Free Wilderness: Free, Modulatable Book, Kelty's "Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software," Information Technology Revolution

Of the about 200 academic books in https://web.archive.org/web/20100220014826/http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Main_Page (webnographers.org) about the Internet Revolution, only one, Chris Kelty's "Two Bits," is modulatable, - an innovation in open source and free idea sharing, significantly due to digital technologies and the internet.




Kelty, Christopher M. 2008. Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


This book is designed as an academic conversation which you can help write; it's designed to be interactively edited and modulated. You can find it here at https://web.archive.org/web/20100710041820/http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Books (webnographers.org/index.php?title=Books#Free_Software_Culture)


'Two Bits' from Duke University Press is also available for free, as part of the free software movement, here: twobits.net, where you can modulate it.

It's like a wiki (editable web pages).


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Anthropology of Software - Here's a Harvard video of Chris Kelty talking about the Modulatable & Free "Two Bits" (DukeU) -

cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/4386


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Invitation to modulate World University & School: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University




















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/free-wilderness-modulatable-book-chris.html - December 7, 2009)

Snow in Canyon, Arabesque, Light dusting of snow! Illuminates World

Snow's Arabesque in Canyon at Day Rise


Light dusting of snow! in Canyon, before daylight has risen. Cloud hovers in the redwood valley. It's a beautiful, illuminated world in the dark.



Snow on green leafs - soft view to west. Sky is gray and bed is warm. Snow on oak tree to east is vivid beautiful dark-light contrast. Rain on the roof.



O my goodness - arabesqued, infinite white caps on green forested valley before eliciting the relaxation response cloud atop ridge.



First ridge to east is a Scottish moor with snow. Second ridge with green growth has snow contrasted. Third rippling mountain ridge is not there ~ in clouds.



Canyon kids walk through this unfamiliar snowy world. Arabesque ridge has become subtle - snow melting quickly - change is afoot.



Redwood ridge is back in nuanced sight. Redwoods carry no snow, trees in between - arabesque, shimmery bubbles of green white. Cloud intermingles in rich, fluid movement.



Light show with landscape - pretty wild and beautiful - is here on the ridge in Canyon, California, these mornings.



Sun just came out for the first time. Redwood ridge is illuminated green & golden, ~ light clouds are drifting through. Variety & color emerge - green greetings.



Snow is on the ground - unusual for Canyon - still. It's beautiful. Working on my book ...










































(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/snow-in-canyon-arabesque-light-dusting.html - December 7, 2009)

Western Meadowlark: Freedom of Mind, Hippy Journals & Art, World Univ Wiki-Barnraising

Freedom of bodymind

Political-social constitutional freedoms, - eg speech, and

Freedom to care, as well as explore and elicit loving bliss fully, neurophysiologically and creatively.


Agency - free choice - independent thinking are great to think about and 'engage' ... We're lucky in the U.S. for this ...


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Heavy rains 2 weeks ago were actually brief - we're supposed to have a week of rain now - it seems drier than the early 90s in the SF Bay Area. Data?

Copenhangen Global Warming Summit & the E.P.A. are both making significant announcements about this.

What can we notice in our own lives? What can we do? What knowledge can we generate about this?


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Scott: Hippy journals, hippy art, grateful dead art. There was an amazing abundance of this. And it was wild! Where is it all? Teach this at worlduniversity.wikia.com

Friend: It's on Archive.org
I had to trim a 3 hour+ bootleg down to 2 hours for a trial broadcast on http://1radio.org

Scott: A lot of these art and writings also expressed a beautiful vision, - peace, love and happiness, and cosmic explorations. Saw some interesting hippie journals at Harbin 1-2 years ago as part of an art exhibit in the restaurant. A county museum around Mendocino also has a permanent exhibit of a hippie van plus ...

Thanks, Friend ... it's probably also in libraries around the SF Bay Area in particular, and in individual organization's libraries, and in homes, but all over...


