Found some interesting stuff while poking around online tonight. Brian Solis, The Definitive Guide to Social Media Releases and Steve Kayser’s comment on it. Jeremiah Owyang, How Brands Will Use FriendFeed Richard MacManus, Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who’s Doing It? Sarah Perez, The Future of Blogging Revealed (on lifestreaming) Was just able to skim [...]
Archive | October, 2008
Hugh McGuire: Books Versus Ebooks
Hugh has a great post on books versus ebooks. Well worth the read. It also includes a list of places you can get free ebooks. A teaser: Reading an ebooks is just “another way” to be reading, it’s not necessarily a replacement of a hard copy of a book. After all, I prefer to talk [...]
For my American friends: the Elite Escape Plan
Sent to me today by a friend in the United States. Gotta love a man with a Plan B.
Jim Jarmush: Nothing is original
Before I share my thoughts on RIP: A Remix Manifesto, I want to pass on this quote that some lovely person posted on the Boing Boing post discussing it. It’s Jim Jarmusch‘s fifth rule of film-making: Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, [...]
RiP: A remix manifesto
Thanks to Patrick (once again), I scored a ticket to the premiere of Brett Gaylor‘s new film: RiP: A remix manifesto. I learned about the film on Véro’s blog a few weeks ago and really wanted to see it. Lately I’ve been thinking more and more about things open, creative commons, and remix (read/write) culture. [...]
Jesse Dylan + Creative Commons
This three-minute film by Jessie Dylan is a wonderful introduction to Creative Commons. Via Lawrence Lessig‘s blog. He rocks.
Lydia Lunch at the Pop Montreal Symposium
I first learned about Lunch from Angry Women, a book I bought in the early 1990s. In it I met Diamanda Galas, Avital Ronell, Annie Sprinkle, Sapphire, and Susie Bright, among others, who opened to me whole new world of ideas and expanded my sense of what is possible.