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Who started this? (Sydney red dust bridge with Godzilla)

mseyfang — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:17:09 +0000

Did you start this?
Know who did?

I would be grateful for any hints leading to the original creator(s) of this work. I think it makes a fascinating study in photographic mash-ups, copyright, creative commons and remix culture in general.

UPDATE:

Thanks to some great detective work by Graham and Leo we now know that the photo was taken by Mark Khademi from Milson’s Point and that it was featured in online galleries by both the BBC and the Australian (which could well account for all the un-attributed e/mail that followed). So Mark, if you are reading this, I would love to know if you are cool with the re-use of your image and if you can shed any light on the first person to re-mix it by adding the large lizard.

I am trying to track down an attribution chain to the person who took this photo and the first person to photoshop it (adding ye olde lizard). I first saw “Godzilla – Sydney Dust Storm – by Julia” on Flickr

It kinda freaked me out because it reminds me of a print of the image below I have behind my desk (which has a story of its own).

- this one (Uploaded on September 23, 2009 by avlxyz) [cc:by,=] (1600 x 1071)

The comments on this one indicate it was received by e/mail and point to two other versions:
- Grrrrr! Sydney Red Dust vs Godzilla
- Godzilla in Sydney
A further clue is given by – rahsoft, ah, thanks for the tip. i got the original in the same email… taken with a Nikon D60 at 07:40 GMT+10!

Grrrrr! Sydney Red Dust vs Godzilla
Was Uploaded on September 23, 2009 by glossy_mirrorplanet [C] (1600 x 1071)
Who is not the original author but points out it has been circulating round the net.

Godzilla in Sydney
Was Uploaded on September 23, 2009 by The Gee Spot [C] (1024 x 685)

So, if you can help track down the originators leave a comment.
Ta.

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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Photonics video remixed and featured by AdelaideNow

mseyfang — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:36:17 +0000

This video of Professor Tanya Monro featured on the AdelaideNow website contains re-mixed footage shot by other people! This is a VERY GOOD THING which represents the first fruits of something I have beeen trying to achieve for a very long time.

Over a year ago, I convinced Prof. Monro to fund the shooting and purchase of some video footage that we could publish online with an open license. This effectively grants PERMISSION IN ADVANCE to anyone who might want to re-use that material. Up to now, the only person who has actively re-used this footage is me, preparing educational and promotional resources for the University of Adelaide.

So, what are some of the things I have been trying to achieve?

Leadership in appropriate strategies for re-use of digital material in the context of online social media
Promotion of some excellent research by passing interesting stories through social networks
Efficiency in the very costly process of creating effective digital stories
Protection of valuable brand and IP assets through careful selection to manage risk
Prototype an ecosystem for multi-generational re-mix of digital assets for both research and teaching & learning

How does this early example of re-mix rate against my lofty goals? I’d say we score 6/10 based on the following criteria:

Efficient – at short notice we conducted brief interviews & provided links to existing footage with minimal disruption to labs
Effective – a good, new story has been created and shared on a high traffic site
Correct – appropriate footage was re-used (in fact, some of it was ’second-generation’ that is based on footage that was already re-mixed)
Social – passing links to the video through twitter and facebook resulted in a measurable increase in views of the video in a very short time period (from 10 to 40 at the time of writing, within hours of publication). Compare this to the average of 0-5 views of other videos published on the same site, earlier on the same day.

On the down-side we missed out on:

Attribution – the only requirement stipulated by our open (cc:by) license is that some form of attribution is given to the source of content. Ideally this would take the form of a hyperlink like this: “video materail courtesy of Prof. Tanya Monro“
Possibility of future Re-Mix – the streaming video on AdelaideNow site is difficult to download and is locked up under Copyright (i.e. not openly licesed). This means that this story will die when the video ‘ages off’ the AdelaideNow archive. Furthermore it is effectively sterile and very unlikely to ‘re-produce’ because of the restrictions just mentioned.

How could we do better next time?

