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becky.hogge@opendemocracy.net's blogBecky HoggeoD aren't the only ones covering the iSummit. Techno Llama, aka Andres from Creative Commons Scotland, and Cris Dias (for thos of you who can read Portugese) are also blogging. And the iCommons peeps have a great media page too.24 - 06 - 06
Becky Hogge I'm sat in the enterprise commons session, hosted by openbusiness, and the gloves are off. From warm, cosy ideas about sharing and freedoms and stuff, we're now in the land of markets and profit. I feel weirdly at home. Becky HoggeJamie Boyle, a Creative Commons board member and professor at Duke law school, opened todays proceeding with a rousing speech pointing out the mistakes people make when thinking about the digital commons.24 - 06 - 06
Becky HoggeNathaniel Stern is the iSummit's artist in residence, and, unsurprisingly, his photos are much better than mine. This one of Lessig and Joi Ito captures the energy of the first session - the local press were all over the panel, with lights blaring. Who would have though copyright could be so rock and roll?
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Becky HoggeNow Creative Commons has got so big, it seems like they're having a brand problem. To solve this, they've created CC international, which focuses on "porting" the licences to other legal jurisdictions, and iCommons, which "spreads the message" of open content. Becky HoggeWe're having a bit of trouble uploading photos to the blog right now, but I'm uploading all my photos onto Flickr. There's a nice little group of photos tagged iSummit from other delegates too. 23 - 06 - 06
Becky HoggeEven though, as he said at the beginning of his talk just now, Larry Lessig is not accustomed to speaking for just fifteen minutes, he managed to cram in quite a lot.23 - 06 - 06
Becky HoggeThe iCommons summit is about to start. Already I have bumped into some familiar faces from the UK and beyond: Becky HoggeRegular readers of openDemocracy will have noticed that the site has been underperforming recently. This has been frustrating both to us at oD and to you, our readers and supporters. The explanation lies in our success: over the past year, openDemocracy's readership has expanded so fast that we have outgrown our Internet Service Provider and we are now moving to a new provider. The good news is that soon the website will be faster and smoother to use. The drawback is that at some point next week, while we make the transition, we will be unable to publish new material for 24 hours. Everything will still be readable, but there will be an eerie pause in the publishing cycle. We hope you won't mind waiting an extra day for our latest articles to appear. Thanks for your patience while we make the move. We are grateful to all our readers and supporters for their patience and we look forward to continuing our growth and development and offering an even more exciting openDemocracy. 21 - 04 - 06
Becky HoggeExcellent comment in today's UK Guardian on the forthcoming elections in Belarus...10 - 03 - 06
Becky HoggeI got to do my first radio appearance yesterday, after Google's announcement that it would conform to Chinese censorship laws and host servers in China for its new google.cn service. You can listen to it here, courtesy of the BBC, until 1 Feb. Becky HoggeGiven my views (as expressed here on openDemocracy at the opening of last year's World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis) I was surprised to learn from Paul Weyrich this morning that according to the president of America's Survival Cliff Kincaid I am in fact working for an organisation which "advocates granting the UN control over the Internet to help this scandal-ridden organisation regain its prestige throughout the world". Read the rest of this post...06 - 01 - 06
Becky HoggeTim Harford wrote an excellent piece for openDemocracy earlier this year on Thomas Schelling - winner of the so-called "Nobel prize for economics" - and his game theory. I read his columns in the UK Financial Times regularly, but only today took a look at his blog, after a recommendation from another blogger mate of mine last week. Read the rest of this post...15 - 12 - 05
Becky HoggeI love waking up to the sound of openDemocracy contributors in the morning. Gisela Stuart and John Palmer were on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning, continuing the debate they started on oD over the European Union and democracy. Listen here. It's a streamed audio file - you get a nice report first, followed by Stuart & Palmer joining other guests to mull it over 14 - 12 - 05
Becky HoggeIf Silvio Berlusconi's triumph in last month's Bad Democracy poll was startling, check out how far Australia's PM, John Howard, is leading this month. Want to know why? Read this synopsis from The Age of Howard's year in Aussie politics for clues... 12 - 12 - 05
Becky HoggeWake up Arezoo (Bidar Sho Arezoo) Sunday 23 October, 21:00, ICA Before the film starts, director Kianoosh Ayyari gets up to say a few words. A woman stands next to him translating from Persian, but I get the feeling she is leaving a lot unsaid. The film does not contain any "real" footage of December 2003's Bam earthquake, says Ayyari. Nevertheless, hardly any of the charaters are played by professional actors, and the film was shot just a few days after the earthquake, using Bam, then 70% destroyed, as a backdrop. Read the rest of this post...28 - 10 - 05
Becky HoggeThere's a great piece in the UK Guardian today profiling Gilberto Gil, dissident, musician, and now minister of culture for Brazil. He is a huge supporter of the Creative Commons, and the profile captures what's so great about all the Brazilian culture and intellectual property issues that make the country stand out as a citizen of the twenty-first century. Meanwhile Britain, still hopelessly stranded in the twentieth, took one step further into the future with the launch of the Royal Society of the Art's Intellectual Property (IP) charter. John Naughton was there. Read the rest of this post...14 - 10 - 05
Becky HoggeLater today, openDemocracy will publish a topical analysis by experienced Independent journalist Jan McGirk of two southeast Asian fracture zones where a combination of ruthless political violence, extreme social problems, cultural and religious tensions, and problematic security policy is posing major problems to Thailand's and Indonesia's democratic development...
Becky HoggeHold the frontpage - the US and the EU can't agree who should run the Internet. Perhaps they should take a leaf out of Bill Thompson's book (or should that be a module out of his database?) and let the people do it. Whatever happens, it willl make November's WSIS conference all the more crucial. As both Bill and Andrew Chadwick note, these divisions have been rumbling along in the background for some time. 30 - 09 - 05
Becky HoggeJust to let our email subscribers know, we're having technical trouble with our email sending software this week, and we haven't been able to send yesterday's email. In the meantime, if you're missing your biweekly contact with us, you can view the email here. The software should be back in business soon. But now's as good a time as any to subscribe to our RSS feed - which brings daily updates from openDemocracy straight to your desktop. You can find out more here. 30 - 09 - 05
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