March 2008
21 posts
another Rushkoff interview... this one hot off the... →
“Innovation makes enemies of all those who prospered under the old regime”
– Machiavelli
“Gene Shay, co-founder and host of the Philadelphia Folk Festival, defined folk...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music
Community songwriting and narrative practice →
“Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist, recently said that he had been leaking...”
– same as below
“The kind of boundaries that used to exist in capitalism are breaking down....”
– From interview with Matt Mason (“The Pirates Dilemma”) called “We Are All Pirates”
“The problem with most collaborative narratives is that someone can just come...”
– Douglas Ruskkoff, answering a question about his open-source novel Exit Strategy.
"Digital Narratives" (blog)
This is a blog for exploring the many ways that digital media are transforming narratives, for example hypertexts, gaming, fanfiction, online archives, mash ups, digital storytelling, performance art on the web, blogging and more. …even further down the right path… now just to find out how to merge this with modern, collaborative, open source folk music (if someone else isn’t...
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Taking Open Source to Every Front
A relatively recent interview with Douglass Rushkoff about “the notion of crowdsourcing, Open Source Religion, and collaborative narratives.” Sounds interesting. What is crowdsourcing? I don’t know, I’ll have to read and find out. Collaborative narratives… another term I seem to have been looking for…
"Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig -- read entire... →
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WatchCharlie Rose interview with Chris Anderson (Wired Magazine) about his new book “The Long Tail” — all about the economics of giving things away for free, the value of reputation, etc. Very interesting. His blog (on this topic) can be found here.
The Future of The Music Industry (Kyra Reed) →
Awesome article featuring Kyra’s thoughts on the future of the music industry. Some cool YouTube videos embedded, turning me on to several other ideas/thinkers.
“All the Fool can do is work to perfect and to purify himself as vessel.” “Make of me an instrument, O Lord.”
Creative Commons :: Comic Explanation of License... →
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Exploring the Universe with Folk Songs
I’ve had Bob Dylan’s recent book “Chronicles, Volume 1” on my bookshelf for years. Just picked it up the other night in the wake of the folk music rebirth I find myself in. This quote is the best: Folk songs were the way I explored the universe, they were pictures and the pictures were worth more than anything I could say. I knew the inner substance of the thing. I could...
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There's more to it, your highness!
From Tim’s entry on songs of praise: The stories of the Bible, near as I can tell, are just about jam-packed with stories of wanderers and weirdos who struck out on their own according to some call from God, or simply The Open Road. Whether they were high or nuts is irrelevant: no group, individual, worldview or neurotype has ownership over what the authentic human experience is all about....