Fwd: Berkeley Cybersalon March 13

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From: Michele McGinnis (mm@kk.org)
Date: Tue Mar 08 2005 - 13:45:25 PST 

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 13:45:25 -0800
From: Michele McGinnis <mm@kk.org>
Subject: Fwd: Berkeley Cybersalon March 13

fyi, m

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>*Berkeley** Cybersalon* /Information Wants to be Free, But Programmers
>Want To Get Paid
>/Sunday, March 13, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
>The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley
>
>"The secret string in Stewart [Brand]'s famous aphorism 'Information
>wants to be free' is in the part that got clipped off when the slogan
>
>became popularized. The full quote ran: 'Information wants to be
>free;
>information also wants to be expensive.' It's only when you can hold
>both of these principles in your head at once that you become a true
>information economy adept." -- Bruce Sterling, /Tomorrow Now/
>
>We'll be discussing how a creative class can be supported in a world
>of
>digital reproduction, global outsourcing, and declining pay rates for
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>writers and programmers with three information economy adepts:
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>*Paulina Borsook*, author (/Cyberselfish/). Paulina has been
>muttering
>darkly about the IP wars for more than ten years. As of March 13, her
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>good friend Tom Jennings will have launched
>http://www.paulinaborsook.com {http://www.paulinaborsook.com/}.
>*Jon Callas*, CTO, PGP (for Pretty Good Privacy) Corporation. He is
>also the publisher of /The Eristocracy/, an online magazine
>distributed by electronic mail since 1985.
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>*Phil Zimmermann*, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy, an email
>encryption software package. Originally designed as a human rights
>tool, PGP was published for free on the Internet in 1991.
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>Doors open at 6:00 and a $10 donation is requested for wine and
>cheese.
>Everyone is welcome, and the Hillside Club is wheelchair accessible.
>
>Directions:
>
>By car: From Oakland or the Bay Bridge, take Hwy 80 and exit at
>University, make a quick RIGHT under the freeway and onto the
>frontage
>road, and turn RIGHT at the 4RENT sign onto Cedar St. Continue
>straight
>two miles past Shattuck and park. From the Richmond Bridge, take Hwy
>80
>and exit LEFT at Gilman, turn RIGHT on San Pablo for a few blocks,
>and
>LEFT on Cedar St. 1.5 miles past Shattuck, and park.
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>By foot/bicycle: From downtown Berkeley BART, go north on Shattuck,
>and
>east on Cedar St. This is an easy and safe 15-minute walk.
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