Here’s my iSummit in pictures (check out the iCommons Flickr stream): Not a bad place to hold a conference Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!(courtesy CreativeCommoners) So, THAT is how he does it!(courtesy Joi Ito) Snowclones are the new black(courtesy Mathias Klang) Tessi disagrees with me about the quality Read more…
(photo courtesy of Becky Hogge) One of the coolest activities I managed to do during the summit (besides annoying random people with rants about contract law) was to participate in the Free Radio broadcast. As you can see, it is a radio broadcasting outside one of the venues. I managed Read more…
A common theme running through the summit has been the question of the nature of the Creative Commons organisation. Is it a movement? And if so, what is its philosophy? Ideology? Is it political? I think that these are important questions, and while I believe clearly that this is a Read more…
Venerable (I sort of hate that word, but I don’t know how else to describe him) Harvard Professot Charlie Nesson gave an excellent talk on poker and democracy. I’m sure this will be one of those events which will be part of the many excellent talks we have been seeing Read more…
Last night Larry Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain presented what I’m sure will become a legendary session on the future of content and the future of the Commons. Jonathan Zittrain gave a thoroughly enjoyable presentation related to his work on the Web’s famous network vulnerability, and what it means for the Read more…
We’ve had some excellent discussion on the first day of the conference, which has been an unofficial start before the summit fully begins tomorrow (in other words, licence geeks get together and throw around ideas). The first session was an extremely useful description from Lucie Gibault and Paul Keller of Read more…
And the summit begins with the legal day, there will be plenty of discussion on all licensing legal topics, so today is lawyer’s day. The great thing about annual conferences is that you get to see again your friends from last year, and in the words of one of the Read more…