhibited at the media institute Montevideo in the citycenter of Amsterdam. At the same time the installation '4D-Pixel' will be exhibited in the Melkweg in Amsterdam. Opening 7th of July at 17.00, Keizersgracht 264 in Amsterdam. http://www.daanroosegaarde.nl Anyone joining? best, Auke auke_t (skype) ---- http://www.anderemedia.nl (studio) http://www.informationlab.org (lab&blog)

15 years, 12 months

Fwd: Golden Dot

by Sabine Niederer

even beetje reclame maken voor onze studenten: donderdagavond is er in het ketelhuis (westergasterrein) de golden dot award uitreiking, een prijs voor beste studentenprojecten van hva interactieve media. http://goldendot.nl.eu.org entree is gratis onder vertoon van flyer (kan ik je mailen) anders tot vrijdag, s. femke wrote: Hallo Allemaal, Hij is er weer! Onze jaarlijkse awardshow waarin we jullie de beste IAM projecten van het afgelopen jaar presenteren. Op 6 juli worden jullie vanaf half acht 's avonds verwacht in het prachtige pand van bioscoop het Ketelhuis (www.ketelhuis.nl <http://www.ketelhuis.nl>) op het Westergasfabriek-terrein in Amsterdam waar hostess Inez de honeurs waarneemt, er prachtige prijzen te winnen zijn voor de genomineerden en er gedanst mag worden! Een avond om niet te missen dus. En wie dacht eronder uit te kunnen komen met het "arme student" excuus: de toegang is gratis! Let op! Neem wel de flyer die vanaf volgende week verspreid zal worden mee naar het feest; dit is je toegangsbewijs. Volgende week lanceren we ook de officiële Golden Dot site; meer nieuws volgt dus! 19:30 Deur open 20:00 Aanvang Golden Dot Award presentatie 22:00-01:00 DJ's & Content In Motion VJ's -=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- sabine niederer researcher and producer institute of network cultures sabine(a)networkcultures.org t: +31 (0)20 5951866 f: +31 (0)20 5951840 www.networkcultures.org

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