Larry Lessig looks at four of the key misconceptions in the debate about Google Books and copyright issues. (The comments on this post are also good reading, showing some of the complexities of the issues involved.)
I was interviewed for two podcasts in the ‘Mobile Technology in TAFE’ series, one on Lectopia & Podcasting, and the other on social software in education more broadly. If you’re interested, please have a listen. (Feedback is most welcome).
“Full-Time Intimate Community” (FTIC) … are the close group of friends (usually around 8-10 people) with whom you share presence. Most mobile youths know whether members of their FTIC are awake, at school, happy, sick, finished with their homework …
“Entertainment giant Viacom Media says it will sue online search engine Google and its video-sharing website, YouTube, for more than $US1 billion.” (Just in case you’re 1 of the 4 people online who hasn’t had this news thrust upon them yet!)
Rough transcript of Will Wright’s keynote from SXSW, looking at Spore, evolution and game narrative. Best Quote: “One of my real aspirations of this is I wanna see interstellar wars between Care Bears and Klingons.”
Chuck Olsen interviews Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, two of the creators and producers of lonelygirl15 (The talk business models more than anything, but interesting nevertheless…)