http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/oxford-and-vrm-diabetics-and-phone-subscribers-megaphones-and-cudgels-privacy-as-currency-aggregation-and-open-source/ Stephen Lewis on Infrastructure, Identity, Communication, and Change Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:04:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/oxford-and-vrm-diabetics-and-phone-subscribers-megaphones-and-cudgels-privacy-as-currency-aggregation-and-open-source/#comment-1315 More Balkan Lessons: Health Care Data and the Benefits of Dog-Eared Files and Messy Desks « Hak Pak Sak Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:39:14 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/oxford-and-vrm-diabetics-and-phone-subscribers-megaphones-and-cudgels-privacy-as-currency-aggregation-and-open-source/#comment-1315 [...] reported that Google and Microsoft have entered into the medical information management fray. But, as I wrote following a meeting with Vendor Relations Management activists at the Oxford Internet Ins..., there are numerous opportunities for grass-roots information projects (in this case a proposed [...] [...] reported that Google and Microsoft have entered into the medical information management fray. But, as I wrote following a meeting with Vendor Relations Management activists at the Oxford Internet Ins…, there are numerous opportunities for grass-roots information projects (in this case a proposed [...]

]]> http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/oxford-and-vrm-diabetics-and-phone-subscribers-megaphones-and-cudgels-privacy-as-currency-aggregation-and-open-source/#comment-337 America’s Labor Day, The Right to Be Lazy, the Copy Shops of Istanbul, and the Democratization of Knowledge « Hak Pak Sak Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:17:55 +0000 http://hakpaksak.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/oxford-and-vrm-diabetics-and-phone-subscribers-megaphones-and-cudgels-privacy-as-currency-aggregation-and-open-source/#comment-337 [...] As haphazard as the collections of photocopy shops maybe, they do have their logic. In the case of my own favorite shop, the logic is a function of its spatial location, which serves as filter for its stock. Indeed, what copy shops contain are function of the books that are brought it for copying in the first place. The location of my own favorite shop only tens of meters from the Ottoman archives and a little more than a kilometer from Istanbul University give it an academic and Ottoman period focus that is a function of the intellectual lives, intentionality, and daily trajectories of its copy service and book buying customers through the complexities of their own thoughts and the physical immensity of Istanbul — a case study in the dynamics of traditional cities and an analogue precursor and mirror of internet-related concepts of community and even social networking, including my friend and colleague Doc Searls’s Harvard-based quest for systems of Vendor Relations Management. [...] [...] As haphazard as the collections of photocopy shops maybe, they do have their logic. In the case of my own favorite shop, the logic is a function of its spatial location, which serves as filter for its stock. Indeed, what copy shops contain are function of the books that are brought it for copying in the first place. The location of my own favorite shop only tens of meters from the Ottoman archives and a little more than a kilometer from Istanbul University give it an academic and Ottoman period focus that is a function of the intellectual lives, intentionality, and daily trajectories of its copy service and book buying customers through the complexities of their own thoughts and the physical immensity of Istanbul — a case study in the dynamics of traditional cities and an analogue precursor and mirror of internet-related concepts of community and even social networking, including my friend and colleague Doc Searls’s Harvard-based quest for systems of Vendor Relations Management. [...]

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