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Links for November 11th, 2009


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  • Evan Williams | evhead: Why Retweet works the way it does
    This week on Twitter, we're rolling a feature we've been working on for a while out to a lot more users. (If you don't have it yet, you will soon.) That feature is our native version of Retweet, which Biz posted about on the Twitter blog a couple months ago.

    I'm making this post because I know the design of this feature will be somewhat controversial. People understandably have expectations of how the retweet function should work. And I want to show some of the thinking that's gone into it. I've been a big proponent of this particular design internally at Twitter, because, while it won't serve every use case, I think it offers something new and powerful.

    (tags: twitter mlf)
  • My First Month With Google Wave: Can’t Even Stand On the Board
    I don’t deny that Google Wave is a powerful tool (for more information on just how powerful it is, see the report “Google Wave Explained” on our subscription research service, GigaOM Pro). Nor do I deny that it has the potential to become even more powerful in the future, when it receives wide release. The fact is, though, that it has much more power under the hood than I need at the moment, and it’s lacking ways to tame and redirect that power productively.

    Google Wave is particularly confusing to users without a fair degree of tech savvy to begin with, and possibly not worth the ramp-up time required to get users new to the app on board. Of course, later on, if Google opens Wave up to developers, custom installs and simplified UIs might ease the transition, but I’m still not sure it can replace other apps tailored to specific tasks.

    (tags: googlewave google mlf)
  • Enough Is Enough – Twitter, Facebook, Google Wave is a Waste of Time – E-Mail Works – Top Twitter and Facebook Users Are Lazy – Suck It
    I must ask, who are these people who have time for all this? How is this making our lives “easier”? It is NOT, it is wasting tons of people’s time. Heck, I read once that an average employee spends over 10% of their day on Facebook. Really? Wow, I would want my money back if I was the boss. But that is not all. Add the amount of time a person Twitters, IMs, and now Google Waves. (Is that what you call it? I’m waving at you. “Look at me, I’m special.” Now please will someone gag me with a spoon?) I bet an average employee does not even work 50% of their day due to these “time saves”. What a joke.
    (tags: twitter googlewave facebook rant mlf)
  • Many computer users hesitate to ride the Wave | StarTribune.com
    Google's innovative tool could face a long road to acceptance among users resistant to change.
    (tags: googlewave google mlf)
  • Internet Evolution – Rob Salkowitz – Google May Not Catch a Wave
    Surely one of the coolest and most talked-about events at last week’s Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco was the demo of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG)’s new collaboration platform, Google Wave, during Wednesday morning’s plenary session.

    But is this ingenious real-time collaboration environment too clever for its own good?

    (tags: googlewave google mlf)


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"Artistic creation is not born ex nihilo from the brains of individuals as a private language; it has always been a social practice. Ideas are not original, they are built upon layers of knowledge accumulated throughout history. Out of these common layers, artists create works that have their unmistakable specificities and innovations. All creative works reassemble ideas, words and images from history and their contemporary context."

"Only after the invention of the creative genius, practices of collaboration, appropriation and transmission were actively forgotten."

"Copyright pits author against author in a war of competition for originality – its effects are not only economic, it also naturalizes a certain process of knowledge production, delegitimates the notion of a common culture, and cripples social relations. Artists are not encouraged to share their thoughts, expressions and works or to contribute to a common pool of creativity. Instead, they jealously guard their “property” from others, who they view as potential competitors, spies and thieves lying in wait to snatch and defile their original ideas. This is a vision of the art world created in capitalism’s own image, whose ultimate aim is to make it possible for corporations to appropriate the alienated products of its intellectual workers."

"The private ownership of ideas over the last two centuries hasn't managed to completely eradicate the memory of a common culture or the recognition that knowledge flourishes when ideas, words, sounds and images are free for everyone to use."

The above from: Copyright, Copyleft & the Creative Anti-Commons

I don't want to exploit anyone's labor. Images and texts were mostly taken from the Internet and are usually linked to where I found them. These images and texts have touched me in one way or another, they've inspired me, made me think, served as a basis for the writing of poetry, etc. If you insist I take one such image or text you consider to be yours and yours only down, contact me, and I might. I'd prefer you to consider my blogging the image or text as a token of recognition, admiration or appreciation though.