Attribution – it would be enough to mention the names of contributors to successive generations of video content in some form of credits in the video itself. For example video courtesy of Mike Seyfang, Rob Morrison and Tanya Monro covers it. Better still, hypertext links in the copy surrounding the video might reward the contributors with visits to their websites, downloads of their material and possibly further re-mix of their work. That could be achived in a simple sentence “video courtesy of Mike Seyfang, Rob Morrison and Tanya Monro .” Even better still something like:

Derived from video by Mike Seyfang, shot by Rob Morrison , courtesy of Tanya Monro.
Derived from video by Mike Seyfang, shot by Rob Morrison , courtesy of Tanya Monro.

Downloadable for easy re-mix – in addition to the streaming video, provide links to easily downloadable versions in appropriate formats for editing. For example this version of the ‘GreenBeamMeUp’ sequence is available as medium resolution quicktime and mpeg-4 while this version of it can be downlaoded as high resolution DV-Video (which is how it was shot). p.s. As a side note – trying to prevent downloads by only offering streaming video is a complete joke. Worse still the futile act of crippling the content with DRM locks and the like.
Open License – granting permission in advance to would-be re-mixers is a very potent thing to do. The cc:by (Creative Commons, Attribution) license granted to carefully selected material from Prof Monro’s labs places only one restriction on future re-mix – that of giving some form of Attribution. As re-mix culture evolves, I predict that any material not licensed as openly as possible will rarely be discovered, seldom re-mixed and will therefore dissapear out of culture over time. Notice what happens in the advanced search tabs of google and flickr – when selecting material you are free to re-use and modify, even for commercial purposes, only the most openly licensed material is returned in the search results. Think about the impact of that.

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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How to make nice 16×9 DVDs out of a PowerPoint presentation

mseyfang — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 03:43:55 +0000

Design->Page Setup->Custom 27.09cm x 15.24 cm Make your slides (with bugger all text boys and girls) Save As (Other Formats) jpeg (exports each and every slide to a .jpg image of 1024x576 pixels precisely) Quicktime player (pro) file open image sequence, pick first file in numbered series from the folder created by powerpoint save as allow 10sec per frame save as quicktime .mov movie (will use apple jpeg codec by default) expect about 4mb per 100 slides. iDvd new project, 16x9 PAL (Professional Quality) Drag your .mov to autoplay area in the 'map' view Select that movie and choose options -> loop Burn to DVD. All will be good. converting powerpoint presentation to widescreen DVD format 1024x576 DVD PAL

Twitter, cursebird and the Anthropologist

mseyfang — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Since my earliest tinkerings with the social web, I have thought the digital trails we write to the internet would make ideal data for anthropologists to study. My instincts regularly ‘give me feelings’ that the things I experience through my online networks are profound and perhaps mirror the inner workings of my brain or maybe even an ant colony. I have often wondered what a scientific study of the digital tracks left by my blog posts, comments, flickr images, video mashups and most recently twitter tweets might do to re-enforce or de-bunk my intuition.

Having had the privilege of hanging out with Microsoft’s chief anthropologist Anne Kirah after a presentation I gave a few years back got me thinking about what people in her field of research would make of this data.

Then, just before the US Election I discovered ‘cursebird‘ through a very *serendipitous tweet exchange with JP (the 5th beatle of the Cluetrain Manifesto and oracle of all things online and social):

jobsworth :

RT dsearls (who’s sitting next to me at telco 2.0) Holy shit, it’s Cursebird: http://cursebird.com/

2008-11-04 04:23:02

Reply

fang :

@jobsworth – say Gday to Doc from two OZ fans, @fang and @dnwallace. Loving the tweets cursing the cursebird ;-)

2008-11-04 05:21:59

Reply

jobsworth :

@dnwallace @fang hello back, and looking forward to the fourth and final contest starting this Friday.

2008-11-04 05:34:16

Reply

Which really showcased (to my warped mind anyway) how an open set of API’s on a bunch of data from people thinking out loud (140 characters at a time) can reveal much to a half-crazed pseudo-scientist. Here are my first quickly jumped to and almost fact free conclusions:

My hand picked twitter network (following just under 100 people I actually ‘know’) are not as obsessed as the general twitterverse with US elections BUT… I can not recall seeing one pro-republican tweet in the midst of much pro-obama rehetoric. Makes me wonder if I should apply my ’subscribe widely’ ethos to my twitter followers to avoid the echo-chamber.
The swearing twitterverse was swamped with the meme ‘dont fuck it up america’ in the hours leading up to the US election. It seemed that these messages came from both within and outside the US of A – some of them from my own network. There seemed to be a real push for action intended to spur Americans to get out and vote democrat.
Just after Obama claimed victory the swearing twitterverse resonated with “ we won!” My own network contained several emotional and positive references to Obama’s victory speech and seemed to echo a sentiment of a new era of hope.
Within hours the hope had evaporated for some when the LA gay marriage vote went down and the odd cynical self proclaimed expert touted ‘Obama voted against gay marriage and is therefore a hypocrite’ – end of hope). Fascinating stuff!

