An interesting thing happened at a conference I was attending last week. The were three speakers giving talks to all the attendants (c:a 300 people). First up was the minister of communication (unexciting but well formulated explaining new broadband policy), the was James Boyle discussing Cultural Agoraphobia (an excellent presentation on the public domain). Finally [...]

In the recent issue of Research Information: October/November 2009 David Stuart writes an article entitled Web 2.0 fails to excite today’s researchers. The basic premise of the article is that researchers within academia are not interesting in adopting web2.0 technologies. It is hard to imagine a group more suited to the opportunities of Web 2.0 [...]

Us Now is a documentary film that explores the ways in which web2.0 technologies are changing the way in which we interact and thus changing the fundamental roots of society. It’s “A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet”. In a world in which information is like air, what happens [...]

I always think its a good idea to be in Barcelona. But unfortunately I will not be there this weekend. But for those of you who are in the area this coming weekend, you should seriously consider attending the Free Culture Forum: Across the planet, people are recognizing the need for an international space to [...]

Ryan Calo over at the Standford Center for Internet and Society (is this the new Berkman?) is asking some very interesting questions about the legal issues of web2.0 An Australian court rules that a mortgage company can issue notice of a lien over Facebook. A court in the UK permits an injunction to be served [...]

In 2006 Warner Media Group became the first major media company to form a strategic relationship with YouTube. They launched a business model based on user-generated content. It looked really good. But… The arrangement with YouTube required that royalties be paid based on the number of views that videos featuring music from WMG artists received. [...]

The many uses of twitter This one is from Scott Adams

- An interesting social media strategy framework from www.athgroup.com (via futuramb)

Wikipedia is planning to add a feature called “flagged revisions” which will fundamentally alter the basic philosophy of WIkipedia. The plan will effect the articles of now living people and will require trusted voluntary Wikipedia editors to accept changes made to any article. Prior to acceptance the changes will not be visible. The New York [...]

Nothing surprising that academia studies the effects of Wikipedia on everything from online collaboration to coffee making (ok so the latter is an exaggeration, maybe) but it was very nice to see that Wikipedia has a page that collects academic research on Wikipedia. Now that I think about it – it seems obvious that Wikipedia [...]