"It may well turn out that one of the most important effects of open source’s success will be to teach us that play is the most economically efficient mode of creative work." (Eric S. Raymond, postscript (2000) to The Cathedral and the Bazaar)
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"Neurath's pictograms owe much to the Modernist belief that reality may be modified by being codified – standardised, easy-to-grasp templates as a revolution in human affairs. But the templates themselves, or the code, may end up in their turn aestheticised, reified, in need of a further round of de-cryption, a paradigm …
The Institute of Network
Cultures published an
insightful study on the culture of new media work by Sociologist
Rosalind
Gill.
Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a
decade after the web, is based on 40 'semi-structured' interviews
with practitioners (designers, developers, artists, information
architects, ...). Her study …
Craig Bradney and Peter Linnell discuss the future of Free and Open Source Software for commercial printing:
Right now, I would say the biggest weakness from an FOSS point of view is there are few good high quality fonts. It is one of those areas which requires tremendous amounts of …
Ellen Lupton's question: Why would a typeface designer want to give a font away? sparked off a series of comments worth reading. The discussion shows how much typographers struggle with 'open source' as an idea. It makes you wonder why Lupton decided to ask 'to give away a font' and …
Stroom Den
Haag
started their year long project After Neurath with a public symposium.
After Neurath looked/looks at the relevance of 1930's philosopher and
information activist Otto Neurath, and as you can imagine various
familiar issues came up.
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Les nouveaux habits de la copie, Nicolas Malevé
Text available on line:
http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/nouveaux_habits.pdf
PDF lay-out:
habits_quarantainec.pdf
PDF cover:
cover_robot.pdf
License: Copyleft, License Art Libre
Date of publishing: 07-07-2006 (Quarantaine)
Maternal Politics, Irina Aristarkhova
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maternal_politicsb.pdf
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Date of publishing: 03-06-2006 (Digitales)
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