Every couple of years, there is a pop song that hits American culture with a boom, touching a musical creativity nerve center, leading to multiple…
The best thing about this book is the title. Seriously, who wouldn’t want to learn about how to stop parasites? Especially when they are digital!…
Until recently, Clay Shirky was best known as the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. The book was widely praised…
[youtube_sc url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOS43N8tAyI”] At what point is copying homage (as a way of honoring and being respectful of the original) even through direct copying? transformative (in…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEpj9w1yz64] On this blog, we write often about the value of fan-created works, about how fans use their creativity, using works created and owned by…
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…
Greg Kot’s Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music is a must-read for those interested in how economics combined with listener actions have led the…
Due to the difficult line determining what is commercial and non-commercial use of copyrighted materials, Creative Commons has recently completed a study regarding this issue…
The paradox is to wield Che in an attack on [capitalism], its critics must participate in it. They engage in the act of consuming Che….
[blip.tv ?posts_id=2091622&dest=-1] The Center for Social Media just released the above video, Remix Culture: Fair Use Is Your Friend, to help illustrate the Code of…