Bits exist to be copied / LIFT Talks
Through Oriol Miralbell’s blog I just stumbled over this conference talk. Maybe the headline sounded familiar to you? Right, it’s Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights Management, here filmed at LIFT ‘06. As always it’s a great talk.
(update: I removed the embedded video because it automatically started to play. Please click here to watch Cory [...]
Hobnox: Slick new player. (May work.)
Hobnox, an up-and-coming community site for artists, has quite a few assets. One of them is an audio tool WIRED loves. Another one, which I’d like to focus on here, is a video streaming tool.
This is some really interesting piece of software right there. Without knowing anything about the technical background, I have to [...]
Widgets Are Your Friend
Tony Hirst, author of this neat RSS manifesto and edupunk extraordinaire, produced this little gem of a pro-remix, pro-sharing, pro-widget rant:
[embed] changes everything
we don’t care
where it came from
if it’s good enough
for government business
salvation
but can you be RSS’d
let someone else make it PORTABLE
WIDGETS are your friend
(via Brian Lamb)
Video wrap-up from re:publica 08
Just noticed that kosmar has cut a neat time warp video from re:publica 08, featuring the whole crowd. Thanks, Kosmar!
Re:publica 08 #4 (Wrap-up)
So re:publica 08 is over, it’s the week after and things are back to normal. I’m only posting this just now since my weekend pretty much went into moving to a new apartment, but now that I’ve settled in, I’m back on a more regular schedule after after a trip to New York and San [...]
Re:publica 08 #2
Today is day 3 of re:publica 08, the last day of this year’s installment of this conference. Re:publica is the biggest and most important blogger & social media conference in Germany, organized largely by the Newthinking Team (i.e. the net activists whose most prominent member is probably Markus Beckedahl, author of Netzpolitik.org. Thanks Markus, and [...]
Twitter In Plain English
Lee LeFever has struck again: This time, he explains Twitter In Plain English:
If you’re not familiar with the format, make sure to check out the other installments of The CommonCraft Show - so far, they’ve failed to disappoint, ever. It’s just great stuff.
(If you speak German, there’s also a quite funny take on Twitter on [...]
Video: Don’t Feed The Troll
The basics of online etiquette, explained in a neat 8bit video.
How To Behave On An Internet Forum
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The Long Tail, explained in a brief video
This video is admittedly somewhat old. On the other hand, a great idea well visualized is always worth noting, and so I’ll do: This super brief video (less than 1:30!) explains Chris Anderson’s idea of the Long Tail. It’s actually a promo video for just that book. Why aren’t more promo videos as good and [...]
US Writer’s Guild still on strike…
… and I don’t quite know what to make of the fact that I care more about the strike of entertainers a few thousand kilometers away than about a strike of the whole train system in this country here. Oh well, so be it.
(It will not come as a surprise that I support the [...]