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Building-Barnraising is fun.

Wikipedia-'Barnraising' vis-a-vis World University is fun & illuminating construction.

'Edit this Page': University & School.




















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/western-meadowlark-freedom-of-mind.html - December 7, 2009)

Waterfall: Loving Bliss Neurophysiology Offset by 'Weather' ... ?, Creative Contact is Healing, Connect with World Univ

What happens when loving bliss neurophysiology, which you're cultivating, is offset by 'weather' ... ?


What to do with such 'weather' (uncomfortable or discomfiting neurophysiology) to get to bow strokes, or the musical scores, of loving bliss neurophysiology?


Relaxation response helps, in my experience ... as well as flax seed oil {for omega fatty acids}, then music {and regular, restful sleep and good diet and exercise} ...


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What have I learned through contact improv about this uncomfortable 'weather' vis-a-vis eliciting loving bliss neurophysiology? Creative contact is healing ...
and can transform 'weather' ...


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A Contact Improv subject and World University wiki?

Connect with World University & School ....

Invitation to add to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Contact_Improvisation






















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/waterfall-loving-bliss-neurophysiology.html - December 6, 2009)

Elephant Birth: World University & School as Public Option Please with Degree- & Credit- Granting, Free Harvard Ph.D. - Apply before New Year

Public Option Please - World University & School - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com with degree-, credit granting, music, & creative openness worldwide - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses - Free Harvard Ph.D. in education for 25 - apply this month: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses#Free_Degree_Programs


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Google WAVE is a cool communication tool. If you want to use WAVE together,
add worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com to your WAVE contacts and we can
explore. Best, Scott - facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141







(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com - December 5, 2009)

Cave Biology: Is Canyon a Stop on the Hippy Trail? Internet Public Library, Grateful Dead Jam

Heard some fascinating stories today about the history of Canyon, California at the Canyon School Arts Faire.

Is Canyon a stop on the hippie trail in 2009? Counterculture was about now, so it can't be ...


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What are the best web sites for international networks of public libraries, worldwide? Let's add them to worlduniversity.wikia.com


found and added The Internet Public Library to worlduniversity.wikia.com see Library Resources - rich resource. WUaS is growing & has a lot! of resources ... worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources#Academic_Archive_or_Library


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Let's invite public libraries around the world to list worlduniversity.wikia.com as access to great universities' FREE Open Courses, Library Resources, Educational Freeware, and invite these publics to collaborate on the development of World University & School.


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... couldn't obtain "The Phantom Factor: Impact of the Cold War on Anthropology" by Laura Nader (Current Anthropology, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Feb., 1999),

at the Berkeley PUBLIC library, even,

- no JSTOR academic journals' database access -

Does this reflect an information lock down, in the land of free speech?

Societal information lock down? let's make jstor available here at the open, free worldunversity.wikia.com through a great university

Let's get public libraries to list World University & School as first choice for access great universities' courses, library resources et al


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Innovation in worlduniversity.wikia.com , like Wikipdedia, will occur through group collaboration - sharing ideas openly - eg WAVE


= plans to use Google WAVE translation between all 3000- 8000 languages over time, if possible


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worlduniversity.wikia.com LIBRARY RESOURCES has open source textbook section with around 10 textbooks - Looking for world class textbooks ... in all languages and for all nation states - please add links


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Arts Faire at the Canyon School on Pinehurst Rd today from 11-4 east of Berkeley in a redwood forest. Canyon is beautiful - come check it out


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Hawaiian-ish music ~ "Friends of Old Puppy" ~ {youtube.com/watch?v=CZPb7SabHDI} at Nabolom's bakery collective in Berkeley this morning - it's a 10-1 happening - I like their chocolatines, esp. & fair trade coffee


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Grateful Dead, candle light, a warm, cozy home, "Dark Star - youtube.com/watch?v=d1igVj3w8KE" & "St Stephen with a Rose" Jamming Music, & with it The Dead go amazing places


