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Goodbye to del.icio.us and simpy: I don’t get anything out of these social bookmarking services so I’m leaving them. The reason I joined was to share my bookmarks quickly and simply with others, in the case of del.icio.us, with a view to collaborating with others on creating a resource, in the case of simpy and the smithspolitics group. Yet as I still have a need for quick bookmarking and the global access a website provides me I’ve adopted a clone of the social bookmarking model, scuttle, and installed it here on robdyke....

nettime - content-free writing in narrow standardized inter-bred vernacular. “By slogan: in other words, by only learning the links, those keywords the grasp of which is anyway sufficient to spell out your allegiances to a certain ‘movement’ (I don’t wish to use the word ‘ideology’ here, which is too loaded with negative meaning). Keywords such as alterity, autonomy,biopower, bodies, communication, communism, corruption, desire, deterritorialization, discipline, desertion, empire, exodus, hybridization, immanence, multitude, etc. This listing is obviously not a complete one and its compiling – in alphabetical order, no less – is not of my making: the index at the end of the volume reflects a far from conventional choice, including names and keywords. As such, it is yet another tool for the hypertextual reading of the book (here’s a useful hint for all those who should choose to use Empire ‘by slogan’: in the index, the nested terms are in effect also all the strategic keywords you need).” Perhaps a filter/indicator/predictor of tendency towards / allegiances to a certain movement? Rob (i)Maria Turchetto, The Empire Strikes Back: On Hardt and Negri, Historical Materialism, volume 11:1 (23–36) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2003, Also available online – www.brill.nl...

I’m now a Friend of Cricklewood Library. I join the group last month and attended a meeting. Going to be making a few Freedom of Information requests to Brent Council in search of data on public consultation exercises and service use. More… when I’ve got my degree work finished?

Plenty of keyboard time coming up over the next few weeks… The dissertation project continues: are radical openness of f/los communities embodying resistance to Empire? My proposal was graded at 8/10 … must be doing something right. Now to maintain that effort! Also researching a paper on social. p2p and participatory financial models with specific reference to banking systems. Zopa, Kiva and Open Capital are my case studies. Meeting with the CFO of Zopa tomorrow!...

Spotted last weekend at the British Museum… Space Hijacking Santa’s Flash-mobbing the British Museum. What Do We Want? CHRISTMAS! When Do We Want It? NOW!