Archive for March, 2008

One click too many: hail to the sysadmin and the scrupolous commenter both!

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Imagine the nightmare scenario: your blog is doing ok, but you know it needs a total refresh for many, many reasons. You decide to do it, and find the right team, but before they can begin, the machine, which happens to be a virtual machine sitting on some hardware, needs ...

Why is Creative Commons great? My Flickr reuse stories

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Creative Commons is a framework for easily labeling your creations with licenses that grant automatically rights which are broader than the ones under the traditional 'All rights reserved' copyright model. It doesn't mean that you are giving away or giving up your copyright, but that who wants to use your ...

Transcript of my talk at Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Here is the transcript of my talk at Sophrosyne's Saturday Salon from yesterday, entitled "The New Renaissance". It is fairly long: you can find the full text on Scribd. [13:04] Sophrosyne Stenvaag: Hey everybody, welcome - we'll be starting in a few minutes - still lots of people coming in - ...

Speaking at ‘Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon’: “The New Renaissance”

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Tomorrow I will be speaking at Extropia Core at 1PM PST, invited by Sophrosyne Stenvaag for her 'Saturday Salon' conversations. The title of my speech is going to be "The New Renaissance"

Larry Lessig on Barack Obama and the Architecture of Participation

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

At ETech last week in San Diego I had the privilege to sit down with Larry Lessig after his keynote, and chat about his endorsement of Barack Obama, why he thinks he will be a great President, and about the best use of technology to enhance active participation in the ...

Lecture at CSIM: “A New Metaphor For The Digital Divide”

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Mixed reality enters the time axis, as I am holding a lecture at the California School of International Management while being physically there, after having held a seminar remotely, which apparently they liked! This time we are going to talk about "A New Metaphor For The Digital Divide". The lecture will ...

ETech presentation on OpenSpime

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Here is the video of the presentation I gave at ETech about OpenSpime: and also the slides that were used: | View | Upload your own