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What is property, and who decides it? Is your music yours?
I received a letter yesterday from Michael Robertson, a friend of mine and founder of MP3tunes. His company’s mission is…
Writing & Ideas
Two decades of thinking, in order.
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Holding the inaugural Ibn-Khaldun lecture on Al-Andalus
The birth of new social organizations in online-worlds is a great interest of mine, andI was delighted and honored when…
Streaming live in a few hours from the OpenSpime Drinklink
I will be streaming live from the OpenSpime Drinklink in four hours (8PM CET, 11AM PST) on the OpenSpime channel…
Come to the OpenSpime Drink-Link @bastard.it!
Do you want to experiment with spimes, have a first look at the preliminary OpenSpime architecture? Are you a hardware…
Online worlds vs. Social Networks
photo by L*u*z*a* My friend Roo is going to moderate a panel today at the Virtual Worlds 2008 conference in…
Nobel winning game theorists on change
The mathematical field of game theory, explored by John Von Neumann in the ’40s, and broadened by John Nash in…
One click too many: hail to the sysadmin and the scrupolous commenter both!
Imagine the nightmare scenario: your blog is doing ok, but you know it needs a total refresh for many, many…
Why is Creative Commons great? My Flickr reuse stories
Creative Commons is a framework for easily labeling your creations with licenses that grant automatically rights which are broader than…
Transcript of my talk at Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon
Here is the transcript of my talk at Sophrosyne’s Saturday Salon from yesterday, entitled “The New Renaissance”. It is fairly…