[Mindjack Release] November 04, 2002

[Donald Melanson]

Mindjack Release - November 04, 2002
http://www.mindjack.com

Feature:

Inside The Internet Archive
by Doug Roberts

"Tucked away in one of the seediest neighborhoods of San Francisco is a 
roomful of over two hundred computers with a terabyte of data stored on 
every three. Stairs from the street lead up an intimidating hallway that 
opens into a room with 15-foot ceilings and just-this-side of hip 
ductwork in the ceiling. To the right is a storage area with a single 
desk, to the left are Baker's racks tightly packed with off-the-shelf HP 
desktop machines, each turned on it's side to maximize the space. 
Somewhere in all that ductwork, a fan is squeaking painfully. Walking 
into this echoey, over-warm warehouse space, it's easy to be 
underwhelmed until you realize what you are looking at: spinning away on 
these computers is nothing less than a copy of the Internet from 1996 
until today."

http://www.mindjack.com/feature/archive.html

Books:

Smart Mobs
by Howard Rheingold
reviewed by Cory Doctorow

"Howard Rheingold's Smart Mobs is not the first book to be written about 
the ad-hocratic times we find ourselves living in, and it won't be the 
last, but page for page, you won't find a better summing-up of all the 
disparate bitzenpieces that add up to a genuine social revolution."

http://www.mindjack.com/books/smartmobs.html