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Some excellent music economics futurology from Crosbie.

A skeleton at the music collecting society feast. (I personally believe that voluntary reform can bear on unreformed projects and societies, so it is still a net positive.)

“We study the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society”

“mass user-driven innovation is reshaping organizations, with users becoming increasingly involved as co-creators of products and services”

“We-Think: the power of mass creativity is about what the rise of the likes of Wikipedia and Youtube, Linux and Craigslist means for the way we organise ourselves, not just in digital businesses but in schools and hospitals, cities and mainstream corporat

“Every single Windows XP and Vista installation — except possibly those with volume license keys — is being marked as counterfeit”

An intelligent and progressive anti-war and pro-civil-liberties blog.

“This project enables members of Buma/Stemra to use the 3 non-commercial CC licenses for non-commercial distribution of their works. It also allows Dutch composers and lyricists who already use the CC NonCommercial license to join Buma/Stemra and have the

“From interaction, to engagement, to participation, to conversation to affinity to community? What would that look like?”

The new and improved furtherfield (new review on there from me soon 😉 ).

The ironised licence images meme continues to spread.

The weblog post of Matt’s image, along with the SVG.

“On Friday 7th September, the dad will finally be revealed as the Joneses' adventure draws to a close. We need you to tell us who you think the father is. It could be anybody! So post a response in the forum and let’s hear who you think the daddy is!”

“The reactions are in from YouTube users about the addition of video ads, and it's a wholly negative response. Part of the issue is that the YouTube blog tried to spin this as a way of putting users in control”

“NASA has chosen the Internet Archive to build a giant, free, online collection of still and moving images.”

Record the following script in your best Austrian accent and send it to WRTJ…

“The company may end up benefiting from discoveries of new uses in addition to benefiting from being a brand that opened up the conversation with its users. “

“why doesn't Adobe open source their creative suite?” I think this is the only thing that will prevent MS wiping them out.

“”Ford have put up all the money,” says Normal. “Yes, she drives a Ford S-Max, but I’ve got to say we’ve had no instructions from Ford to feature the car.””

“We decided to go back to one of the co-originators of the term and ask how he sees the development of the idea he seeded.”

The owner of the Web 2.0 trademark on why Eben should take more notice of data freedom.

“If Dawn and Ian returned to Britain, would you like to volunteer your home / workplace / shed for them to film in?”

Want to be the voice of a Jones? Join in here. “At the moment it’s just a list of a few possible situations, so get stuck in and – by next week – we’ll all have chiselled it into a script.”

“I get particular pleasure when I map an area that no other map shows. Here’s a comparison of OSM and Google Maps, you’ll find a similar amount of coverage in Multimap, Streetmap, A-Z and others”

“There appear to be several critical new features of the new XXIst Century Socialist breakthrough. We will review some of the most important” via dstfw…

““The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier,” by Alan Moore & Kevin O'Neill, will only be published in the United States due to international copyright concerns and related issues.”

“As always Brick Lane is home to the most interesting posters…”

“He tells people what they want to hear, setting up a false dichotomy between some mythical group of elite ontologists and the rag-tag uprising of mass categorization.”

How original do kids actually think mash-ups are?

Jenny Holzer’s collection of tactical maps from the liberation of Iraq.

“So the first couple of weeks the wiki novel was plagued by porn, now it’s plagued by silliness, especially of the banal banana variety.”

Get the episodes easily.

“Heya, here are my slides from OSCON called Refining Copyright with CC”

Elisp code to insert DEFCLASS forms into the buffer. Muy kewl.

“Several months ago, I bought an episode of Star Trek on Google Video, just out of curiosity to see how it worked. Today I got an email letting me know my videos would stop working in five days.”