Resources
From Counterculture to CybercultureFred Turner on the rise of digital utopianism.
You Are Not A GadgetJaron Lanier on the dangers of digital collectivism.
Free CultureLawrence Lessig on the tension between the concepts of piracy and property in the intellectual property realm.
The Anarchist In The LibrarySiva Vaidhyanathan on twenty-first century information politics.
The Future Of The InternetJonathan Zittrain on the battle for control of digital content.
Everything Is MiscellaneousDavid Weinberger on the power of digital disorder.
Here Comes EverybodyClay Shirky evaluates the effect of the internet on contemporary group dynamics.
Ambient FindabilityPeter Morville on the future of information connectivity.
WikinomicsDon Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams on peer production and open-source technology.
What The Dormouse SaidJohn Markoff catalogues the history of the personal computer industry.
The Elements Of User ExperienceJesse James Garrett on user experience design for the web.
Small Pieces Loosely JoinedDavid Weinberger on the cultural significance of the web.
What Would Google Do?Jeff Jarvis with an experiment in reverse-engineering the web’s first megacorporation.
The Wisdom Of CrowdsJames Surowiecki explores counterintuitive findings from social psychology and economics.
Commentators
- Umair Haque
Director of Havas Media Lab, founder of Bubblegeneration and Harvard Business Review columnist. - Lawrence Lessig
Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. - Evgeny Morozov
Writer focussed on the political effects of the internet, often expressing trenchant criticisms of techno-utopianism. - Jonathan Zittrain
Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. - Kevin Marks
Vice President of web services at BT, ex-Apple, BBC and Google, digital rights campaigner and high insight technologist. - Siva Vaidhyanathan
Professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia, author of The Anarchist In The Library. - David Weinberger
Author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and Everything Is Miscellaneous and fellow at Berkman Center for Internet and Society. - Chris Messina
BarCamp pioneer, social media consultant and advocate for open, non-proprietary and interoperable web protocols. - Steve Rubel
SVP Edelman Digital and writer focussed on marketing communications via emerging technologies and trends. - Clay Shirky
NYU new media lecturer, writer on social and economic effects of web technologies and author of Here Comes Everybody. - Charlie Beckett
Director of POLIS, LSE/LCC journalism think tank, author of SuperMedia and Networked Journalism advocate. - Jeff Jarvis
Professor at City University of New York’s journalism school, Guardian columnist and author of What Would Google Do? - Will Davies
Research Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Oxford University, journalist and editor. - Anil Dash
Influential veteran blogger and first employee of Six Apart, makers of Movable Type, TypePad and Vox. - Dan Gillmor
Director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Salon contributor and author of We The Media. - Seth Godin
Entrepreneur and author of eleven highly successful books on permission, rather than interruption, marketing.
Publications
- Mashable
Web 2.0 and online social media news in real time. - Read Write Web
Web technology trends, social networking and social media news. - This Week In Google
Cloud computing podcast with Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis and Gina Trapani. - Guardian Digital Media
Best UK broadsheet digital media news coverage. - Guardian Internet Technology
Best UK broadsheet web technology news coverage. - New Business Models for News
City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism research project. - Online Journalism Blog
UK comment and analysis of developments in online journalism and news publication. - TechCrunch
New media and technology-focussed news network covering a wide range of topics. - UX Magazine
User eXperience design magazine. - Boxes and Arrows
Information architecture and interaction design journal. - I Love Typography
Fonts, typefaces and all things typographical for print and web. - A List Apart
Journal for people who make websites. - Smashing Magazine
Network of web design magazines. - 24 Ways
Annual advent calendar for web designers.
Articles
- Information Management: A Proposal
Tim Berners-Lee’s original proposal for a distributed hypertext system, CERN 1989. - Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism
Jaron Lanier’s 2006 Edge essay on technoutopianism and authentic authorship. - On Digital Maoism
Responses from various luminaries to Jaron Lanier’s essay. - Metacrap
Cory Doctorow puts the torch to seven straw men of the meta-utopia, back in 2001. - The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Eric Raymond’s evolving discussion of open source software engineering methods. - The Tragedy of the Commons
Garrett Hardin’s seminal 1968 essay, originally piblished in Science. - The Semantic Web
Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila in Scientific American in 2001 with an ambitious vision of the future. - What Is Web 2.0
Tim O’Reilly’s buzzword-coining essay on software design patterns and business models. - The Dawn of the Stupid Network
David S. Isenberg’s 1998 exposition on the importance of content-agnostic protocols. - The Rise of the Stupid Network
More on the transition away from intelligent networks from David Isenberg. - The Cluetrain Manifesto
The end of business as usual, with Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searles and David Weinberger. - A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
John Perry Barlow’s famous response to the US Telecom Reform Act of 1996. - The Long Tail
Chris Anderson’s Wired article that became an influential book of the same name. - The Rise of Crowdsourcing
Jeff Howe’s original Wired article that developed into the book of the same name.
About
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