Here's an interview about the Augmented Social Network conducted by Geert Lovink for Nettime. It covers topics some folks on Rhizome might find of interest, including the representation of self in digital space, and the future of online community. - Ken


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ASN: Reinventing Social Networks
Interview with Ken Jordan
By Geert Lovink

Mid 2003 a wave of excitement over something called the Planetwork conference in San Francisco reached me. Apparently an alternative and
innovative attempt was under way to redefine the Internet, a medium so
much plagued by corporate and state control, trolls, spam and viruses.
Planetwork was founded in 1998 by Erik Davis, Jim Fournier, Elizabeth
Thompson and David Ulansey. It is a network in which activists mingle
with technologists. It