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Eddie Jobson Tribute CD

Posted Sun, 11/26/2006 - 18:29 by PaulBHartzog
Some coolness: The song Observatory from my electronic music CD "Faces" was selected at the last minute to go on the Eddie Jobson Tribute CD which you can purchase here. Profits from the sales will go to the Breast Cancer Fund, in memory of Eddie's sister-in-law.

Music

Posted Sun, 11/26/2006 - 18:04 by PaulBHartzog
Yes, I am a musician. My electronic music CD "Faces" was released by Cydonia Records. You can purchase "Faces" via amazon.com. You can listen to excerpts from the tracks and can also read any reviews there.

Hiatus

Posted Sun, 11/26/2006 - 17:49 by PaulBHartzog

My family have all been ill, including myself, and my 5-year-old and 8-week-old kids have been in and out of hospitals and doctor offices for the last few weeks.

I am back now that all of us are getting better and hopefully will be catching up with blogging and schoolwork in the coming weeks.

Much thanks to all who offered their sympathies and support during the last few weeks.

Witch Hunt

Posted Mon, 11/13/2006 - 17:50 by PaulBHartzog
This from my Rush blog:
Righteous America Well, now that any citizen of the U.S.

Panarchy

Posted Thu, 11/09/2006 - 15:09 by PaulBHartzog
If you have reached here, then you are definitely looking for http://www.panarchy.com !

Openness, Commons, and the Long Tail

Posted Tue, 11/07/2006 - 12:45 by PaulBHartzog
Chris Anderson was here at the University of Michigan recently giving a talk about "Problems with the Long Tail." What really impressed me is that he has moved beyond the "Hey, look at that tail!" rhetoric. He has arrived at an argument about copyright that follows naturally from the logic of the long tail economy. He notes that there are actually two tails (a city of two tails?).

Diversity Promotes Cooperation Among Microbes

Posted Mon, 10/23/2006 - 21:00 by PaulBHartzog

I blogged a couple of good papers about microbial cooperation over at The Cooperation Commons:

Diversity Promotes Cooperation Among Microbes

The Cuneiform Elegies

Posted Fri, 10/20/2006 - 11:50 by PaulBHartzog
I recently read Sven Birkerts' book The Gutenberg Elegies (partially online here), and this post stems from a recent dialogue with friend and colleague Dale Hunscher:
"The figure-ground model, which has always featured a solitary self before a background that i

Panarchy, Peer-to-Peer, and Althusser

Posted Wed, 10/18/2006 - 11:01 by PaulBHartzog
When Althusser distinguished between the public, state-operated mechanisms of social repression and the private, civil-society-operated mechanisms, he noted the following:
"Whereas the [public] (Repressive) State Apparatus constitutes an organized whole whose different parts are centralized beneath a commanding unity,...

Beyond Interface Culture

Posted Mon, 10/09/2006 - 23:13 by PaulBHartzog
The whole premise of panarchy is that technology matters because it changes our culture, both materially and ideationally.