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  • Industries that survive and thrive without copyright protection

    I met Johanna Blakeley in LA a while back and when we heard about her project about sharing in the fashion industry, Ready to share, we invited her to talk at the iCommons Summit…

  • TEDx: use our brand but make sure people know it’s not us

    In my networks class today we were talking about co-creation: what it means to co-create, when it makes sense to do it, how it relates to the two-sided market model, and the state of…

  • Learning entrepreneurship by being an entrepreneur

    Tina Seelig just gave a wonderful talk at the iSchool titled: ‘Entrepreneurship is an extreme sport’. She talked about how important it is to teach entrepreneurship by doing. The video above was made by…

  • Can a conference get too big?

    In my final hour of sxsw, I realise that my.sxsw2010 is a story about queues (a.k.a. ‘lines’). There was the line/queue to the Mozilla party that snaked around the back of the building and…

  • Panorama: returning to old business models

    David Eggers doesn’t know much about the people buying Panorama, other than that they are people who buy books from independent book stores, that they are ‘very intelligent’ and are ‘charming and good at…

  • InfoCamp comes to Berkeley

    I’m on the team at the iSchool organizing the upcoming InfoCamp. It all started when we were sitting in a meeting last semester talking about doing an event in the Spring. Someone mentioned InfoCamp.…

  • WikiWars and the politics of despair

    Last week, I was in Bangalore for ‘WikiWars: Critical Point of View‘, a workshop organised by the Centre for Internet and Society (India) and the Institute of Network Cultures (Netherlands). As our invitation letter…

  • The power and the peril of self-congratulation

    It’s exactly a week since GeekRetreat Stanford Valley and I’m sitting in my freezing cold Berkeley apartment collecting my thoughts and the countless pages of notes that I wrote on the plane back to…

  • My first Bangalore adventure

    I set out for food and adventure after arriving at my hotel earlier today and passing out in the kind of drunken stupor only possible when flying half way around the world. Ramanashree Hotel…

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