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Avery’s Girl

Published by nesson on May 22, 2005 in family, General and trust. 1 Comment


Welcome to Camp Winona

Just spent fun times at Camp Winona on a Commonwealth School Retreat
Went for fifteen lattes in a little town nearby
talked in a wireless cafe until the lattes were ready
which took a time but that’s another story james milan to tell

then drove back to Camp Winona to deliver the lattes to Fern and her students learning how to do crosswords with her.

Camp Winona is incredibly beautiful place. Rain drops on the roofs of tents and cabins. Sunshine over lake and moutains creates god’s light.

The lattes were very well received and shared by kids in pairs buzzing together in the energy field of our little cabin room.

PLAYING POKER

Avery was the first student I met on this retreat. I was walking through the woods by the lake when I came across him setting up a doll and playing cards on a picnic table for a camera shot. I stopped and offered to hold the cards so that in the close-up shot the doll would appear to be looking at her cards like a poker player. He shot it, then set and took another of the doll with her cards spread out before her, royal flush. Avery, tall, wearing a blue sweatshirt with NEVADA white across his chest, nice smile. Here’s a story inspired by the episode.

I’m leading an activity this morning playing poker.
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Grokster Manifesto

Published by nesson on May 12, 2005 in family, General, harvard, rhetorical space and trust. 1 Comment

We have reached an inflection point in the history of information technology. For the first time Internet allows us to aggregate and distribute a universal public information, education and entertainment domain. Our capacity as individuals to generate and share useful and amusing content is a function of the number of creative people doing it, the affirmation they get from doing it, and the cost of the equipment needed to listen, express, connect, aggregate, integrate, archive, search, and distribute.

We can do that with resources right at hand.

Napster offered model of a searchable digital library open to distributed input and exchange. Grokster a weak cousin in terms of functionality it offers users. The idea that Law should protect one but not the other is ridiculous, based on ephemera beyond the pointer on the screen.

The lesson goes far beyond law of copyright. We are talking LAW writ large. We invite judges to help shed its corporate vestiges of babylon as it applies to open knowledge libraries. Grokster is a troublemaker for the dons of p2p. Our Code is Open, don’t you see. The Open Library of Knowledge will distribute p2p torrents of information seeded in a mirrored ring data bases rooted in time and space as firmly as engineers can plant them.

Our enterprise nonprofit. Wikipedia is a model. It’s structure’s strength lies in the ring of developing connections among its nodes, not in connection of the nodes to a center.

This differs critically from a for profit corporate model.

wikipedia: philology

Published by nesson on April 27, 2005 in berkmania, family, General, harvard, rhetorical space and trust. Closed

The philology research community is on the verge of a breakthrough in productivity facilitated by the availability of powerful research tools that can be applied to electronic versions of texts. There are literally thousands upon thousands of medieval and renaissance texts for which authorship and provenance are not known. Without this information these texts cannot be used by historians in their research. More sophisticated tools for identifying similarities and differences between texts could theoretically be used to determine the author and date of writing of many of these texts. However, there are several obstacles to realizing this goal. First, many of the texts on which philologists would like to work are not available in electronic form or are only available electronically for high license fees and through restrictive interfaces. Second, tools that allow sophisticated types of queries about the texts have yet to be developed. Although a complete electronic corpus of electronic texts with such research tools available for it is a common goal of philologists, the task of producing both the corpus and the tools appears insurmountable to any small group of researchers.

This message from Rnesson, my daughter Rebecca, who signs email
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Rebecca Nesson
Candidate for Ph.D., Computer Science
Harvard Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Morning by the Pool with Peter Jennings

Published by nesson on April 6, 2005 in family, General and rhetorical space. Closed

respect
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Love Letter to Fern

Published by nesson on April 5, 2005 in family and trust. Closed

When I first started this audio blog, Fern asked me to keep private life out of it. But I feel badly that she is left out. I asked her permission to post this love letter to her .

Jamaica Voices

Published by nesson on February 16, 2005 in berkmania, family, General, jamaica, rhetorical space and trust. Closed

Jamaica Voices, to help light up a global explosion of creativity by modelling the process of listening to others enabled to express themselves in cyberspace, and of using the process to do meaningful research and construction on issues fundamental to constitution of the space.

Jamaica Voices will help convey a message to the United States Supreme Court. Give Teammates a node on the net filter through DCS on the way out, no net coming in exept through public media, radio stations like RootsFM. Model for Kevin the call in show, or for Rosimund to put it in other hands and let it go.

INVITEES

Trevor Rhone

Abdel Wright

Kevin Wallen

Rosamund Brown

Commissioner Reese

Rehabilitation Driector Gile Campbell

Camella Rhone

2 documentarians

Desmond Green

John Prescod

Dave Kusek

Schedule covering three days Feb 27-28-Mar 1

Sunday, Feb 27
Morning free for worship services
Afternoon Bus Tour of Cambridge and Boston
Evening orientation to project Jamaica Voices at Nesson home

Monday, Feb 28
Morning training workshops on blogging (text and audio) in a broadband environment and in prison (at Berkman Center)
Afternoon training workshops on use of information processing tools (at Berkman Center)
Evening dinner at Harvard Faculty Club

Tuesday, Mar 1
Morning visit to Berklee School of Music
Afternoon panels of Jamaica Voices (Ames Courtroom)
Evening Readings and Songs from Jamaican Voices (Adams House Pool Theater)

Workshops and panels led by Berkman Faculty and Fellows

Berkman Center pays for travel, accommodations, some meals
Guests are staying at the Friendly Inn

Trust Study in Jamaican Prisons

Published by nesson on February 16, 2005 in berkmania, family, General, jamaica, rhetorical space and trust. Closed

Just posted to John Clippinger and the Wisefolk he assembled to work on Social Physics:

I propose a research project on trust formation. This seems to the close to the core of Clip’s thesis. Would anyone be willing to help organize such a study, focused on inmates in Jamaica’s prisons? Consider a new inmate entering the General Penetentiary in Kingston Jamaica for the first time. Who does he trustat the start? How are bonds of trust established and maintained? I believe we would have full cooperation from inmates and from Jamaica’s Department of Corrections to do such a study, including opportunity for inmates to express the relationship between trust and knowledge/product-formation in digital media.
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