Around about the end of last year, all the big shit web 2.0 blogs started to pull together their prediction list for 2010. I was…
David Bollier’s Viral spiral : how the commoners built a digital republic of their own is a very good book with a horrible title. While…
K’s note: TLF is neither a journalism blog or a Chicago placeblog, but the issues of the online content and media economics are relevant here,…
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, is the highly recommended third book by Laurence Lessig, focusing on why and how copyright…
While we can’t make it to every great conference held at MIT by the cutting-edge Comparative Media Studies program, they have put on another great…
I was going to post information about my presentation at WIPIP, but Rebecca Tushnet’s liveblogging summary has beat me to it. So read her summary,…
I attended a very interesting lecture “Social Networks and the Good Society” presented at Northwestern University by Cass Sunstein, Siva Vaidhyanathan, and Eszter Hargittai. While…
There is no better example of the political economy of the present copyright system than a recent detailed analysis of the very-likely public domain status…
The ownership issues involving Superman have always been contentious but not factually disputed — two teenagers created Superman and then sold their rights for a…
Dan Gillmor on the Center for Citizen Media blog writes about the good and bad about online group-based participation. The good happens when community is…