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2 jam packed days of technology talks

Tags:
• creative commons
• django
• facebook
• gears
• google
• merb
• microformats
• mozilla
• opensocial
• OpenSource
• openweb
• PHP
• Rails
• ria
• semantic
• ubuntu
• Web
• xml
• xul

About a month ago I went on the Leo Laporte show to discuss Creative Commons. Below is the video (holy crap it's already been watched online 1,600+ times!) . Since then I've also recorded sessions on Bryght and Facebook Apps but they haven't aired yet. I'll post them here when they do. Tomorrow I'm going back on the show (twice) to talk about 1) Social Software and Online Communities and 2) Protecting Your Privacy Online.

Posting this is a couple weeks overdue but I'm trying to play catchup and get my digital houses in order before embarking on Bryght World Tour 2007.




Also (Mom) here's a couple pics of me on the Lab with Leo set.

Richard Patton asked about Creative Commons in relation to the Attribution License I used for Bryght's screencasts. What it is and why and how should you use it? Check out the definitive info over at the Creative Commons web site and this explanatory Creative Commons cartoon for a nice illustration of the licenses, but here's my take on it.

Imagine a world where everything you create and others create was locked down so you couldn't remix it and riff on it without paying licensing fees.

That's not a world I want to live in.

Fortunately we can do something about it.

We can put the stuff we create out there with a license that allows others to re-use and remix it. We can create the commons ourselves by putting it in the public domain or by putting a Creative Commons license on the stuff (e.g. text, audio, video, blogposts, photos, etc. Software licenses are different for reasons which I won't cover here; Drupal is licensed using the GPL).

This weekend I had the pleasure of giving a talk on the future (as well as the history) of music distribution and recording technology for the Northern Voice conference. I said I’d put my slides on line, so here they are, attached to the bottom of this post.

I also collected a bunch of links on del.icio.us when I was doing some research, and you can see those here>>.

Consider all materials Creative Commons, and thanks to those who could make it down for the talk!

[Cross posted from Mixed Content, my personal site, where you can also find a massive Quicktime version]

This weekend I had the pleasure of giving a talk on the future (as well as the history) of music distribution and recording technology for the Northern Voice conference. I said I’d put my slides on line, so here they are, attached to the bottom of this post.

I also collected a bunch of links on del.icio.us when I was doing some research, and you can see those here>>.

Consider all materials Creative Commons, and thanks to those who could make it down for the talk!

[Cross posted from Mixed Content, my personal site, where you can also find a massive Quicktime version]