Video hosting longevity experiment
Some friends have been working on a to-be-federated media hosting web application called MediaGoblin. They’re running a crowdfunding campaign to pay for more developer time. Please join me in feeding...
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“Circulations of culture” in Poland and everyland
My comments on/included in The Circulations of Culture. On Social Distribution of Content. (PDF), an English translation of Obiegi kultury. Społeczna cyrkulacja treści. Thanks to researcher Alek...
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Economics and The Wealth of the Commons Conference
The Wealth of the Commons: A world beyond market & state is finally available online in its entirety. I’ll post a review in the fullness of time, but for now I recommend reading the 73 essays in...
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Exit skype loyalty
Why Doesn’t Skype Include Stronger Protections Against Eavesdropping? At the EFF blog Seth Schoen speculates that Microsoft could be under continuous secret court orders which could possibly be...
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Economics and the Commons Conference [knowledge stream] report
Economics and the Common(s): From Seed Form to Core Paradigm. A report on an international conference on the future of the commons (pdf) by David Bollier. Section on the knowledge stream (which I...
View Article“I would love it if all patents evaporated” (WebRTC)
I’ve been following WebRTC (Real Time Communications) because (1) it is probably the most significant addition to the web in terms of enabling a new class of applications at least since the...
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Sleepwalking past Freedom’s Commons, or how peer production could increase...
2007: The most interesting parts of Yochai Benkler‘s The Wealth of Networks concern how peer production facilitates liberal values. I’ll blog a review in the fullness of time. In lieu of that which may...
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Keep Fighting Forward
Today is the day to mass call for regulation of mass surveillance. I did, please do it too. I’m still underwhelmed by the rearguard nature of such actions, wonder how long they continue to be effective...
View ArticleInnovation Policy in a World With Less Scarcity
Mark Lemley’s new paper IP in a World Without Scarcity provides good overviews of the case “that on the Internet, we increasingly get creativity in spite of, rather than because of, IP law” — the...
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Notes for panel The API Copyright Emergency: What’s Next? today at API Con SF. The “emergency” is the recent decision in Oracle v. Google, which I don’t discuss directly below, though I did riff on the...
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