June 2012
7 posts
“The future scholar-critic who writes The History of Canting in the Twentieth...”
– From the provocative essay by Paul Fussell, “Thank God For The Atom Bomb”
May 2012
17 posts
new liars album. rad. →
on the road
Official WIPO meeting summaries are incredibly useful: “Different views were expressed in regard these issues.”
Leaving Mountain View on Caltrain, guy next to me working on Powerpoint titled “Global Online Consumer Tracking.” #therealsiliconvalley
Don't drone me, bro. →
“But some of the officials carrying out the policy are equally leery of “how easy it has become to kill someone,” one said. The U.S. is targeting al-Qaida operatives for reasons such as being heard in an intercepted conversation plotting to attack a U.S. ambassador overseas, the official said. Stateside, that conversation could trigger an investigation by the Secret Service or...
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“We’re coming up to the presidential election’s primary season....”
– Occupy, by Noam Chomsky.
“Western policymakers should rid themselves of the illusion that communism ended...”
– The Net Delusion
Dymaxion Chronofile is the most bomb-ass name of...
I went to SFMOMA on Tuesday to check out Sam Green’s (past work includes the terrific Weather Underground) new film “The Lovesong of R. Buckminster Fuller.” Well, actually I guess it’s technically not a film because there were only 2 live performances of it and it was not committed to tape. Pretty cool format actually, which I’ve never seen before. Same pulled some...
“For the first time, perhaps ever, a U.S. citizen was assassinated by the CIA, on...”
– Greenwald in Salon, at http://www.salon.com/2012/05/01/since_bin_ladens_death/singleton/
“Scholars contribute powerfully to society’s narrative over the long term, and...”
– Future of Copyright, http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2012/04/30/future-of-copyright/
December 2011
1 post
10 tips for applying for the Google Policy...
It’s that time of year again when we sift through hundreds of applications for the Google Policy Fellowship at Creative Commons. I’ve been helping with this process for the last 2 years. It’s a shame that Google is still asking applicants to list two organizations they’d like to work with. This is unfortunate because it waters down applications. Some of the strongest...
January 2011
1 post
superhumanoids
in Oakland. awesome.
December 2010
1 post
“The United States is nominally a democracy, but it’s sadly ridiculous to...”
– The Economist, In defence of WikiLeaks, 29 November 2010
November 2010
1 post
Kathleen Parker Washington Post editorial November...
“But more alarming than the apparatuses is our willingness to go lowing into the night. Incrementally, we adapt to the stripping of civil liberties until, with the passage of time and the blinkering of generational memory, we no longer remember when things were otherwise.”
July 2010
2 posts
this city
is hulking over me
Notes from Copyright Policy, Creativity &...
On Thursday I attended a symposium put on by the Patent & Trademark Office and NTIA called “Copyright Policy, Creativity & Innovation in the Internet Economy.” The symposium brought together government employees working on copyright issues, content industry types, and a few public interest advocates. The symposium was held in Washington, D.C. at the Ronald Reagan Building...
June 2010
1 post
ASCAP letter to raise money to fight free culture:...
Original letter:
Translated letter:
Dear MICHAEL,
On behalf of music industry executives everywhere, I am urging you to support ASCAP’s Legislative Fund for the Arts (ALFA).
At this moment, we are facing our biggest challenge ever. For years, we’ve sat back, as creative, innovative, and hardworking nonprofits and advocacy groups such as Creative Commons, Public Knowledge,...
April 2009
1 post
“Someone told me this the other day. I’m still thinking about it:...”
February 2009
2 posts
Grimmelmann and Vaidhyanathan Talk Google Book...
On Friday, Georgetown University hosted its Eighth Scholarly Communication Symposium. The program was titled “Google and the Future of Higher Education,” and featured James Grimmelmann, Associate Professor at New York Law School, and Siva Vaidhyanathan, Associate Professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia. Grimmelmann and Vaidhyanathan discussed the...
Authors Guild Kindle 2 Proclamation (while we're...
Here we go again. As you may have noticed, a few days ago, representatives from the Authors Guild said that the text-to-speech feature to-be-released on the new Kindle 2 is illegal.
“They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.”
...
January 2009
3 posts
Notes of note from 2009 State of the Net
I rode my bike in the freezing temperatures to the 5th State of the Net conference this past Wednesday.
The State of the Net Conference is the largest information technology policy conference in the US, attracting over 550 attendees in 2009. This year the conference framed the policy debates that will challenge the new Administration and the new Congress. This year with a new administration, the...
Notes of note from TACD Conference at Carnegie...
The TransAtlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property recently held a 2-day conference on “Patents, Copyrights and Knowledge Governance: The Next Four Years” at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C. There were a lot of interesting panels, talking a lot about copyright and patent reform, access to knowledge, and recommendations to the new...
New America Foundation "Wiki White House" Talk at...
A bunch of people gather at Google’s Washington, D.C. office yesterday to check out a great presentation called “Wiki White House,” (video available there too) put on by the New America Foundation. The panelists included Ellen Miller (Sunlight Foundation), Sascha Meinrath (New America Foundation), Mindy Finn (Mitt Romney for President), and Craig Newmark (Craigslist). The panel...
October 2008
1 post
It's on the tip of my tongue
June 2008
2 posts
Michael Wesch on "Anthropology of YouTube" at...
A couple of us from ALA and Public Knowledge attended the “Anthropology of YouTube” event at the Library of Congress today. I didn’t realize beforehand who was presenting, but when we arrived, I found out that Michael Wesch was the slated speaker. Wesch is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Kansas State University, and the directors of the Digital Ethnography Work Group....
March 2008
1 post
Stop the presses! Wikipedia not a pure democracy.
Recently, Slate ran an article titled “The Wisdom of the Chaperones: Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 democracy.” The gist of Chris Wilson’s article reveals that user-generated content sites such as Wikipedia and Digg, touted as democratic entities of collaborative knowledge production, are not really democratic at all. Wilson writes:
Social-media sites are celebrated...