by Keidra Chaney A few weeks ago I was invited as a speaker to a Chicago event called Homeroom 101 where speakers give an intro…
The New York Times recently had an article on LOLcats, specifically the ICanHasCheezburger site, and I wondered, what took so long? Is it because it…
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=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…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THQutt1DbVw] Want to see the latest episodes of Inuyasha as they air? Or if feudal Japan plus magic isn’t your thing, how about the latest…
Ignoring cultural context has led to some incredibly bizarre cease-and-desist notices recently. Yet intellectual property and culture are tied together. New works are not created…
After a truly great time presenting about fan culture two years ago at MIT5: Creativity, Ownership, and Collaboration in the Digital Age, we presented at…
Uh-oh. According to Mashable, LiveJournal, of blogging’s old warhorses, is in some big financial trouble: The company has reportedly laid off 20 of 28 employees,…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5B0XItDpSM] According to today’s New York Times article, YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money, we could be making the big bucks on You Tube: One…