http://cool.org Anthropology begins at home. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:46:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Below is my response to an email thread on a mailing list I've been on since 1995. I didn't include any list discussion by others, as a matter of principle. I think one can make sense of it without that context, but let me know, if I'm wrong. What's sobering to ... http://cool.org/?p=19 Last weekend I spent some time working to restore part of the Cyborganic archive that went down when oz.cyborganic.org died in April 2008. Aimee Cardwell had been asking after the TND Dispatches, so I decided to get an idea of how much grepping and schlepping it would take to get ... http://cool.org/?p=17 I'm hoping some of you will read some of the dissertation. I realize that's asking a lot. It's a huge, academic document. You're busy. It has many parts. You might be interested in some (but which?). So, I prepared a short chapter guide to show where the goodies are and ... http://cool.org/?p=16 Communities of Innovation: Cyborganic and the Birth of Networked Social Media is now available for download (PDF, 5.7 MB). I am especially eager to share my dissertation with the many Cyborganics who participated in the research, sharing their stories and insights. For those who prefer a quick synopsis to ... http://cool.org/?p=10 On April 11, 2008 the power supply on our server failed bringing to an abrupt halt a bandwidth cooperative with a long and noble history, and taking with it (for the time being at least) content far more important than my blog here. After going through three power supplies we figure ... http://cool.org/?p=8