Comments on: GVO Summit: The Power of Organized Utopianism http://registan.net/index.php/2008/06/27/gvo-summit-the-power-of-organized-utopianism/ All Central Asia, All The Time Fri, 25 May 2012 20:24:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Hudin http://registan.net/index.php/2008/06/27/gvo-summit-the-power-of-organized-utopianism/comment-page-1/#comment-377428 Hudin Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:55:49 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/06/27/gvo-summit-the-power-of-organized-utopianism/#comment-377428 Well written, Joshua. I was at first afraid your article was going to spiral in to the endless Newspeak that the GVO Summit was full of. In truth, it was a very American event in that it had little soundbites and not a great deal of meat to it. I seem to recall only at one point there was a fellow who stood up and asked the speaker from Belarus, "What can we do to help you?" While simple and direct, more of this type of talk would have helped a great deal, but then again, we're mostly dealing with a group of bloggers who, for however they want to phrase it are a reactionary bunch, yet not the activists so many of them believe themselves to be. Sitting at a keyboard does not inherently solve the ills of the world... <a href="http://www.hudin.com" rel="nofollow">Hudin</a> Well written, Joshua. I was at first afraid your article was going to spiral in to the endless Newspeak that the GVO Summit was full of. In truth, it was a very American event in that it had little soundbites and not a great deal of meat to it. I seem to recall only at one point there was a fellow who stood up and asked the speaker from Belarus, “What can we do to help you?”
While simple and direct, more of this type of talk would have helped a great deal, but then again, we’re mostly dealing with a group of bloggers who, for however they want to phrase it are a reactionary bunch, yet not the activists so many of them believe themselves to be. Sitting at a keyboard does not inherently solve the ills of the world…

Hudin

]]> By: Rod http://registan.net/index.php/2008/06/27/gvo-summit-the-power-of-organized-utopianism/comment-page-1/#comment-377404 Rod Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:42:18 +0000 http://www.registan.net/index.php/2008/06/27/gvo-summit-the-power-of-organized-utopianism/#comment-377404 Hi Joshua, I've been reading registan.net for quite a while (since around the time when Nathan's regular postings started tapering off), but I've hardly commented. Nice to know you made it to the GVO summit. I happen to be friends with that Singaporean blogger you mentioned, and like him I belong to an informal group of bloggers who have proposed to the Singapore govt. on issues regarding greater internet de-regulation in our country. We addressed certain laws regarding civil-political freedoms (or rather, the lack thereof) in Singapore as applied to blogging and internet use. We chose a number of major points of contention, which included an understanding of the "freedom to speak without consequence" and some such. You can read the proposals here: http://theonlinecitizen.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/proposals-for-internet-freedom-in-singapore-1.pdf Cheers. Hi Joshua,

I’ve been reading registan.net for quite a while (since around the time when Nathan’s regular postings started tapering off), but I’ve hardly commented.

Nice to know you made it to the GVO summit. I happen to be friends with that Singaporean blogger you mentioned, and like him I belong to an informal group of bloggers who have proposed to the Singapore govt. on issues regarding greater internet de-regulation in our country.

We addressed certain laws regarding civil-political freedoms (or rather, the lack thereof) in Singapore as applied to blogging and internet use. We chose a number of major points of contention, which included an understanding of the “freedom to speak without consequence” and some such.

You can read the proposals here:
http://theonlinecitizen.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/proposals-for-internet-freedom-in-singapore-1.pdf

Cheers.

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