The December 2001 issue of First Monday (volume 6, number 12) is now
available at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/

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Table of Contents

Volume 6, Number 12 - December 3rd 2001

Free Software/Free Science
by Christopher M. Kelty
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/kelty/

Re-engineering Scientific Credit in the Era of the Globalized
Information Economy
by Philip Mirowski
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/mirowski/

Code, Culture and Cash: The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development
by David Lancashire
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/lancashire/

The Economics of Software Distribution over the Internet Revisited<
by Yaron Ilan
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/ilan/

The Electronic Starry Plough: The Enationalism of the Irish
Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM)
by Michael Dartnell
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/dartnell/

Communicating Information about the World Trade Center Disaster:
Ripples, Reverberations, and Repercussions
by Michael Blakemore and Roger Longhorn
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/blakemore/

The Day the World Changed: Implications for Archival, Library, and
Information Science Education
by Richard J. Cox with Mary K. Biagini, Toni Carbo, Tony Debons,
Ellen Detlefsen, Jose Marie Griffiths, Don King, David Robins,
Richard Thompson, Chris Tomer, and Martin Weiss
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/cox/

Libraries, the Internet and September 11
by Judy Matthews and Richard Wiggins
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/matthews/

Book Reviews
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_12/reviews/

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                             CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
                   FM 2 Speed Demons, Contemplative Places: The Digital
                      Importance of Momentum and Meditation
                        The Second First Monday Conference
                         5-6 August 2002, Aarhus, Denmark
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                              Please distribute!

Speed - it means a lot in this digital era and brings with it a lot
of meanings. We expect speed to increase in transportation, in the
ways that organisations change, in the arrival of new products, in
the creation of services, in peak performance in sports, and
everywhere else. Speed is considered by some as the ultimate
parameter of competition translating into increased profit and
productivity. Speed is felt - unconsciously or consciously - at some
level by everyone. Speed affects the ways we define 'control',
'certainty', and 'predictability'. Still, there are many processes
that cannot - yet - be accelerated much; a pregnancy, the growth of a
tree, the creation of art, the healing of sorrow or trauma, and
learning all take time.

The Internet and information technology have advanced the prominent
role of speed, but does technology have meaning in non-accelerative
processes? Should traditional oases of contemplation, such as
libraries, churches, museums, and ateliers, ban or embrace the
Internet? How can we organise knowledge mean when knowledge creation
is in a flux? What cultural heritage will be left for future
generations?

This conference will consider these and other related questions and
examine them from different perspectives - artistic, scientific,
historical, religious, and political. Speakers and participants are
invited for two days to dwell in a discourse of value characterised
by sustainability, fascination and wonder, and feeling.

The organisers of the conference are:

The Alexandra Institute, Center for New Ways of Working
(http://nwow.alexandra.dk) conducts research and consulting in design
and evaluation of the integration of mobile and pervasive ICT,
workspace design, and knowledge management in project organised
collaborative work organisations.

First Monday (http://firstmonday.org), is one of the most widely read
peer-reviewed, Internet-only journals, dedicated to the Internet.
Over one million papers were downloaded from First Monday's server in
the year 2000, accessed by some 340,000 unique hosts using the
Internet from 160 different countries. Published since May 1996,
originally in Copenhagen and now in Chicago, First Monday has
published 322 papers, written by 382 different authors, in its five
year history, as well as reviews and interviews.

The State and University Library (http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk) is
one of Denmark's national libraries and the main library of Aarhus
University. A key target for the Library, which is 100 years old in
2002, is to optimize the use of information technology to provide
users with ready and unimpeded access to all relevant types of
information, whether held on paper or electronically. At the same
time the preservation of cultural heritage is one of the Library's
tasks. The Library is involved in a project to preserve Danish
cultural heritage which exists on the Internet.

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