Learning with the Fang

Over the weekend several people alerted me to the fact that someone had ’stolen’ my logo.Turns out that Richard McManus had (rather skillfully in my opinion) used one of my flickr images in a post on the ReadWriteWeb blog.
And that’s fine because I decide to ‘give away’ most of my rights to my digital content […]

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I am working on an interesting video project with the edna team. Our esteemed leader, Mr John Travers has issued a ‘grassroots video challenge’:
If you have a go, you will in return get my undying respect, affection and gratitude not to mention professional regard at being a venturesome person. I have made a little invitation […]

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Not sure if I’ve got this right or simply leaped to a hasty conclusion:

Collaborate, Hierarchy, Top Down
Cooperate, Mesh, Bottom Up

Slide 43 from this excellent talk made me think it so:

Hoping someone will jump in and correct me if I am being too concrete.
Listen to the whole talk and note the subtle difference between cooperation and […]

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Network!
YEP - THAT John Cleese is to extend his ‘chance to sound off in my old age’ online video distribution through thepodcastnetwork.com, of which he says:
‘is “rather good, run by Australians, and none the worse for that.” ‘

Congratulations to Cam our fearless leader, and the other team members who worked to make this happen. […]

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I think re-mixing digital text, images audio and video is an important part of the future of language
I am anxious to see legal reforms that will allow safe and legal re-mix of digital versions of the sound and scenes that I grew up with
I get grumpy when I see important artefacts from my own upbringing […]

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