Copyright Cowboy
If you have an interest in copyright law and have not already watched Rip!: A remix manifesto, you need to check it out. The director’s politics are a bit heavy handed but the point is eye opening: copyright law has not always been what copyright law is today. Using mash-up music artist Girl Talk as […]
Anonymity tested – Wikileaks under fire
Gone are the days of uncontested truth. Hegel’s thesis – antithesis – synthesis is unfolding in front of our eyes as the continued evolution of the information society unfolds. If we consider media conglomeration and state surveillance as the thesis stage of a new era of social organization, Wikileaks just might be its antithesis for […]
Editing the controversial – Wikipedia taking new steps
Wikipedia announced recently that it will make it possible for a broader swath of users to edit controversial subjects on the site whose pages are locked due to abuse and political manipulation. Generally, any reader can edit a page, but there are certain people and topics that the Wiki masterminds do not allow ‘editing’ of […]
Digital Divide Goes Deep
The digital divide debate has been going in a major way since the 1970’s. Back then it was an ideological divide on the floor of UNESCO at the United Nations. Today, it is simply a stark reality between states that are rich and states that are poor. While every new technology has a global lag […]
