{"id":514,"date":"2008-11-12T09:45:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2008-11-10T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T20:22:49","slug":"brendan-mccollam-without-a-traceroute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/brendan-mccollam-without-a-traceroute\/","title":{"rendered":"Brendan McCollam &#8211; Without A Traceroute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan McCollam [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.withoutatrace.com\">http:\/\/www.withoutatraceroute.com\/<\/a>] is a 2008-2009 Watson Fellow [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.watsonfellowship.org\">www.watsonfellowship.org<\/a>]. Here are my notes at his <a href=\"http:\/\/haip.cc\/\">Haip 2008<\/a>, lecture &#8211; Without A Traceroute &#8211; Traveling the world hanging out with hackers<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\">\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/35034345972@N01\/3016495910\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kiberpipa in Slovenia\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3282\/3016495910_9dac0300df_m.jpg\" alt=\"Kiberpipa in Slovenia\" width=\"240\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by ekai via Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>What is the Watson Fellowship?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Basically, you make up some crazy project that you\u2019re really interested in, and they give you $28,000 to do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Examples of Watson projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spanish sports slang in South America<\/li>\n<li>Evolution of outrigger canoes in Polynesia<\/li>\n<li>The effect of four ant species\u2019 behavior<\/li>\n<li>The culture of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ultimate (sport)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultimate_%28sport%29\">ultimate frisbee<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cool physical hacking places he visited:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PUSCII, Utrecht, Netherlands &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/puscii.squat.net\">http:\/\/puscii.squat.net<\/a><\/li>\n<li>EU Data Retention Conference, Budapest<\/li>\n<li>Italian Hackmeeting, Palermo, Italiy &#8211; Ask 191<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/noblogs.org\/\">http:\/\/noblogs.org\/<\/a> &#8211; blog hosting provider for lots of activist blogs in Italy<\/li>\n<li>C-Base, Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n<li>Kiberpipa, Ljubljana, Slovenia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\">\n<figure style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Hack_InSoc_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hack album cover\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/2\/2d\/Hack_InSoc_cover.jpg\/202px-Hack_InSoc_cover.jpg\" alt=\"Hack album cover\" width=\"202\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>The types of people he met<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pure\/\u2019true\u2019 hackers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Concerned with technology for its own sake<\/li>\n<li>Generally less-political<\/li>\n<li>Intuitive understand of \u201chack value\u201d without the need for application<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tech Activists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThat\u2019s great, but how does this bring about the revolution?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Generally way more paranoid and harder to get in touch with<\/li>\n<li>Tend to be narrowly focused: security, communication, organization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-img zemanta-action-dragged\">\n<figure style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/35034345972@N01\/3015666273\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Kiberpipa in Slovenia\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3245\/3015666273_188d4bc761_m.jpg\" alt=\"Kiberpipa in Slovenia\" width=\"240\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by ekai via Flickr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Artists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Also concerned with application of technology<\/li>\n<li>Generally the easiest group to get in touch with<\/li>\n<li>Usually are trying to say something, to communicate an idea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Future<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Something along the lines of Croatia, Poland, France, back to Berlin, then Argentina, Chile, Mexico and maybe Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s looking for ideas for his future travels, so get in touch via his blog &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.withoutatraceroute.com\/\">http:\/\/www.withoutatraceroute.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/afa128dd-19af-4da6-af67-1e42e6df2c4c\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=afa128dd-19af-4da6-af67-1e42e6df2c4c\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan McCollam [http:\/\/www.withoutatraceroute.com\/] is a 2008-2009 Watson Fellow [www.watsonfellowship.org]. Here are my notes at his Haip 2008, lecture &#8211; Without A Traceroute &#8211; Traveling the world hanging out with hackers What is the Watson Fellowship? \u00a0 Basically, you make up some crazy project that you\u2019re really interested in, and they give you $28,000 to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[528,529],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","tag-crazy-project","tag-haip08"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}