The Making of a Commons
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Transcript of The Making of a Commons
Making Worlds: An OWS Forum on the Commons
presentation by
Thomas Lowenhaupt, Connecting.nyc Inc.
February 18, 2012
The Making of a Commons
Top Level Domains or TLDs
Today - .com .org .edu .uk .es
Soon - .berlin .paris .nyc .cairo .mumbai .chicago .boston
Make better networks
Cities were networking centers for 10,000 years before the Internet was invented.
Traditional Digital Networks
Reality
The Real Reality: Jackson Pollock's #7
The TLD Industry Today
GoDaddy & Verisign
More names sold = more $
= Success
The TLD Industry
for Cities
Success = quality of life improvements
Cities and Networks
From our complexity comes the strength of our city.Jane Jacobs
Cities and Networks
Cities and Networks
Internet arrived 1993 - Uninvited --Unplanned -
What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
One example
What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
Neighborhoods
Local CommunicationResource Comparison
Terre Haute, Ind. Jackson Heights
Population 105,000 100,000
TV Stations 2
Daily Papers 1
Radio Stations 8
Local CommunicationResource Comparison
Terre Haute, Ind. Jackson Heights
Population 105,000 100,000
TV Stations 2 0
Daily Papers 1 0
Radio Stations 8 0
Internet Today
What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
Jackson Heights has 12 online sites touching on local needs.
What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
Jackson Heights has 12 online sites touching on local needs
Park Slope has more blogs than people ;)
JacksonHeights.nyc
ParkSlope.nyc
What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
Corona.nyc
55,000 residents
What's So Good About Them?
Aren't they Obsolescent?
Neighborhood vs. Beer
Request #1
Help figure out how to make Corona.nyc work for the residents of that neighborhood.
Request #2
Reach out to Occupy cities globally and join together to make this work for us all.
Civic Network
Better than neighborhood names?Beth.Jones.voter.nyc
connectingnyc.org
blog.connectingnyc.org
wiki.connectingnyc.org
Tom Lowenhaupt
[email protected]
and thank you Matt Cooperrider wherever you are.
Commons To Come
IoT Creates Big Data with our info.
HyperGrid Open source connections for online worlds.
http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Hypergrid Big Data
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