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To: axial who wrote (29934)	5/14/2009 1:57:53 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Great post. I've been mulling similar analogies, and have even posted some of them at times in this space. The battleship is a keeper, of course. Thanks for resurrecting it at this time, as it fits very nicely (don't be surprised if I use it here again) in much of the work I'm now doing. Aside from the message's cosmic relevance, I'm dealing with a direct application of one thing you wrote, here: "From the turn of the century, we saw the march of many other technologies: electrification, the automobile and personal transportation, mass production, and telecommunications - all underwritten by virtually unlimited access to vast quantities of cheap energy." Such is the case in enterprise IT, where for aeons electric power costs have been paid by the facilities management and general services departments of large corporations without any direct bearing on the profit & loss performance results of those other departments being served. This, too, shall end. ------

To: axial who wrote (29934)	5/17/2009 12:34:59 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 46821

Jim, the topics contained in the following notice, courtesy of Jay Sulzberger on the Open Infrastructure Alliance (OIA) list, touches peripherally, at least, on some of the issues we've discussed upstream: -- [OIA] Monday 18 May 2009 David Bollier on How We Build the Net Today Official announcement by Evan Korth - Sponsors "ACM-NYU, Free Culture, ISOC-NY, WinC" <snip> On Monday, May 18th 7:00pm-9:00pm, David Bollier will speak about the themes of his new book, Viral Spiral: How the Commoners Built a Digital Republic of Their Own (New Press). The book is the first comprehensive history of the "free culture" movement and "sharing economy" that is empowering ordinary people, disrupting markets and changing politics and culture. Bollier will talk about the rise of free and open source software, Creative Commons licenses, the new forms of non-market creativity (Wikipedia, blogs, remix music, videos) as well as fascinating innovations in open science, open education and "open business models." David Bollier is a leading American activist, author, blogger and proponent of "free culture" on the Internet and the commons. He is an editor of Onthecommons.org and Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg School for Communication. Bollier is also co-founder of Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C., organization that advocates for the public's stake in the Internet and copyright law, and the author of Silent Theft, Brand Name Bullies, and four other books. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. More about the book can be found at the website viralspiral.cc. More about Bollier can be found at bollier.org. Hosted by Aram Sinnreich and Evan Korth Sponsored by : ACM-NYU, Free Culture, ISOC-NY, WinC Details: Date: Monday, May 18, 2009 Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Courant Institute (Warren Weaver Hall) Room 109 Street: 251 Mercer Street <snip> PS There is an amazing event coming up at our Law School in June called the Open Video Conference. Check out the line-up. Its going to be awesome. Details: Open Video Conference June 19-20, 2009 NYU Law School (Vanderbilt Hall) 40 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 openvideoconference.org ------