@jamespoulos @mgurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA... And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama... We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?" #osint #gonefishing #layingthesmackdown
"And what is the internet? It's a net - a net that can be used to catch some very big game indeed.” – Terence McKenna #osint #gonefishing
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Prior to stepping into the greenworld, I bounced around high tech. Among other efforts, I helped jumpstart the National Information Infostructure Awards, in its day the 'Oscars of the Information Superhighway' - which later morphed briefly into the the Global Information Infostructure Awards, before sinking without trace. By then I had moved on to co-found the National Computer Ethics & Responsibilities Campaign with Dr. Peter Tippett (then of Symantec). The Congressional Briefing on Computer Ethics we co-chaired, was responsible, I believe, for hosting the first ever web connection in the U.S. Congress. Pressing on, I conceived and placed the website for the Save the Earth Artrock Auction; conceived and curated World 3, a metahypermedia exploration of website design which engaged the contributions of many of the world's leading hypertext philosophers: "...World 3 is about many things but, fundamentally, it is a space about how to use space to communicate." and managed The Craft for
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After further pondering the implications of emerging technologies, I penned a technical white paper positing the creation of a server-based, dynamic node interaction protocol for the web, superdoubleplus-precised in the August 1996 issue of WIRED - a simple way to take the fabric of the web, now essentially static, interactive; in a sense, 'turning it on': "...What's the most effective way to strengthen the Web? Strengthen hyperlinking. Create dynamic nodes." Other web-related articles included Barking Up The Wrong Hierachy, an early take on hypermedia design as it relates to the practice of business; State of Cyberspace, January 1st, 1996; and Web Economics, a tighter version of which ran in the now defunct Ziff Davis magazine, Interactive Week. I concluded my singular fascination with cyberspace ontology by curating the Electronic Frontier Foundation's consiousness archive, A Space Without A Goal. ASWAG has been described as a "monumental exploration of the morality, and even th