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Gray, blue, white over the distant rippling mountains to the east. Redwood ridge to west is bright & gray. Grateful Dead are Jamming in the air... and I'm singing with ... good way to bring music-making to life ... sing along at home ... :)











(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/cave-biology-stories-about-and-history.html - December 5, 2009)

Sun Rising: Gray-red-orange grows over the distant rippling mountains eastward

Sun Rising


Gray-red-orange grows over the distant rippling mountains eastward. The redwood ridge to the west is muted gray. Good morning to music.



The sky to the east lightens, and blue emerges. The redwood forest to the west blushes with rosy fingers of dawn. O, the rose-illuminated dark green is so soft!



The sun hints through the blue-leaved eucalyptus tree, from behind the eastward ridge. And an orange-pink cloud shines! above the redwood forest to the west in the growing blue sky. To the relaxation response.



Day is here. The eastern ranges are pale and calm in the new day. Light-orange lights the redwoods particularly. And the light just changed again!



To the east a very light cloud now hovers over the mountain-valley. To the redwood west, the ridge changes from no sun to illuminated. Such changes all around!












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/sun-rising-gray-red-orange-grows-over.html - Friday, December 4, 2009)

Polar Bears and Sea Gulls: Invitation to Join World Univ & Sch, An Inspired Society of Friends' Meeting for Idea Sharing, Innovation Thru Group Collab

Please join the World University & School Google Group & Facebook pages: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University ~ WUaS is a wiki (editable web pages) University & School -

Facebook Page: facebook.com/group.php?gid=48753608141 &


Google Group: groups.google.com/group/World-University-and-School :)


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added LibraryThing, TweetChat, & AskClass.net to worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources & FREE Educational_Software Wiki & MIT Open Course Ware


Here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Library_Resources

& here: worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Educational_Software


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sees worlduniversity.wikia.com like an inspired Society of Friends' (Quaker) open Meeting for Idea Sharing - like Wikipedia w MIT Open Course Ware


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Innovation in worlduniversity.wikia.com, like Wikipdedia, will occur through group collaboration - sharing ideas openly



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It's a whale! in the photo (click on title) ...


















(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/polar-bears-and-sea-gulls-invitation-to.html - December 3, 2009)

Most Distant Space Objects: Turning Flips through the Air at the Harbin Dance, "Throw Down Your Heart," Why not sing with friends ... over the phone?

I visited Harbin yesterday and today ...



Here's an ongoing, occasional record, as ethnographic insight, into what happens at Harbin.



The weather in early December is so nice in California. We may have had only around 7 days of rain so far this fall. And the temperature is generally mild.

I went first to the pools. Alligator day had just ended. It's a regular draining and cleaning of the pools, which perhaps sometimes makes unexpecting guests feel like alligators. People in the remaining 2 feet of water or so, at its lowest, may also look like alligators, compared with when the water is high; people often look beautiful, nude, in the warm pool. People can soak in the heart-shaped pool on Alligator day, though, which is just a little cooler than the body temperature water of the warm pool. Alligator day can also be 'festive' - people chat with each other in the warm pool as the water is filling up, and the warm pool is a little less meditatively quiet than usual. I've occasionally seen large numbers of rubber duckies in the pools, as well as lots of kids in the warm pool, when the water is low, whereas kids aren't allowed in the warm pool when the water is high.

At the Tuesday night dance in the conference center, the music was great and very danceable. The space is harmonious, beautiful in a modern way with a lot of wood, and really well designed - especially for Harbin workshops and dances. I found myself turning flips through the air onto a large pile of pillows during the dance. The dances are mostly hippie boogies.

I'm amazed that Harbin in a way has institutionalized "the party," that they have created an adult playground, where kids, hippies and Bohemians of all kinds come to play. This thinking comes directly from counterculture and the 1960s. Harbin is very cool in 2009.

