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Living on the Edge: Danny O'Brien's talk about moving our personal info off Web 2.0 and onto our... PDF Print E-mail

Here's some (way shakycam) video of Danny O'Brien's OpenTech presentation, "Living on the Edge," an extremely provocative and interesting talk about how we might restructure the Internet so that our personal and important moments aren't hosted by YouTube, Flickr, and Blogger, but rather on our own machines.
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Post-apocalyptic bookmobile PSAs from Mississippi PDF Print E-mail

Matt sez, "When I was in fifth grade, Mississippi Public Broadcasting decided to introduce a series of short films to educate children...
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Cameraheads in Seattle protest CCTVs in public places PDF Print E-mail
The Camerahead Project is a Seattle protest group upset about the growing prevalence of CCTV cameras there -- they're staging a bit of theater tomorrow in Cal Anderson Park, walking around with giant cameras on their heads to get people thinking about what it means to have their public spaces under constant surveillance.

Local artist Paul Strong, Jr. says he?s holding the demonstration, called the...
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Yahoo Music shutting down its DRM server, customers lose all their paid-for music the next time... PDF Print E-mail
Yahoo Music just announced that it's pulling the plug on its DRM server -- that means that as of September 30, everyone who bought Yahoo Music will lose the ability to recover it from backup or transfer it to a new PC. Like I said when MSN Music proposed to do the same thing: "All those years the music industry spent insisting that the only way they'd sell music is with crippling DRM attached...
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