links for 2007-08-25
- Digital Productions: The Patron’s Jukebox Some excellent music economics futurology from Crosbie. (tags: music futurology notes-towards-free-culture free-cultur)
- Digital Productions: Raining on CC & Buma/Stemra’s parade A skeleton at the music collecting society feast. (I personally believe that voluntary reform can bear on unreformed projects and societies, so it is still a net positive.) (tags: collecting-societies free-culture critique)
- The Foundation for P2P Alternatives – P2P Foundation “We study the impact of Peer to Peer technology and thought on society” (tags: free-culture p2p philosophy studies)
- Conversation Agent: The Mass Participation Economy and Your Brand “mass user-driven innovation is reshaping organizations, with users becoming increasingly involved as co-creators of products and services” (tags: user-innovation participatory brands)
- We-think: The power of mass creativity – Charles Leadbeater “We-Think: the power of mass creativity is about what the rise of the likes of Wikipedia and Youtube, Linux and Craigslist means for the way we organise ourselves, not just in digital businesses but in schools and hospitals, cities and mainstream corporat (tags: free-culture brands collaborative consumer-innovation)
- Boing Boing: Microsoft WGA servers down; all XP and Vista installs being marked as counterfeit “Every single Windows XP and Vista installation — except possibly those with volume license keys — is being marked as counterfeit” (tags: windows drm notes free-software hahahahahahaha)