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Digital/Social Media

Content vs. Communication

May 27, 2008

Mike Masnick has an interesting post on Techdirt today, reporting on Google’s recently filed response to the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube. In a nutshell, Google’s response is that a) it’s doing nothing wrong and taking all measures to remove copyrighted material and b) a threat to sharing on the internet is a threat to [...]

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Nice Goin’ Netflix

May 22, 2008

On Tuesday of this week, in an attempt to out-Apple Apple, Netflix announced that they are offering a $99 set-top box with the uninspired-but-functional name of “The Netflix Player”. The device, manufactured by Roku, is similar to AppleTV in that it hooks to your television and allows you to download movies and [...]

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The Erosion of Fair Use

May 16, 2008

This morning at work, someone passed around an article from PC Magazine online about Sumner Redstone’s attitudes and opinions towards file-sharing on the internet. The article talks about SR’s keynote speech to the Seoul Digital Forum in Korea last week, wherein he made his stance clear that all file-sharing – including short [...]

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Clay Shirky’s Keynote at Web 2.0

April 27, 2008

I had the privilege of seeing this live in San Francisco on Wednesday afternoon. Clay is an amazing speaker has an uncanny ability to get right to the point. “Looking for the Mouse” is my new all time fave metaphor for how the passive TV audience is finally waking up. Watch the [...]

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New Media Douchebags

November 21, 2007

How to blog, Twitter, podcast, poke, write on Facebook walls and become a new media douchebag.

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