At PBS’s MediaShift blog, Mark Glaser conducted a roundtable last week on import of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video released by the Center for Social Media at American University. (I wrote about it here.) Participating were: Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University, Code of […]
Heading to the Aspen Institute
I’m flying to Aspen, Colo., early tomorrow to take part in another Aspen Institute roundtable. This one is on Cloud Computing: Implications for Social Interaction, Governance and Money. Should be geeky but interesting as hell. Too bad I missed the Dalai Lama by three days. As you might imagine, blogging will be light this week.
New report: How mobile media can serve the public good
In December I attended an Aspen Institute roundtable on civic engagement and mobile media held in San Francisco with thought leaders in the mobile space such as Jed Alpert, founder of Mobile Commons, and Katrin Verclas, head of MobileActive.org. I wrote a report about the gathering’s conclusions, and the Aspen Institute just published it as […]
ZipClip: Ding, dong, the ringtone is dead
The most interesting person I met at the Stanford Summit last week was Turkish-born Babur Ozen, whose business card says he’s the "boss" of ZipClip, which has offices in Palo Alto, Calif. Babur gave me and Valerie Cunningham a test drive of the free service. ZipClip lets you add video, images or music from the […]
Fish Phone: text a fish while shopping or dining
In the Civic Engagement on the Move report that I wrote for the Aspen Institute, I included this passage: Jed Alpert, co-founder and chief executive officer of Mobile Commons, pointed to FishMS, a text service in South Africa that was set up to help consumers choose seafood with the least adverse impact on the environment. […]