Re: nettime How Silicon Valley’s CEOs

2014-02-01 Thread Brian Holmes
On 01/31/2014 04:26 AM, d.garcia wrote about: the wider problem of how to re-connect political activism to some form of re-booted labor movement able garner credibility from the workforce in these van garde creative economies exemplified by Silicon Valley Well, if the Valley is the hivemind

Re: nettime How Silicon Valley’s CEOs

2014-02-01 Thread Brian Holmes
On 02/01/2014 03:02 PM, Michael H Goldhaber wrote: Sadly, Brian misspoke (or miswrote) Indeed I misspoke - or deluded myself? A moment of wish-fulfillment? The interesting thing is that the neighboring airport town of SeaTac passed a 15-dollar minimum wage law. It was challenged and a judge

Re: nettime How Silicon Valley’s CEOs

2014-01-31 Thread d . garcia
Re: The Techtopus: How Silicon Valley?s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers? wages By Mark Ames --- This story reinforces the need to focus more analytical energy and imagination on the wider problem of how to re-connect political activism to some form of

nettime How Silicon Valley’s CEOs conspired to drive

2014-01-30 Thread Geert Lovink
(via Jodi Dean's blog) After having read Eric Schmidt's book The New Digital Age (written together with Jared Cohen), I believe it is important to publicly question Schmidt's public profile, one that is designed to portrayal him as an ordinary, innocent and friendly public intellectual who