This is the introduction to free The Creativity newspaper (circulation...

iTube, YouSpace, WeCreate (with Ned Rossiter)

By Geert Lovink, November 2, 2006

This is the introduction to free The Creativity newspaper (circulation 10,000) that will appear during the MyCreativity convention that we’re organizing at the moment. As we move closer to the event, more ‘creative industries’ related material will come online. iTube, YouSpace, WeCreate Geert Lovink & Ned Rossiter **Have We Been Creative Yet?** Conferences on ‘creative [...]

The interest from Italia for my work is not ceasing....

Yet another Web 2.0 interview

By Geert Lovink, October 29, 2006

The interest from Italia for my work is not ceasing. This time a ‘speed interview’ on email with the daily newspaper La Repubblica. It is a result of a visit to Naples earlier this month, organized by Vito Campanelli and others from the newly established Media & Arts Office. The weekend was a blast!

I added two new texts to my blog pages, both...

two new texts

By Geert Lovink, October 4, 2006

I added two new texts to my blog pages, both of them in German. The first is a slightly longer, yet unedited translation of my ‘crisis in new media arts’ essay, that appeared in the latest issue of Lettre International. This text already has a considerable version history, starting as a ‘supra.doc’, A Collection of [...]

Time to celebrate! Last Friday I sent off my book...

Zero Comments Sent Off–New Season

By Geert Lovink, September 15, 2006

Time to celebrate! Last Friday I sent off my book manuscript to Routlegde New York, the publisher of Zero Comments. You can understand it was a true relief, a month after coming back in Amsterdam from a ten month stay in Berlin at the Wissenschaftskolleg. As I read on the Routlegde site, Zero Comments is [...]

Some translations of work done in Berlin start to appear....

Web 2.0 Critique (auf Deutsch)

By Geert Lovink, September 8, 2006

Some translations of work done in Berlin start to appear. This week it is a German translation of the introduction to Zero Comments, my upcoming book. It is in fact a shortened version that only looks at the Web 2.0 hype. The piece was published by the Jungle World weekly in their Lekker Käseblatt special [...]

I just posted an online conversation with Ken Werbin from...

Critique of Ranking and Listing; Exchange with Kenneth C. Werbin

By Geert Lovink, August 24, 2006

I just posted an online conversation with Ken Werbin from Montreal on my blog. The dialogue deals with lists–from electronic mailinglists (like nettime) to lists that Nazi bureaucrats made of Jews and others that had to be deported. What happens when you create a list? What are the technologies and what continuities are there?

It is easy to create myths–and can take decades or...

Blogging and Journalism, Cracking the Myth

By Geert Lovink, August 20, 2006

It is easy to create myths–and can take decades or centuries to destroy them. The link between blogging and journalism is one of them. It is not all that hard to see that there is no direct relationship between keep a blog and the news industry. Nonetheless this is one of the founding myths of [...]

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>Mrabba Electroni[c]que: Global Lebanon Web Jam. Stop the war!>>>...

Mrabba Electroni[c]que: Global Lebanon Web Jam (August 12, 2006)

By Geert Lovink, August 11, 2006

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>Mrabba Electroni[c]que: Global Lebanon Web Jam. Stop the war!>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Saturday, August 12 2006, 15:00 – 19:00 PM CEST [–> 16:00 – 20:00 EEST] http://beirut.streamtime.org http://streamtime.org Live audio/video streaming transmission from Waag Society in Amsterdam, in direct connection with Beirut and surrounding localities. The event was initiated by Streamtime, a web support campaign for [...]

Running updates is an integral part of our technological culture....

Theory of the Update – Updating Theory

By Geert Lovink, July 12, 2006

Running updates is an integral part of our technological culture. It is considered a necessary evil. Not downloading the patches would be suicidal. In contemporary theory production this practice has not yet been introduced. Within the humanities and the arts wikis remain underutilized. Theory is still considered a terrain of the sole author who contemplates [...]

Out-Cooperating the Empire? – Exchange with Christoph Spehr

By Geert Lovink, July 8, 2006

(photo: Ned Rossiter) I have just uploaded an exchange with Christoph Spehr, the German ‘free cooperation’ theorist, on creative labour and the hybrid work of cooperation. This online dialogue grew out of the work that Trebor Scholz and I did on the documentation of the Free Cooperation project. A book is scheduled to come out [...]