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Notes From the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum (Day 1)

June 26th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.
I’d like to add that I’ve recently found a highly cogent rationale/alabi for posting this raw, sloppy, first-draft-of-history note-taking in Clay Shirky’s notion of “first publish, then sort”.See? Its not just that I can’t be bothered to [...]

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Notes from Clay Shirky’s Book Release @ ITP

March 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I’ve started to post raw notes from events I attend. For more information, see the Notes Policy.
080229 Clay Shirky Book Release for Here Comes Everybody @ ITP

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Tags: books · copyfight · edu · ideas · neat! · notes · nyc · privacy · tech

Protecting Privacy With Data Promiscuity

February 11th, 2008 · No Comments

The Badness of Dave’s Paranoid Brain led him to sound the alarm: get off facebook now! Get yr email onto a small ISP! Keep your data away from big companies that hold profits or subpoena’s above their user’s interests!The concerns are valid, but the remedy doesn’t scale. Its hard enough to [...]

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Tags: copyfight · net · politics · privacy

Subway Portrait

November 29th, 2007 · No Comments

On the R train (en route to Matchupcamp) a man across the way was sketching with a brush-tip marker. Last week I’d been chastised by One Leg Chuck for filming his performance in the Bedford L station: “These are my songs, man! It’s rude to just film someone without asking!”

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Tags: copyfight · design · music · nyc · personal

What Radiohead is Doing Wrong

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Several friends (to say nothing of the Internet at large) are gushing over Radiohead’s move to abandon the traditional commercial music distribution model.
Fuck yeah!
Since there’s already plenty of congratulatory ink being spilled, let me chime in and say that I’m not too crazy about the fact that I’m compelled to pass along my credit card [...]

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Tags: copyfight · music

The Anti-EULA

August 8th, 2007 · No Comments

Reasonableagreement.org are fighting the good fight against restrictive, coercive, and legally non-binding “agreements” that our overly litigious society has seen fit to encourage.
READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this sticker] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any [...]

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