http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll Building a culture of participation Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:30:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a year, I found that maintaining two sites was actually causing me to write less. In an effort to find focus and a sustainable situation, I've begun a new consolidated effort aptly titled, Todo Mundo. I hope you consider following along! [Exeunt] http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll/2006/12/07/introducing-todo-mundo/ Steven Starr of Revver gave a demo of their "super distribution" model for compensating creators of internet video. By taking advantage of Quicktime HTTP hooks, Revver dynamically serves a single-frame advertisement to the conclusion of a video each time it is played. Apparently, this has resulted in over ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll/2006/06/24/bringing-dollars-to-viral-video/ Today's keynote panel considered the challenge of building a commons that can accomodate the needs of a diverse groups of creators. Implicit in this conversation is the question of core values. What unifies artists from the Future of Music Coaltion to geneticists working with Science Commons? Amid ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll/2006/06/24/copyright-as-social-contract/ Join us in Second Life! http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll/2006/06/23/join-isummit-in-second-life/ Sitting now in the precariously-powered computer lab at iSummit 2006 in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. I borrowed a digital camera from Rebecca, so I'll be keeping you updated photographically via my Flickr account. Check back here in a few hours and I will have begun tapping out my thoughts. ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll/2006/06/23/follow-me-around-isummit-2006/ The Brain Gain discussion last Tuesday was great. Preparing for the talk helped me organize some new thinking around the role of computer science in junior/senior high school curricula that will inform the work I do in the autumn. Next year, grades 6, 7, and 8 will not ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll/2006/05/15/reflections-on-brain-gain/ On Tuesday (5/9), I'll be visiting the Brain Gain discussions with the HBS Education Technologies & Multimedia Development group (ETMM) to talk about "Tomorrow's Learner Today." We're going to start from a discussion of online identity management and the tremendous value of Myspace before spreading out to other key ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll/2006/05/08/brain-gain-tomorrows-learner/ Cory Doctorow's talk at Harvard tonight was titled "Set Top Cops" and worked through the various threats posed by DRM. I use the word "threat" not to take a side in this debate, though my position may be obvious, but rather to stress that this talk largely succeeded in ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll/2006/02/16/notes-cory-doctorow-at-harvard-feb-15-2006/ Reviewing my notes from the Maddog talk, I realize that I omitted a critical revelation in my last post. In an argument for f/oss novel to my ears, Maddog explained the benefit that open code can have on local tech economy. If a company deploys an open-source product, ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll/2006/01/23/open-code-supports-local-economies/ Tonight, I had the opportunity to hear Jon "Maddog" Hall give a high-level talk (appropriately peppered with server-room humor for the crowd) at this month's BLUG meeting. For an audience familiar with the the free/open-source software movement, the presentation was a thrilling cheerleading session. Maddog (so named by ... http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/driscoll/2006/01/19/jon-maddog-hall-at-boston-linuxunix-group/