In 1938, seventy years ago on the night before Hallowe’en, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre On The Air took the Columbia Broadcasting System and a large part of America on a radio journey that entertained, terrified and educated everyone.
Pull up a chair, turn the lights down low, and have a listen:

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The broadcast, adapted from [...]

Continuing with the theme of “make your own online art” we present to you Hey Sarah Palin, a sing-along music video with some poignant Canadian content. So clear your throats, break into song and be sure to share with your friends.

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Make up the guest room, honey - we just might have some visitors.
Cheers.
Thanks, Kathy!

There’s a fella named Noah K who has achieved a level of internet fame by posting a video comprised of single photographs of himself - taken every day. It is a work in progress and, like the Where The Hell Is Matt? video, creates a nuanced aggregation of moments in time, aided and abetted [...]

I found this over at BoingBoing. If you remember those Budweiser commercials where various characters end up hollering “Wassup!” at each other you’ll appreciate this.

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If you don’t know the original ads go to the BoingBoing link above and you can find a bunch from there.

Pete Seeger made an appearance on David Letterman to promote his new CD entitled: At 89.
I grew up with his music in our house - his own and with the Weavers - and I get all warm and gushy when I hear my son rambling about the house singing the same songs to himself. [...]

There’s some pretty creative shit getting done on the interwebs.

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A silly as it looks, this kind of video mash-up is going to dominate the toobs over the next year as more and more individuals, semi-pros and the pros themselves take over control of content. Poetic, didactic, religious, political, surreal, fucking funny and painfully heart-rending [...]

John Hodgman is getting a lot of coverage over on BoingBoing, where he is guest blogging, and seemingly every where else on the planet these days as he plugs his latest book, More Information Than You Requirebut since he turned me on to Don Aykroyd’s Crystal Skull vodka I figured What the hell and decided [...]

I found this over at the L.A. Times where the article gives even more details from the full episode.
40 years ago this (and more) appeared on Batman.
Geez.

Doug Lichtman, professor at UCLA School of Law, interviews Fred von Lohmann, a Senior Staff Attorney at the Electronic Freedom Foundation in this first part of the Intellectual Property Colloquium.
It’s a pretty wide ranging and, at times, intellectually challenging discourse on the Cablevision case, third-party liability, and copyright’s struggle to simultaneously encourage authorship while leaving [...]

Jeff Pulver, long a proponent of disruptive technologies has posted some interesting observations on The Future Of TV.
Most noteworthy was this:

As the current generation of 16-24 year olds continue to consume Television on the Net, there are mega trends emerging that will forever change the traditional TV industry and will effect the future of advertising [...]

Lawrence Lessig would do well in his mission to reform Washington and take a page from the book of Terry Tate when it comes to keeping politicians honest and in line.

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Cheers.

Brett Gaylor, documentary filmmaker and the founder of opensourcecinema.org is premiering Rip:A Remix Manifesto at Festival Du Nouveau Cinema, in Montreal on Friday Oct. 17th at 7:30 PM at the IMPERIAL.
In the film Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall [...]

I’ve been noticing references throughout Twitter this week about this new fangled thing called the Live Web. In contrast to what big media wants the net to be - (ie. television with more ads) - the live web is a seething, breathing co-existence … in real time.
Two posts to check out with respect to [...]

Lawrence Lessig posted this great short film by Jesse Dylan (who is not only Bob Dylan’s son he also created Obama’s Yes We Can video) and it examines just what Creative Commons is and why it’s important to us all.

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If you haven’t considered using Creative Commons for your works you should look into it.
Just so [...]

The more things change the more they stay the same - or so the saying goes. Here in Canada we’ve had an election that once again saddles us with a minority government that will, doubtless, attempt, again, to govern like a singular presidency. However, the message of this vote will not be lost [...]

I’ve been in conversation with friends and colleagues about Sony’s new gaming environment LittleBigPlanet and thought I’d share parts of a recent email I spewed out to my friends, Bryan and Ted, about the larger implications behind this emerging context of gaming. These thoughts also came to the forefront of my alleged mind after [...]

CORRECTION: In the first version of this post I mistakenly attributed the Superstruct to Ray Kurzweil when in fact it is the creation of The Institue For The Future - and in particular game designer and theorist Jane McGonigal, IFTF Director Kathi Vian and scenario designer Jamais Cascio.
My apologies to them all for the [...]

John Lennon’s birthday is today.
If he was still alive he’d be 68 years old - and really really pissed off.
Thankfully we had him for the short while he was here. His words from back when still resonate oh so strongly today. Stop listening to the arguing sociopaths seeking power - listen to John.

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Thank you, [...]

I remember seeing this as a kid when it first aired and thinking: “Hey, that bald guy is cool and he’s got a great voice but this whole staring at the camera thing and just saying the alphabet is really weirding me out.”
Really. I thought that sort of shit when I was a [...]