A friend once asked me why I seem to have this wealth of knowledge. Why I seem to be so smart. I would venture a guess that these links have a lot to do with it. The operative phrase here being "seem to be".
I used to have this ugly humongo link list on the left there. And as big as it is I keep wanting to add more (kinda like my bookmark habit, see below). So instead of making much more of a mess over there, I've decided to create a links page instead. It'd be kinda like a bunch of link-type blog posts mashed up together, only this time describing a bunch of links at the same time.
To keep things easy on the eyes, I've divided this links section into several categories. They are either in alphabetical order or some arbitrary psychological order I choose to impose upon you (your guess as good as mine). Generally they'll mostly be blogs (slipping the occasional website or two here and there), guessing that if you wanted a comprehensive guide to the Web you'd be better off browsing About.com, Yahoo! Directory or the Open Directory Project. Or Googlewhacking at random. You do remember don't you that there are other search engines aside from Google? And I haven't even mentioned Microsoft's new MSN Search (which I heard is quite good actually). And of course there's also Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia.
If I'm actually excited enough about any link I list here I'll post an 80x15 blog-button linking to them on the main side section. Or make one for them if they don't have one. Or, if I really have to, any button the site happens to provide.
And another note: these pages are obviously still under development. I doubt they'd ever be done. Abandoned, perhaps, but not done.
So here goes...
*I do have some thoughts to review you guys linked at my sidebar; just gimme a second as I'm still experincing brain-freeze from converting my links section...
In adition, here's some links that are not quite really 'external,' but I'd like to keep them handy anyways...
And finally, here's my Mozilla/Firefox bookmarks file -- to repeat an old saying: I'm a packrat when it comes to hitting Ctrl-D, and I try to be systematic about it, but as you can see the list just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Sometimes I actually find the courage to delete an entry or two. Sometimes.
Currently its about 800kbytes. You have been warned.
See, I'm not so smart after all; I just spend waaay too much time online :p
a blogchalk is details about a personal (usually a personal) blog and its author. This not really a blogchalk in the technical sense of a search-engine attracting collection of meta-tags and keywords, but more a line by line description of who I am...
Male, born very-early eighties, Jakarta, Indonesia, from Niasi parents, doesn't surf, would love to learn how. Fresh undergraduate (majoring Communication Sciences, specialisation Advertising), not too bright in college. FOSS and Free Culture admirer, wanna-be hacker, purported digital visual graphic artist. Open- minded spiritual (extremely non-strict Lutheran Protestant Christian), too easily influenced, struggling man-boy. Interested in understanding reiki, prana, chi, and other forms of energy (wonder if I'll ever learn). My bloginality is INFP (get your bloginality from here). And finally, my real name is Ferdinand Fanötöna Zebua (but isn't it dangerous to tell the world one's real name? Some would say one should...)
this article is the main page of the links section of fERDI:)'s mind-Dumpster.
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One particular issue I follow closely (which so far has not gained much attention from the rest of 'the real world') is the issue of Free Culture. It is an issue which at its heart seeks to correct how the world's effort to economically reward innovation has been skewered to reward some particularly big 'players' (such as the recording industry, big pharma, software juggernauts) with de-facto monopolies. Monopolies which in turn has stifled innovation.
To understand just exactly what I had said in that paragraph above, I suggest visiting the following blogs and sites.
A Copyfighter's Musings
I discovered him in the early days of my exploration into the Creative Commons movement. Forgot exactly just what he was talking about. He first began blogging during the DMCA protests, I think...
Creative Commons
Taken from the web page: "Creative Commons is a nonprofit that offers a flexible copyright for creative works." It was started by Lawrence Lessig after losing the Eric Eldred copyright case, which seek to overturn the Sony Bono Copyright Act. I first discovered about the Creative Commons by clicking on a little button at the bottom of WWdN. Quite similar to the slightly big one you'll find on my sidebar.
Dan Gillmor on Grasroots Journalism, etc.
"A conversation about the future of journalism "by the people, for the people" -- and occasional other thoughts." I first got wind of him through a Lessig post hinting his book, "We the Media," itself a very interesting read. He first got famous as a reporter covering the Silicon Valley dot-com bubble, according to Wikipedia.
freeculture.org
"freeculture.org: to build upon." An international student organisation promoting cultural freedom. Review coming soon...
Lawrence Lessig
Author of the books "Free Culture", "The Future of Ideas", and "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace". He also founded the Creative Commons with a few other people. First read about him in an interview in Fortune (I'll dig up the link to that article someday). One of his first widely distributed electronics work is a presentation he made for Oscon 2000 (an 8 meg flash presentation still widely streamed through KaZaA and Bittorent today).
Union for the Public Domain
The public domain is a term describing the legal space occupied by works which is considered to be copyrighted by nobody eg. owned by the public. The UDP is an international organization (international in a sense; so far members consist mostly of Americans and Europeans) dedicated to the preservation of that space. Without the public domain, every creative work, every idea, would be owned by somebody. Imagine a copyright on the English language (its in the public domain).
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I don't write intellectually. I write expressively. I don't claim to be accurate, fair or thorough. I don't wanna get stuck on certain topics. Though I sometimes do. But not that often. I'd like to expand. I wanna write more poems. But I'll only upload them if they're good. I only rant about my life's hardships if it will rescue just a little bit of my sanity. I'm saner than I make myself out to be, though.
If I am an OS kernel, and I just had a kernel dump, I'd imagine that the text in this blog is what it would more or less look like.
There. Do you get it?
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if you're curious
here's my oldest entry
the following are links to other people's blogs/websites. listed in alphabetical order within their respective categories.
more at my links section
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