At Real People Network, I have an 8-minute video interview with Stanford Prof. Lawrence Lessig.
Digital rights & copyright
War of the world views
Had a good time this afternoon speaking to a lunch gathering at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford University. I put together a half-hour slide presentation, which will be released on podcast, titled, “War of the World Views: The clash between big media and citizens media.” I had plenty of material to draw […]
Creative Commons inducts Jimmy Wales
Just got back from tonight’s Creative Commons party, at which Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales was brought aboard as a member of the nonprofit’s board. It was my first time meeting Jimmy in person, and I was thrilled to give him a copy of “Darknet” and to discuss possible collaboration down the road between the Wikimedia […]
Brewster Kahle’s fight for open access
Today’s San Jose Merc has a two-part package about Internet Archive co-founder and digital librarian visionary Brewster Kahle (I took the above photo of Brewster when the Internet Archive hosted the citizens media summit I organized on May 14, 2005): He fights for open access to the world’s digital library Dedicating his career to open […]
Archiving television — and books
At Friday’s Getting Ready for Prime Time: Online Video and the Future of Television conference in Berkeley, I grabbed Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle for this 7-minute video about the obstacles and opportunities in archiving our television heritage. Brewster’s great to listen to, as always. (Saw him Friday in Berkeley, Saturday at the Ourmedia gathering, […]