If you have watched television since February, especially sports programming, then you have likely seen at least one of the Old Spice commercials, The Man…
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…
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…
Like a lot of geeky people, I spent much of Inauguration Day (and night) online, riveted to the live streaming feed on CNN and also…
Arguably, Obama is the first nerd president. (Considering that Thomas Jefferson’s books were the basis of the Library of Congress, my vote is for second…
[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…
One of our areas of focus this year is the effective use of social media / social networking tools. At this point, we are planning…
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,…
The Center for Social Media has posted their Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video (16 page PDF Report). This Report is…
If you are trapped in the modality of “you are such a sell-out!” then two of the biggest YouTube success stories, Chocolate Rain and OK…