I wonder, too, how Harbin is performative in an anthropological sense. And while these are my ethnographic observations above, Harbin attracts a significant number of people these days, even in mid week in the winter; so variety and subjectivity of experience is diverse, and, as a whole, represents Harbin's 'culture,' - a pretty cool fabric of life. Writing or representing Harbin ethnographically might be complemented richly with an ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy approach, where many Harbin folks might represent it over years.


At 9, I went to see "Béla Fleck: Throw Down Your Heart," in the Harbin theater. In so doing I missed the Full Moon Ceremony in the warm pool. "Throw Down Your Heart" is an inspiring musical collaboration between a very fine banjo player (Béla Fleck), interested in African music, and musicians in a number of African villages in east Africa. The very inspirational Tanzanian musician Aniyo (sp?) seemed to have been personally transformed by music-making, in a very happy way. At one point after making music with Béla, Aniyo says "We are together," which is what music can do, and did for them in this film.

[THROW DOWN YOUR HEART, directed by Sascha Paladino, follows American banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck on his journey to Africa to explore the little known African roots of the banjo and record an album. Béla’s boundary-breaking musical adventure takes him to Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali, and provides a glimpse of the beauty and complexity of Africa].

After waking, I went back to the pool area in the morning. In the pool area, I began re-reading Ish's book "Oneness in Living." It's Ishvara's (Harbin's founder in 1972) remarkable record of Harbin language and thinking, and the 1960s and 70s, the New Age, and much else. I'll return to it again soon. After soaking in the pools, I ate lunch by myself outside in the now-dormant garden, sitting on the ground near an apple tree, not far from Harbin's beautiful temple (built in 2005).

Harbin creates a harmony, and kinds of togetherness, that are very far-reaching, and which emerge significantly from life around the pools. Harbin reminds me of so much, but a little, here, of the Beatle's song "Come Together." I get 'there' {to 'coming together'} at Harbin. You can too.



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Time to read Alan Watts closely. He wrote about some of the themes I explore in this blog, I'm realizing, during the 1960s.


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Why not sing with friends ... over the phone, for example? Why isn't this a common practice?


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This is far out:

Most distant objects seeable with the naked eye:
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2008/brightest_grb.html












(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/most-distant-space-objects-turning.html - December 2, 2009)

Japanese Snow Monkeys: Focus - Human Primates' Wont, Cultural Flourishings & Creation of Great Art, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day

The weather is warm today & people here near the redwoods in Canyon, and the San Francisco Bay Area, are focused, as human primates are wont to do - some on the relaxationresponse.org.

It's interesting to me that we primates focus a lot, but don't often think of life this way. And our actions are often symbolically informed especially vis-a-vis reason.


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Ancient Greece, the Italian Renaissance, the French Revolution, the American Revolution, New England Transcendentalism {e.g. in a way, Thoreau, Dickinson, Whitman}, and the revolutions of the 1960s & counterculture, as well as the internet revolution, (the 'revolution' meme has been compelling to humans} have all brought about profound changes, and great ones, for people, as well as great writings and art. They all involved also certain kinds of focusing. Each of these times has created a milieu for people which has been transformatory, often against any established order, and for the better of people (e.g. democracy, philosophy, mathematics, - everything in ancient Greece). And each represents a kind of cultural flourishing.


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Friend {and to Harbin?}:

Here's a favorite poem of mine by Shakespeare - (Sonnet 18):




Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?

by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)


Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.









(http://www.fleurdelis.com/shallIcomparethee.htm)







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Macaca fuscata

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Macaque


Wonderful photos of Snow Monkeys in warm pools:


images.google.com/images?q=japanese%20snow%20monkey&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi



Japanese Snow Monkeys
Japanese Macaque






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To Harbin & the relaxation response in the pools :)






(http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2009/12/japanese-snow-monkeys-focus-human.html - December 1, 2009)