Tag: gifts
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Giving, Giving, Gone – A Gift Edition Update
I have been writing a lot about gifts so far in this blog. Partly because I think Public Gifting and Gift Economies are important practices in the digital OS3 world, just as they are in the oral OS1 world. Also because I am publicly giving away gifts myself. Specifically I am giving away copies of…
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Array of Words and The Manilla Street Kid Digital Gift Economy
Last night at the Capital Slam I met a poet who recently returned from several months in the Philippines and Nicaragua. In both countries he gave numerous poetry workshops. Very cool. He is a hard-hitting poet whose piece about the selling of girls into sexual slavery in Asia last night was brutally intense. His name…
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Public Gifting as Good Times and Good Business
I believe that networked culture – what I call OS3 – has a great deal to learn from oral culture, which I call OS1. Because they are both all about dialogues. Whereas OS2 culture – which currently dominates our world – is all about monologues. The reason that OS3 has a lot to learn from…
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Gifts and Books, Books and Gifts
So I’ve finished writing my masterpiece, my new book, You Are Your Media. What do I do now? I’ve thought a lot about this lately. Not just because it is of direct personal relevance to me but because the future of literate culture – or OS2 culture, as I call it – is one of…
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