I got this via Lawrence Lessig on Twitter and agreed that it was both clever and informative.
I’ll be posting a bunch of stuff over the next few weeks about some changes I’m planning here and with other sites. In the meantime – dance someplace people least expect it.
Cheers.
A follow up to my previous post on the eG8 – here’s the impromptu press conference held by those attendees (Lawrence Lessig, Susan Crawford, Jeff Jarvis at al) putting their spin on the Sarkozy government/business G8 slant on their proposed ownership and control of the interwebs.
Short strokes: “Yo, Nikki – the net is infinitely more than just a handy platform from whence you greedy geezers can continue to shill your lies and sell your shit. So go fuck yourself.”
But I paraphrase – let the better minds speak:
[EN] La société civile s’en va t’en guerre à l’ e-G8 from OWNI on Vimeo.
Lessig is great – so’s Jarvis – but be sure to catch Jérémie Zimmermann around 18:15 where he really nails what is going on with all this eG8 bullshit.
Cheers.
P.S. Found this over at BoingBoing posted by Cory Doctorow. Thanks!
This wonderful example of “kinetic typography” by Matthew Rogers uses one of Stephen Fry‘s delicious audio rants as the basis for the examination of our uses and abuses of language.
I love things like this – and similar works that combine images and code, for example the talks of Lawrence Lessig and RSAnimate – because they show our continuing evolution of our use of language as we employ a variety of visual forms, techniques and technologies to expand on our abilities to communicate ideas and emotions. The boundaries of language are no longer constrained by mere words but the words themselves are no less important.
Fascinating stuff. It also reminded me of someone I once knew – a wise young woman, alas now passed, who loved her words – and it’s just the tonic I need as I work to complete this dickens of a script I’m working on.
Cheers.
P. S. I found the video on wimp.com where they also have videos of kittens riding on Roombas – which, of course, is why the internet was invented.
I always enjoy Lawrence Lessig’s talks – this one from TEDxBoston is great.
Pass it on.
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One of a series of four talks just posted by Lawrence Lessig. Here’s how he describes this one:
Talk given at SNW 2010 about three areas of policy — broadband, cybersecurity, and copyright, and about the corruption of the process of policy making affecting each. A mix of my old concerns with one section of the new concerns.
It’s a very good primer on where the U.S. (and consequently Canada and other countries) stands in regards to how the internet is being mishandled. The other talks are equally informative and engaging.
Lessig is to U.S. issues on the internet, copyright law and government corruption as Michael Geist is for Canada. Every time either of them speak out on points of law with respect to how our governments and corporations interact with the extension of our nervous systems (ie. the internet) we should pay heed.
Cheers.
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