Published in #nett magazine in 2008
What do open source, shareware and Wikipedia have in common? They’re all part of the ‘gift economy’, the idea that you can do work for nothing and ‘gift’ it to others and somehow, you will be provided for. By Rosanne Bersten. more »
Published in #nett magazine, 2008
The US sub-prime loan crisis was big news. Banks, notorious already for their profit-driven tactics, raised interest rates and refused to loan even to people with relatively solid credit ratings. Although peer-to-peer or social lending is only nascent, its long term ramifications are the same for the big banks as peer-to-peer file sharing has been for the record labels. If they don’t get in on the act themselves, they’ll fall by the wayside. more »
Published in Fast Thinking, 2007
Rosanne Bersten visits the SuperHappyDevHouse, where geeks prove the benefits of togetherness and tinker with the future. Download published version: The Happy Household (PDF) more »
Written for Fast Thinking, 2007. Not published… Version 2 was published instead.
Mike Lewis is 21. He’s rake thin, with dark hair, an eyebrow piercing and a winning smile. We’re in a large beautiful home in Los Altos, near San Jose, California. There are more than a hundred people here, drinking and partying. Mike bounces over to our photographer. “Do you work with film?” he asks. “I want to show you something!” He’s pulls out his own camera, a Canon Powershot A710. He’s hacked it so it works as a light meter. more »
Published in Fast Thinking, 2007
By Rosanne Bersten
1985. For two years running, the International Symposium on Organization Transformation has had incredibly dull, very traditional conferences where nothing much got done, except, oddly, when the conference wasn’t officially happening. People start to ask, “how come the best part of the conference is the coffee break? How do we make this one continual coffee break?” more »
Employment conditions in California’s Silicon Valley offer a window into Australia’s future under WorkChoices, writes Rosanne Bersten. Read the full article at New Matilda.
64 magazine was a project between rosanne bersten and dale campisi under the company name Vanguard Media. The magazine is an A6-sized mini-magazine for free street distribution, covering everything that’s hot in Melbourne, Australia whether it’s arts, culture, bars or cafés. rosanne was involved in editing and publishing the first three issues of the magazine before leaving for the US.
While there, she also wrote the following articles:
11°south is a travel mini-mag and website established by Vanguard Media. rosanne bersten was launch editor, establishing the format, liaising with the art director, commissioning the indigenous illustrator whose iconic art was used throughout, commissioning all articles, editing, and writing.
These are the primary articles she wrote:
Golan Levin and Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) in conversation with Rosanne Bersten, Linz, Austria.
In this transcript:
[2: collaboration and creativity ]
[3: music and the avant-garde ]
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