Feeling silly
Name the llama shortlist
Thanks to all who sent in entries. There are three short-listed entries: Lilian Dougal Bruno The winner shall be announced shortly, I’m trying to negotiate a judge.
Games
The life of a Chinese gold farmer
(via Colin Miller) As part of my growing interest in virtual economies, here is an eye-opening look at the gold of Chinese gold farmers from Julian Dibbell, including some video footage of their virtual sweat shops (you can sort of smell that the term could be quite literal as well). Read more
Regulation
Peer to Patent live
The amazing Peer to Patent system is now live. The system is the creation of New York Law School Professor Beth Noveck, and it is an extremely interesting system of involving the online community on the review of patent claims in pending patent applications. I believe this is an interesting Read more
Conferences
iSummit in pictures
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
Conferences
Free Radio
(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
Conferences
Creative Commons movement
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
Conferences
Poker
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
Conferences
The future of the Commons
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
Creative Commons
F.U.D. from Chile
On the same day that friend and colleague Claudio Ruiz has given me an excellent t-shirt and stickers from the Creative Commons enforcement case in Chile (pictured), I have read some F.U.D. from that same country. It’s amazing how some people see CC as a fundamental challenge against proprietary models Read more
Conferences
Legal Day
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