I tried to go back and collect some cursebird screenshots as evidence but alas, I’m too late. At least one punter out there shares some of my enthusiam for cursebird’s window into the global brain.

billmerrill :

Watching fucking cursebird instead of dumbass teevee, better election coverage.

2008-11-04 18:54:22

Reply

This morning I woke up with a bunch of cursebird inspired titles for possible future blog posts:

Twitter, cursebird and the Anthropologist
Twitter, cursebird and the US-Centric echo chamber of the social web.
Twitter, cursebird and ‘instant karma’ by scatterbrain
Cursebird shits on my clean feed (showing how to subvert pornfilter into a pornfinder)

Please enjoy this post, cursebird, recreational drugs, religion, self loathing and alcohol responsibly.

*serendipity

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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Why I license cc:by

mseyfang — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:05:46 +0000

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 in the hope that someone will find it useful and re-use it to tell their story. No need to ask, just be polite and give me attribution (which Richard did by linking to my ‘mikeblogs‘ flickr account). That’s what:

cc:by or ‘Creative Commons – Attribution’ means.

Sure, Richard could have made me look stupid – but I do a pretty good job of that myself.
Sure, he could make money off that post – good luck to him, he did the hard work.
Either way I gain more than I lose by having my work re-mixed into a new context. Had I licensed my work in a more restrictive way (say cc:by-nc-sa which means reuse must be non commercial and licensed in exactly the same way) it is unlikely that anyone would have found it, let alone re-used it.

I’m guessing here, but I suspect that Richard used the advanced search in flickr and decided only to look for images about ‘readwriteweb’ that he is free to use for commercial work, with modifications. Images licensed with more restrictions would simply not be displayed in the search results.

This is why only work that is freely licensed with continue to be relevant in future culture (but that is a rant too long for the short amount of time I have before sleep time).

Some other places you will find derivatives of my image:

http://fang.blip.tv/file/633462/ – a presentation that helped my create an excellent job
http://fang.blip.tv/file/105776/ – a mashup of Lessig and Downes that they have both seen
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikeblogs/323586161/ – my entry in a creative commons competition
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/306021623/in/pool-ccswagcontest06 – an entry by the winner of that creative commons competition
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cambodia4kidsorg/300492293/in/pool-ccswagcontest06 – the original image from which I borrowed the cc:frisbee
http://flickr.com/photos/31477768@N00/227948364 – my original hand drawn diagram
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grassroots video challenge – my REMIX

mseyfang — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:54:12 +0000

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 example here, http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=3698243344429972742&hl=en-AU that on reflection, is too long and tedious, but you will see, sets the bar for technical standards nice and low. You will see a couple of other efforts I have put on Google Video.

Here is my response.

Enjoy

Fang – Mike Seyfang

Movie of PodCast of my Talk – Water Industry Alliance

mseyfang — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:24:06 +0000

Inspired by good feedback on the PodCast of my ‘New Media’ presentation to the Water Industry Alliance, I have added slides and movie clippings of the demonstrations.

The talk has been published on blip.tv where you can go to get all the goodness, from files to download and make your own remix to versions you can watch on your favorite device or even stream to your computer.

Alternatively, you can download the half size (20mb) or full size version of the movie from:

media.mikeseyfang.com/WIA-PostPitchfesMikeSeyfangTalk-Small.mov
media.mikeseyfang.com/WIA-PostPitchfesMikeSeyfangTalk.mp4

Right mouse, save as the
Download (90mb) movie.

Thanks to all the folk listed in the credits for use of their digital work in the remix, especially Paul and Mark who provide large chunks of content and/or inspiration. Shout out to Mark and Shane and Michael for their surprise inclusion!

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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Presenting newmedia to Water Industry Alliance

mseyfang — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:51:01 +0000

Just finished a very lively presentation to the Water Industry Alliance.

