Dear New Media Curators
Since about 4-5 Months i read the new media curating list (Sabine
Himmelsbach
from the Edith Russ Site for Media Art pointed me towards this list)
My name is Hans Bernhard from UBERMORGEN.COM (founding member of
etoy.com), now for the first time i have something to post, although
it is not a
contribution to a discussion threat but a call for solidarity
initiated by Geert
Lovink for our work in progress project GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself (a
collaboratin between UBERMORGEN.COMs Lizvlx myself and Alessandro
Ludovico from Neural.it and Paolo Cirio).
Thanks for your understanding!
Hans-
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Call for Support: Link to Google Will Eat Itself
by Geert Lovink
http://www.networkcultures.org/geert/2007/03/22/call-for-support-link-
to-google-will-eat-itself/
Google Will Eat Itself ( http://www.gwei.org ) announced that is now
fully censored on all Google Search-Indexes worldwide. What a scandal!
The idea behind GWEI is simple:
Google Will Eat Itself generates money by serving Google text
advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money GWEI
automatically buy Google shares. GWEI buys Google via their own
advertisment. Google eats itself - but in the end “we” own it. By
establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new
global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-
based economic model. After this process GWEI hands over the common
ownership of “our” Google Shares to the GTTP Ltd. [Google To The
People Public Company] which distributes them back to the users
(clickers) / public.
Let’s break the silence and put a link to this project on our sites
and blogs: http://www.gwei.org. Give Google back to people! GWEI is
an interesting case how to imagine a new global public sphere. How to
reverse privatization and rethink a truely public Internet without
the Googles and Yahoos.
Thanks for your support!
The GWEI-Team
Vienna, Bari, Turin, March 2007
UBERMORGEN.COM (Lizvlx/Hans Bernhard), Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo
Cirio
http://www.gwei.org
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Hans Bernhard
UBERMORGEN.COM / etoy.holding
Skype Hans_Bernhard
Studio +43 1 236 19 85
Mobile +43 650 930 00 61
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