Category: Digital Culture

So…a little about me:

I’m a current Master’s student in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. My academic interests have to do with privacy, information ownership and digital rights, copyright and copyleft, the future of information sharing, structure, and availability. My background is in philosophy, and it shows in some of my interests.

Outside of academia, I’m a computer nut, and a gamer. My primary gaming outlet is as a playtester for the game Raw Deal, a collectible card game from Comic Images based on the World Wrestling Entertainment brand of professional wreslting. I’ve been watching pro wrestling since I was 7 years old, and aside from the silly storylines at times, really appreciate the athleticism and skill it takes.

Those are my rough interests, which I’m sure I’ll flesh out as this blog grows over time.

Done with the presentation by esr. Very interesting stuff, especially the discussion of how to influence business to migrate to open source alternatives. Mainly concerned with appealing to Fear, Greed, and Ambition (here’s why you want to do this, here’s why you make more money doing this, and here’s why it will make you more important to the company, in short).

Good stuff all around. Heading off now to play Raw Deal (more on that later).

After having dinner with Eric Raymond and then having him speak in our class, I’m on my way to his public presentation. Should be interesting…not sure where I come down on the free/open debate. I’m guessing we’ll have more of a chance to discuss it as the semester rolls on.

Ok…so this really works. Great! I’ll see how often I come back to it and update….