Jobs on DRM: Why wait for the major labels?
There’s been a ton of posts already on Steve Job’s open letter about DRM. At the risk of adding one more, I wanted to echo a significant point that seems to be getting lost in the celebration: what’s...
View ArticleClosed by Design?
At last year’s OSCON, one of the themes was the influence of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) on other areas – broadening the definition of “open source” to include scientific research, for...
View ArticleShould I burn my feeds?
There was a great session on Wednesday at the IMA Public Media 2007 conference on RSS, which included Rick Klau from FeedBurner. I’ve been checking them out for a while now, and trying to decide...
View ArticleManufacturing Dissent (Henry Jenkins)
(Updated again: Jenkins’ own notes on his presentation are here: part one and part two (Update: The recorded videos from the conference are now available). Beyond Broadcast 2007 kicked off with a...
View ArticleBeyond Broadcast Panels
The last two sessions I was able to see at Beyond Broadcast (I had to leave at midday) were panels. The first was on “Participatory Culture,” moderated by Jesse Walker from Reason magazine, with Kenny...
View ArticleBusiness Case for Ajax Applications
I presented this morning at the AjaxWorld Conference and Expo in New York. The slides are available here: Building a Business Case for Ajax Applications (odp – Open Document Presentation) Building a...
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SXSW Day Two – People-Powered Products
The last panel I saw on Sunday was “People-Powered Products.” It was moderated by Jason Levitt (Yahoo! Developer Network) and included: Jeremy Hogan (Lulu) Matt Rubens (Jamglue) Derek Powazek (8020...
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SXSW Day Three: Henry Jenkins, Danah Boyd
So if my blog posts from Beyond Broadcast didn’t make it clear, I’m a huge fan of Henry Jenkins’ work. Monday’s panel “Convergence Culture: A Conversation with Henry Jenkins” was simply further...
View ArticleSXSW Day Three – Open Content, Remix Culture, and the Sharing Economy
Last panel of Monday was “Open Content, Remix Culture and the Sharing Economy: Rights, Ownership and Getting Paid” – moderated by Eric Steuer of Creative Commons. (He’s also one half of the duo Meanest...
View ArticleSXSW Day Four – Open Knowledge versus Controlled Knowledge
Day four for me started with “Open Knowledge vs. Controlled Knowledge” – as though it would be difficult to determine how a SXSW crowd might come out on that contest. (Is there anyone who would say...
View ArticleState of the What?
David Sifry from Technorati has posted the latest State of the Blogosphere – except that now it is the “State of the Live Web.” He notes that, in a change from the old State of the Blogosphere reports:...
View ArticleBrands whose consumers tell the best stories, win
David Armano points on Logic + Emotion to Alain Thys‘ “I Am The Media,” a presentation given at the Marketing3 conference in the Netherlands back in November 2006. The presentation itself is available...
View ArticleCreative Commons by default
(Via Lawrence Lessig) Sony’s new competitor to YouTube, eyeVio, will license content users upload under a Creative Commons Attribution license by default. Lessig points to this article from Digital...
View ArticleObama and Creative Commons
(via Lessig Blog) comes notice that Barack Obama’s campaign posted this notice encouraging the DNC to license all Democratic presidential debates under a creative commons license: I am writing in...
View ArticleWords, Words, Words
Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words. Words. Words. - Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii I’m not normally prone to quoting Shakespeare – more of a Modernist and Americanist by (academic) training...
View ArticleAssemble Enterprise 2.0 from Open Source
Optaros this morning published a white paper I co-wrote with colleagues Bruno Von Rotz, Jeff Potts, and Dave Gynn: Assemble Enterprise 2.0 from Open Source. (It is freely available from the site, but...
View ArticleIt takes a village – hyperlocal means not going it alone
Jeff Jarvis takes the occasion of the “long-time coming closing” of backfence to talk broady about the Local Challenge: Hyperlocal will not, I firmly believe, happen at one site. It will work only via...
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Represent
I’ve been catching up with videos since the release of the Miro player public preview. (And as I’ve had some traveling time, on trains, waiting for planes, etc). Two recent videos stood out as worth...
View ArticleYochai Benkler at the Gartner Web Innovation / Open Source Summit
I spent the latter half of this week at the Gartner Web Innovation and Open Source Summits. (Officially two different conferences, but held over the same three days in the same location). Luckily,...
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Internet TV – Joost and Miro
Steve Borsch at Connect the Dots has a post today titled “Two approaches to internet TV: Joost and Miro.” I’ve left a brief comment there, but wanted to expand on it here. This isn’t just a question of...
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