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In a Barbie World?

I come neither to bury Barbie nor to praise her, but to acknowledge her larger cultural role, after turning fifty this year. And she has played an important role in several reported IP disputes (and many more unpublicized ones) — and likely more in the future. I think an entire intellectual property class could be [...]

What Non-Profits Could Learn From Fan Culture About Social Media

Having worked in the non-profit sector for several years, and being a fangirl all my life, I can say – seriously! – that fan culture and the non-profit world would have something in common: both often rely resource of highly motivated, passionate individuals using their time (and sometimes money) to spread the word about their [...]

Center for Social Media’s Best Practices: Now in tasty video format!

The Center for Social Media just released the above video, Remix Culture: Fair Use Is Your Friend, to help illustrate the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video, that was released in July 2008. While I’m glad that there are best practices that address the interests of other communities, having a best [...]

Patrick Swayze and the limits of Twitter as journalism

I‘m a big fan of Twitter as a tool for journalists. There’s a large and active network of staff journalists at indie magazines and major news outlets, freelancers , bloggers,  ”citizen journalists” (do people still use that term?) that communicate and distribute news via Twitter, and I think Twitter- and microblogging in general – presents [...]