thanks Dante,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dante-Gabryell Monson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dante.monson@gmail.com">dante.monson@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 5:56 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: <nettime> "Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down<br>To: Michel Bauwens <<a href="mailto:michelsub2004@gmail.com">michelsub2004@gmail.com</a>><br><br>
<br> excerpt from message below :<br><br>"be taken offline in<br>
coming weeks due to budget �cuts by Congress.<br>Perhaps things like<br>
electronic government, software platforms and �public accountability were<br>
just fads, anyway."<br>
<br>
"Update:. We're hearing from several places that there's a potentially<br>
viable effort to �save these sites and organizations. Here<br>
(<a href="http://bit.ly/i16ldO" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/i16ldO</a>) is one perspective on that and you can also see the<br>
Sunlight Foundation's Save the Data<br>
(<a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/" target="_blank">http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/</a>) petition. �Data.gov & 7 Other<br>
Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut<br>
<a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/datagov_7_other_sites_." target="_blank">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/datagov_7_other_sites_.</a>.. " <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Rob van Kranenburg</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kranenbu@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">kranenbu@xs4all.nl</a>></span><br>Date: Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:20 PM<br>Subject: <nettime> "Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down<br>
To: <a href="mailto:nettime-l@kein.org" target="_blank">nettime-l@kein.org</a><br><br><br>Hi all,<br>
<br>
I can't resist a good quote from Oh Brave New World:<br>
<br>
'Art, Science- You seem to have paid a fairly high price for your<br>
happiness', said the Savage, when they were alone. 'Anything else?'<br>
'Well, religion, of course,' replied the Controller. 'There used to be<br>
something called God -... Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)<br>
<br>
We believe that influence is the ability to drive people to action --<br>
"action" might be defined as a reply, a retweet, a comment, or a click. -<br>
<a href="http://klout.com/" target="_blank">http://klout.com/</a><br>
<br>
Announcer enters the stage: breaking news from the house of Power: �I am a<br>
Rock, I am an Island<br>
<br>
Bystander: Can you define power?<br>
<br>
Street cleaner: The claim of states to rightfully assign arbitrary numbers<br>
to people, animals and plants and lampposts wedded to the claim of<br>
corporations to arbitrarily assign copyright and intellectual property<br>
over simple blocks of data that were simple noise, freely booming loud to<br>
all. Power is to hold the decision to decide what is data and what is<br>
noise.<br>
All power is temporary.<br>
<br>
Announcer enters the stage: Well, this is the breaking news:<br>
<br>
"Data.gov & 7 Other Sites to Shut Down<br>
After Budgets Cut<br>
By Marshall Kirkpatrick / March 31, 2011 2:45 PM / 30 Comments<br>
Two years ago the incoming Obama administration launched a �number of<br>
ambitious websites (<a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives" target="_blank">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives</a><br>
/datagov_finally_launches_looks_nice_but_short_on_d.php) , most �notably<br>
Data.gov (<a href="http://data.gov" target="_blank">http://data.gov</a>) , that were dedicated to offering public and<br>
government data to the outside world. The stated intention was to foster<br>
transparency �and offer a platform for the development of new software and<br>
services. It appears �those experiments may be over for now. �Today the<br>
Sunlight Foundation (<a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/03/31/budget-" target="_blank">http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/03/31/budget-</a><br>
�technopocalypse-deepens-transparency-sites-will-go-dark-in-a-few-months/)<br>
and Federal �News Radio<br>
(<a href="http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798" target="_blank">http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=35&sid=2327798</a>) reported that the<br>
public projects Data.gov, USASpending.gov, Apps.gov/now, IT Dashboard and<br>
<a href="http://paymentaccuracy.gov" target="_blank">paymentaccuracy.gov</a> as well as a number of internal government sites<br>
including �Performance.gov, FedSpace and many of the efforts related the<br>
FEDRamp cloud �computing cybersecurity effort would be taken offline in<br>
coming weeks due to budget �cuts by Congress. Perhaps things like<br>
electronic government, software platforms and �public accountability were<br>
just fads, anyway.<br>
<br>
Update:. We're hearing from several places that there's a potentially<br>
viable effort to �save these sites and organizations. Here<br>
(<a href="http://bit.ly/i16ldO" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/i16ldO</a>) is one perspective on that and you can also see the<br>
Sunlight Foundation's Save the Data<br>
(<a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/" target="_blank">http://sunlightfoundation.com/savethedata/</a>) petition. �Data.gov & 7 Other<br>
Sites to Shut Down After Budgets Cut<br>
<a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/datagov_7_other_sites_." target="_blank">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/datagov_7_other_sites_.</a>.. "<br>
<br>
Chorus: So what are we looking at here?<br>
<br>
"What we are looking at here is the decline of imperial powers which had<br>
once stretched around the globe. In these circumstances, the inquisitorial<br>
bureaucracy which we have observed, bedevilled by minutiae which by any<br>
objective standards are meaningless, seems incomprehensible. Yet the<br>
emphasis on the steady accumulation of pieces of paper betrays a mentality<br>
unable to deal with the reality before it: the reality was of an empire<br>
and society in precipitous decline: unable to face it, the inquisitorial<br>
mentality took refuge in useless documents designed the honour and<br>
nobility of the nation.<br>
<br>
In such circumstances opinions which diverged from the chosen picture of<br>
reality were unwelcome. The truth perhaps hurts most - and provokes most<br>
anger in - those whose are increasingly distant from it. Thus in Spain in<br>
particular the broad current of European though groping towards the<br>
Enlightenment in the latter 17th century was unpalatable and had to be<br>
prevented from polluting the nation. The movement of scientific enquiry,<br>
raised on the shoulders of Bacon, Desc artes, Locke and Spinoza, was a<br>
direct challenge to the inquisitorial world view. The Inquisition could<br>
sense from afar that there was an ideology which could deal it a mortal<br>
blow in a way that the conversos and the moriscis never had.<br>
<br>
The Inquisition was right to be suspicious, for some of the more<br>
importnant roots of this ideology did indeed penetrate back to the very<br>
people whom the inquisitors had pursued remorselessly for so long, the<br>
conversos. The development of the scientific world view was in fact deeply<br>
connected with the waves of persecution which the Inquisition had first<br>
unleashed in Spain at the end of the 15th century, 200 years before this<br>
era of decline." (Green, Toby. Inquisition, Reign of Fear. Pan Books,<br>
2008, p. 257)<br>
<br>
Bystander: Oh my, I think you are a few hundred years off! ha ha<br>
<br>
Street sweeper: After all, it is quite logical that these programs would<br>
stop. At one point you run up against a wall when you ask for opening up<br>
databases. At that moment you will hear that this particular kind of data<br>
cannot be 'open' or 'disclosed'. After two years of opening up what can be<br>
opened up according to 'officials' you seem to hit a glass wall. That wall<br>
is 'state interest'. Then we ask: Hey but aren't we the state? Ah not<br>
quite, it seems.<br>
<br>
Just keep asking and the beast will eventually have to show itself.<br>
<br>
Singer: (Van Morrison: paraphrasing:<br>
<br>
You can take all that data from the USA<br>
put it in a big brown bag for me<br>
sail it right round these seven oceans<br>
drop it straight into the deep blue sea<br>
<br>
she's as sweet as Tupelo Honey<br>
just like honey baby from the bee<br>
<br>
you can't stop us on the road of freedom<br>
<br>
and while you at it closing all your fences, leave the lights on in<br>
Bradley Manning's cell and give him a good nights sleep<br>
<br>
then go look for the bees<br>
<br>
they are leaving<br>
<br>
salut! Rob<br>
<br>
<br>
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