Media, Technology and Society

Back to Blogging 2

Just when you thought it was all over, Back to Blogging 2 reminds you of this blog's come back, unlike yesterday's combover, this blog is back, ready to face the facts, counterattack, smackalack shigalack...

so much for my emcee-ing skills, but the fact of the matter is - there was a time when I had about 20-30 relatively solid sets of lyrics. I should dig them up some time for a good laugh. In any case, the last several weeks have been super busy, mostly spent finishing my honours thesis....

Negating Demographic Determinism...

Proof that being an upper middle class, white, christian, family man and homeowner with traditional values doesn't negate a healthy sense of plurality. Check this fine gentlemans blog out..

Excellent Intellectual Property Blogs and Online Legal Theory Resources...

It was just a matter of time it seems! The blog phenomena is quickly expanding beyond personal use and diary applications into all manner of subjects... Here is a page written by University of San Diego law professor Lawrence B. Solum on many diverse legal topics. I shall visit it frequently.

http://lsolum.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_lsolum_archive.html

A non-blog, but info-packed web site nonetheless, Duke Universities David Boyle at

http://james-boyle.com/

Boyle is an advocate of the creative commons license, a new and more progressive 'copyright' scheme which doesn't require in-advance 'use' permissions.

Also on the legal blog roll is NYU's Siva Vaidyanathan:

http://www.nyu.edu/classes/siva/

What's great about these blogs is that they are not entirely academic. Blogs seem to encourage a non-canonical approach to writing, so there's lots to dig into. Also a great way for prospective students to get to know the interests of professors...

And of course, Stanford's Lawrence Lessig...

http://www.lessig.org/blog/

A pretty impressive bunch of blogs I think, all relatively accessible and easy to read :0

And for other (non-blog) online journal resources, check out the oxford university intellectual property research center...which includes some excellent essays by David Vaver;

http://www.oiprc.ox.ac.uk/EJINDEX.html

Putting the word out...

Here are some sites, blogs really, that are just outstanding...and that I make a point of viewing on a regular basis.

Marcelo Vieta's Technology, Self and Community, is a great resource for anyone interested in the ramifactions of the 'blogosphere' or really anything related to technology, media, and as you might guess, the 'self'. See http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/marcelo/

SFU communications also runs its own media digest, suitably named 'the digest'. It contains the prosaic writings of a many brilliant individuals, including the occasional interview with Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, Andrew Feenberg. Its a great site, well run and administered, check it out at
http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/digest/dec03/index.html

Sadly, I do not have any more sites that have interested me...most blogs these days seem all about personal stuff, and few are focussed on academic topics (well the one's I've found anyways). If anyone finds a cache of good academic sites, on law, media, technology etc...that aren't academic journals, let me know. Somewhere between an academic journal and the random writings of any old keyboard monkey would be desirable. Note: I have just coined the term 'keyboard monkey' and it is now my intellectual property...! Just try to steal it!