I’m off to Gainesville, Florida, tomorrow morning (taking BART to SFO Airport at 4:14 am — ugh) for three days, so won’t be checking email and will only sporadically update this blog. Here’s the event: The Third Annual Symposium on Converged Journalism at the University of Florida. Conference details (Flash required). When: Thursday, April 1, […]
My review of Lessig’s ‘Free Culture’
When future generations look back at this unsettled era in which we’re transitioning from an analog to a digital society, Larry Lessig‘s works will provide a treasure trove. In his first book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, dark forces were gathering, seeking ways to use code as a sort of privatized law to hem […]
A day at the bookstore
I haven’t had time to do much of anything while writing this book on the digital media revolution, so I’m behind on my reading. I’ll be flying to Florida Wednesday for a journalism symposium, so I headed to Borders yesterday to pick up some books. Here’s my shopping list, and here’s what they had in. […]
Students ask about the secrets of blogging
Kynn Bartlett, chief technologist for Idyll Mountain and author of CSS in 24 Hours, among many other things, invited the students taking his Blogging Basics Online Course to ask me some questions. So here goes: What’s your blog about? Who is the audience? I began a blog, New Media Musings, in May 2001, and it’s […]
Losing control of your TV
The wonderful and wise Simson Garfinkel (whom I met at PopTech) devotes his latest column in MIT’s Technology Review to: Losing Control of Your TV. The latest anti-piracy move will prevent you from making high-quality copies of broadcast TV programs. And the new “broadcast flag” technology enables all manner of other restrictions. Here’s the lead: […]