UPDATE: Movie of the PodCast available HERE:

As a follow up to last month’s PitchFest event I took the audience on a rather brisk journey from the world of web sites and e/mail into the unchartered waters of read/write culture. Along the way we looked at the basics of blogs, podcasts and video remix – using information from and conversations about the PitchFest event.

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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Compliment or Exploitation? – my Flickr cc:by photo used for commercial gain

mseyfang — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:36:52 +0000

So, should I feel flattered or ripped-off that a for profit business included one of my flickr photos from Glenelg beach in a travel site?

Well, let me tell you – I take it as a compliment and this is EXACTLY why I license my stuff cc:by not cc:bync or anything sharealike. To me, it is the greatest form of flattery to have my digital work remixed into new work that gives it a greater chance of surviving as culture evolves. Just last week, I was honoured to have one of my podcast episodes sliced up and pushed forward. I’m certainly no artist, but my kids just might be and I think it is important for me to test out and model smart ways to live and work in the digital, read/write world.

It is quite likely that the people searching for relevant photos to include in schmap used something like the ‘advanced search’ in flickr to find images they could use without asking permission:

Stuff licensed cc:by,nc or cc:by, nd just doesn’t show up in a search like that.

Furthermore, the people from schmap have created a little process that I think is quite smart, first they e/mailed me so that I could ‘opt-in’ for possible inclusion. Then the followed up with a ‘you have been successful’ (a little cheesy but not too bad) e/mail which included a permalink to their use of my work in context. I think this is very smart and a good example of the way things should be. Even though I deliberately relinquished some of my ‘rights’, the consumers of my digital content took ‘responsibility’ to make sure I was happy with what they intended. And look what happened, I responded by writing this blog post that will pass forward some of the link love they have shown to me.

Everybody wins.

Nobody loses.

Comments please?

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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p.s. Here are the e/mails I recieved (in addition to comments on my flickr photos):

    From:     editor@schmap.com
    Subject:     [Flickr] Schmap: Adelaide Photo Short-list
    Date:     22 August 2007 6:03:44 PM
    To:     mseyfang@mac.com
    Reply-To:     editor@schmap.com

You’ve been sent a Flickr Mail from Luke Ritchie:

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:: Schmap: Adelaide Photo Short-list

Hi Mike,

I am writing to let you know that one of your photos with a
Creative Commons license has been short-listed for inclusion
in the third edition of our Schmap Adelaide Guide, to be
published early September 2007.

http://www.schmap.com/shortlist/p=31477768N00/c=SE50051710

Clicking this link will take you to a page where you can:
i) See which of your photos has been short-listed.
ii) Submit or withdraw your photo from our final selection
phase.
iii) Learn how we credit photos in our Schmap Guides.
iv) Browse online or download the second edition of our
Schmap Adelaide Guide.

Our submission deadline is Sunday, August 26. If you happen
to be reading this message after this date, please still
click on the link above (our Schmap Guides are updated
frequently – photos submitted after this deadline will be
considered for later releases).

Best regards,

Luke Ritchie,
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides

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and…

    From:     editor@schmap.com
    Subject:     [Flickr] Schmap Adelaide Third Edition: Photo Inclusion
    Date:     2 September 2007 9:42:18 AM
    To:     mseyfang@mac.com
    Reply-To:     editor@schmap.com

You’ve been sent a Flickr Mail from Emma J. Williams:

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:: Schmap Adelaide Third Edition: Photo Inclusion

Hi Mike,

I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo
has been selected for inclusion in the newly released third
edition of our Schmap Adelaide Guide:

Glenelg Beach Resort
http://www.schmap.com/adelaide/lodging_budget/p=161330/i=161330_10.jpg

If you like the guide and have a website, blog or personal
page, then please also check out our schmapplets -
customizable widgetized versions of our Schmap Adelaide
Guide, complete with your published photo:

http://www.schmap.com/schmapplets/p=31477768N00/c=SE50052833

Thanks so much for letting us include your photo – please
enjoy the guide!

