Beginning today, and for the next two weeks, the venerable pioneering online community the WELL will be bandying about the ideas set out in my book Darknet about digital rights, fair use, Hollywood and emerging forms of grassroots media. They do this with authors’ books about twice a month. It’s taking place here — and […]
Darknet
Why Hollywood is terrified of innovation
Jason Silverman in today’s Wired News: Darknet Casts Hollywood as Heavy. Excerpt: Hollywood is terrified of your computer. Movie industry bigwigs know your PC can help you create your own movies, or, worse, copy and tweak theirs. So, like a jealous lover, the entertainment industry worries: Is your computer offering you the fulfillment we can’t? […]
Warren Lieberfarb: Hollywood’s visionary outcast
I’m having fun publishing text works as HTML on Ourmedia. Last week it was “Your locked-down digital future” (Ourmedia page | direct link to file on the Internet Archive). Today, it’s “Hollywood’s visionary outcast” (Ourmedia page | direct link to file on Internet Archive). It’s from my interview with Warren Lieberfarb (above), the father of […]
Eleanor’s first stint as a citizen journalist
I’ve been doing a bit of citizen journalism lately (Dan Gillmor’s trying to shake out the Drupal bugs at Bayosphere; so far, my video there hasn’t shown up). Today, the tables are turned. Citizen journalist Eleanor Kruszewski, an incredibly smart technologist who just began a new job at Yahoo!, interviewed me at the Palace Hotel […]
From Boston to NYC
I’ve begun my personal Summer of Madness tour a bit early, considering that we still have a week left of spring. But there’s no question about the Madness part. This morning at Harvard Law, Molly Krause filled me in on the exciting H2O playlist project that will soon be unveiled by the Berkman Center for […]