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Copyright Gets Caught in the Middle
One of the biggest impacts the internet has had on creativity and business is the expanding discussion of copyright. "Chuck Olsen":http://www.mnstories.com/archives/2006/05/negativlands_ma.html got me thinking about this when he posted this video interview with Mark Hosler of … [Read more...]
What’s My Responsibility?
I had a dream last night in which I was in a car with other adults going to a very adult event like a classical music concert. For some reason, we stopped near a school. There was a boy in the car in front of us who was hit in the head with a hard baseball. He slumped over the wheel. No one seemed … [Read more...]
Peer to Peer: we are all teachers and we are all students
It's often said how the internet is making many arenas more of an "an even playing field." Customers have more power, companies have less, in many situations. I think the transfer of power is a direct correlation to the transfer of knowledge that is taking place. And being that we are smack dab in … [Read more...]
All or Nothing is Anti-Business
I think the faster we can move away from all or nothing thinking, the faster the marketplace can be reshaped into a more equitable power relationship between buyers and sellers, and hence between the exchange of value. For me it's not so much that free is more pure, and therefore better. It's that … [Read more...]
Welcome Mary
There's a new blogger on the block. And it's a woman! Not that that matters, but it somehow does. I mean there are plenty of women in technology, yet the math still works out that there are far more men as bloggers, podcasters, coders, etc. Mary Schmidt and I met at a tech venture capital meeting … [Read more...]