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    <title>cmdln.net_2007-11-28</title>
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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17"/>
    <outline text="Word of the Week: cosmic rays" Offset="02:07">
      <outline text="http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/cosmic-rays.html"/>
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    <outline text="Book Review: Code 2.0" Offset="04:19">
      <outline text="Original edition was published in 1999">
        <outline text="The second edition was produced in part through a wiki"/>
        <outline text="Much of the original question on the book has been answered"/>
        <outline text="Question is still worth examining"/>
        <outline text="While the focus of the book is on the Internet, I think the lessons apply well to technology in general"/>
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      <outline text="Book is broken in five parts that progress from the core question through the issues, perspectives to some tentative answers"/>
      <outline text="First part presents the questions">
        <outline text="How are spaces, in particular online spaces regulable?"/>
        <outline text="Defines what it means to be regulable and how to regulate"/>
        <outline text="Also delves a bit into different kinds of spaces"/>
        <outline text="First presents his four point model"/>
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      <outline text="Part two discusses code, specifically">
        <outline text="Sets it up as a built environment"/>
        <outline text="An architecture that is self executing but constructed"/>
        <outline text="Contrasts this to physical laws of nature which are self executing but found"/>
        <outline text="Discusses open code and how it interacts with regulability"/>
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      <outline text="Third part is most interesting, explores latent ambiguities">
        <outline text="Really gets at the effect of changing technology"/>
        <outline text="Coincidental values, because architecture is just so"/>
        <outline text="When crafted architecture changes, how conflicts in values get exposed"/>
        <outline text="Are there values to be preserved or were they things we took for granted?"/>
        <outline text="Discussing the traditional of translation of constitutional values"/>
        <outline text="Also discusses ambiguities of intellectual property, privacy and free speech, specifically"/>
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      <outline text="Part four talks about competing sovereignties">
        <outline text="Digs into the notions of the internet as its own sovereignty"/>
        <outline text="Defines it more practical, talking about civil, merchant sovereignties"/>
        <outline text="In reading this it occurred that if we took a defining characteristic of civil and re-defined monopolies, like telcos, that's at least an interesting though experiment"/>
        <outline text="Delves into issues of jurisdiction"/>
        <outline text="Re-visits location as choice in internet code"/>
        <outline text="Code can be changed in regulation by location is desired"/>
        <outline text="Re-inforces point that code is not just so, it is based on choices"/>
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      <outline text="Part five offers some responses">
        <outline text="Like Free Culture, does not offer hard answers"/>
        <outline text="Has some excellent suggestions, thought provoking ideas"/>
        <outline text="Especially liked idea of deliberative polls to check fast pulse polls"/>
        <outline text="Overall focus more on the questions and how we think about them"/>
        <outline text="I think he does a better job of equipping the reader to find their own answers"/>
        <outline text="This is why I admire him as a teacher, though his classroom teaching is understandably different than his writings, presentations"/>
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      <outline text="Final chapter finally made sense of my own issues with being libertarian">
        <outline text="Skepticism should not mean passivity"/>
        <outline text="No regulation is not the right response"/>
        <outline text="The reality is regulation is inevitable, so the struggle is to deliberate"/>
        <outline text="To find the right choices, compromises"/>
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      <outline text="Denser than Free Culture">
        <outline text="Took me maybe three times as long to read"/>
        <outline text="Is not three times longer than Free Culture"/>
        <outline text="Still accessible but takes more time to digest examples, history"/>
        <outline text="Questions are more expansive, broader than Free Culture"/>
        <outline text="Does build on itself, though, so feels like a solid grounding"/>
        <outline text="Key reading for anyone interested in technology, public policy"/>
        <outline text="Definitely see the roots of his current work on corruption"/>
        <outline text="Beyond just the exploration of regulatory mechanics, part five actually posits the question of money's influence of policy"/>
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      <outline text="If you read Free Culture and want more and are unafraid of the deep end, then I highly recommend">
        <outline text="I think it should be required reading for everyone"/>
        <outline text="Would not recommend to everyone, though"/>
        <outline text="Definitely requires time, attention, critical thought"/>
        <outline text="Otherwise it is overwhelming and won't serve good purpose"/>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="24:15">
      <outline text="Contact me">
        <outline text="Email to feedback@thecommandline.net"/>
        <outline text="Web site at http://thecommandline.net/"/>
        <outline text="IM to command.line@skype"/>
        <outline text="Listener comment line is 240-949-2638"/>
        <outline text="del.icio.us tag is &quot;for:cmdln&quot;"/>
        <outline text="http://twitter.com/cmdln"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="I'd like to thank libsyn.com for AAC hosting and Wouter de Bie for MP3 hosting"/>
      <outline text="These notes and the show audio and music are covered by a Creative Commons license">
        <outline text="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"/>
        <outline text="Attribution, non-commercial, share alike"/>
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