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It’s interesting to read the contrasting articles by Venkatesh Rao and Kurt Eichenwald. In both articles, they offer differing views on why exactly Microsoft experienced a “lost decade.” That is, both articles tried to explain why Microsoft fell so far behind the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged economics, intersection between culture and products, Microsoft, social and professional imaginaries, socio-technical systems, technological determinism | Comments Off
What do Facebook’s less than stellar IPO and Bankia’s downgrade by S&P have in common? If you’re uncertain, you’re right. Facebook’s IPO was marred by uncertainty. In the days leading up to its public offering, the talk surrounding Facebook was … Continue reading
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Today the worlds of technology and finance collide yet again in the first day of public trading of Facebook stock. Facebook is not the first online social networking site (Remember Myspace? Or for that matter TheSquare?). Nor is it the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged business, Capitalism, digital culture, digital labor, economics, Facebook, industry, IPO, production, social media | Comments Off
It seems that the pot is starting (or have already started) to boil over. The role of academic publishing houses in the dissemination of knowledge has attracted the attention of people outside academia. And, certainly, it has attracted the attention of our … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged capital, Capitalism, copyright, cultural production, digital culture, digital labor, discourse, economics, Elsevier, Foucault, free software movement, industry, knowledge production, open access, open source, publishing, Stephen Colbert, theory, truth | Comments Off
I was poking around Craig Newmark’s craigconnects.org and found an interesting film put out by Kiva.org, an organization that’s crowdsourcing micro-loans. Kiva itself is an good example of distributed micro-philanthropy ( more of these organizations are popping up here and … Continue reading
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