wirelessing the world 10-30

CUWin
The CUWiN Foundation develops decentralized, community-owned networks that foster democratic cultures and local content. Through advocacy and through our commitment to open source technology, we support organic networks that grow to meet the needs of their community.

1.Define:
Open source: creative practice of appropriation and free sharing of found and created content
sourceforge.net

Proprietary: (hardware, software, format, lock-in) closed, locked

2. Look at overview of different Community Wireless Networking Options

3. Discussion/Questions over Wirelessing the World

4. Reading QUIZ (passed out in class) post answers on your Blogs ok, you can use your book on this

5. For Next Class Nov. 3 READ p. 207 Reclaiming the Public Airwaves

How Do Big Banks create all the $$$ ?

10/27
MONEY AS DEBT by Paul Grignon

producer's notes:

Money created as interest-bearing bank credit is a magic trick, a fraud - now 3 centuries old; one that very few people have seen through despite, or rather because of, its utter simplicity.

It is my intention to make this mysterious debt-money system comprehensible to everyone. It is also my intention to foster sufficient understanding of the problems with this money system that citizens will be motivated to join the monetary reform movement and/or create local alternatives to the global monetary system - a system in which most of the productive people of the world are collectively chained to an ever-increasing and perpetually unpayable debt.

This is a system designed for elite control of the people by those who have given themselves the privilege of creating money. It is also, I believe, a system that is designed for catastrophe. As the movie explains, there can be no sustainable civilization without a sustainable money system.

By 10/30
Create a blog entry describing this idea of money based on self-perpetuating system of control.
Briefly the notion of "Money as Debt", using examples from the video.
You could use examples of alternative localized barter systems...

and THEN!

Grignon challenges the us to ask 4 questions of ourselves and our governments:

1. Why do governments choose to borrow money from private banks at interest when the government could just create all the interest free money it needs itself?

2. Why create money as debt? Why not create money that circulates permanently and does not have to be perpetually re-borrowed in interest in order to exist?

3. How can a money system based on perpetual accelerating growth be used to build a sustainable economy?

4. What needs be changed to allow the creation of a "sustainable economy"?

Choose and answer one of the four questions, using ideas from the video and your own opinion, in your entry.

In addition to this blog entry make sure you have the essay on p.219 wirelesssing the world read for next time 10/30

How YOU can help the FCC - reading response

The Fight for the Future of Media lays out "5 questions you (the public) can help the FCC Answer. These questions assume, although, that the big business interests and political policy-makers that currently control the airwaves are the ones that should control the airwaves.
Using this chapter as a reference, please answer these revised questions in a blog entry.

1. Do broadcasters use radio and television to quickly and effectively respond to the local communities needs and interests? Give examples to support your answer.

2. Are there certain kinds of local programming (Public Media Values) that should be available, but are not being provided by broadcasters? what could some examples of these be?

3. What could the Federal Communication Commission do to promote localism in broadcasting? Explain three of these examples of public-service-oriented projects that are already in process across the US.

extras:
What Stanford professor and lawyer that we have discussed before is mentioned in this essay? What organization is he the founder of?

What is the "spectrum" that the authors refer to?

for 10-27 read p219 Wirelessing the World

LINKS:
FCC and Smart Radios
LPFM Radio

Struggle for Public Debate 10-20

1. Watch and discuss a section of the Third Presidential Debate (start at 23:23)

2. discussion of Debates and Reading

3. Blog response relating McChesney's critique of the news media and government to the current campaign

For Next time 10-22 Read 21-39 "Fight for the Future of Media"

Trials of the Public Amateur

1. Read and Discuss and Watch "trials of the Public Amateur"

Links to Steve Kurtz and CAE:

critical art ensemble
cae defense fund
strange culture trailer
art in the time of terror

2. Create a Blog Response to your opinions of the treatment of this Amateur Scientist-Artist, in light of the War on Terror, Fear, the Patriot Acts, and the Amateur Vs. the Professional

3. Read pages 9-20 in "The Future of Media" ...struggle for a free press

10-6-08 Solutions

1. discuss solutions

2. view authors@google: Andrew Keen

3. quiz over cult of the amateur on Thur. 10-9

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iReport Apple Heart Attack

iReport effects Apple stock?

1984 version 2.0

1. Blog entries on results of digital surveillance culture

2. Discuss Chapter 7

3. For Monday 10-6 have Chapter 8 "solutions" read