Best regards,

Emma Williams,
Managing Editor, Schmap Guides

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A Naked Yak has mucked with me (and I like it)

mseyfang — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:18:54 +0000

I just love the fact that the podcast Dave and I do breaks all the rules and continues to reward us for doing so. The honour of hanging out with one of the brightest people on the planet is reward enough in itself, but sometimes little jewels pop out of the long tail. Yesterday I was extremely flattered to notice (via facebook) that Biff Naked had taken the liberty of publishing a small snippet of one of our episodes on his blog.

Why is this important:

This is a foretaste of the future of media and of language

danah boyd says it better than I can, so I have taken the liberty of messing with her fireside chat with Mark Pesce – PLEASE take a LISTEN.

allowing consumption to become production taking stuff and muck with it and spit it back out…

what would happen if we gave students free range to remix and muck with our politicians YouTube videos (and indeed everything they see on any screen) ?

we need to work hard to digitize and legalise access to the soundtracks and movies that shaped our lives so that we can muck with them and speak them into the future of culture

Stephen Downes clued me into this a few years back when he spoke of the ‘post linguistic and sub symbolic’ nature of mashing up bits of people’s audio with images, text and video. That’s what inspired me to muck with his podcast (and prof lessig’s) to produce THIS video mashup. It’s the reason why I stayed up way too late one monday night to muck with danah’s first talk in Australia.

So thank you Mr. Biff – I’m flattered. The episode you listened to and sliced up was the most extremely rambly and long ‘thinking out loud’ session Dave and I have ever done. In fact, we both discussed cutting it down to less than one hour – glad we didn’t. Looking forward to meeting you on a future episode of extraordinary.thepodcastnetwork.com.

http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar/2007/08/30/fireside-chat-with-danah-boyd-and-mark-pesce/

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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http://australianscreen.com.au/titles/mad-max/clip1/

snip01messingwithdanah.mp3

http://www.nakedyak.com/?p=125

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Leigh Blackall wrestles with Creative Commons

mseyfang — Thu, 24 May 2007 08:45:17 +0000

I tip my hat to Leigh Blackall for his gutsy effort in tackling the tricky issues of using Creative Commons licenses skilfully. Leigh opened the webheads online convergence conference with his keynote talk by stepping outside his comfort zone, into the perilous waters of copyright. Leigh explains some of the unexpected restrictions that come in to play when trying to license digital content in an open way – from the point of view of a learning institution.

It’s hard going but well worth a listen and ongoing conversation. I have run into the same pain points that Leigh describes in my work with LearnDog. Having done a few rounds of this conversation myself, I thought I would try to summarise some key points:

cc:by (attribution) is a good starting place for open content in the Creative Commons world
cc:nc, sa (non-commercial and share-alike) seem to ‘add open-ness’ but actually bring surprising restrictions in a number of circumstances
things get really messy when learners and educators try to re-use (remix) content, especially when hosted on commercial platforms with intrinsic license constraints
the whole debate could go away – if the default position were non-commercial sharing: as Stephen Downes has said about Creative Commons:

it shouldn’t be necessary; the default should be non-commercialsharing, while commercial ownership and use constitute exceptions)

Fang – Mike Seyfang

Another good reason to ignore copyright material

mseyfang — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:28:24 +0000

I can almost see the day when all digital work that is subject to copyright will fade from view. Those brilliant lawyers and middle managers from the music industry here in Aus have just sped the process considerably:

The Sydney Morning Herald:

Ms Heindl said that this could apply even if a person had
embedded a copyright-infringing YouTube clip in their blog or
MySpace page.

“We don’t make any distinctions between big websites or small
websites”, she said, adding that MIPI would consider individual
blogs on a “case-by-case basis as to whether it would be
appropriate to take action”.

Ms Heindl’s message to Australians is clear: “If you are linking
to copyrighted material in an unauthorised fashion, then you can be
held liable for copyright infringement.”

It’s just to much of a hassle and dangerous to work with copyright material. Thanks to the little birdie who dropped a link to this in my Skype IM.

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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CreativeCommonsDRM-Flickr Contest

mseyfang — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:16:19 +0000

http://flickr.com/groups/ccswagcontest06/pool/

A big thanks to Kapn Kirk, Blakey and Antz for helping turn my crazy idea for the ‘Creative Commons Swag’ contest into a reality. The T-Shirt I ordered just in time for a rushed photo shoot and some photoshop munging. Here are my two favourites:

For those interested in the creative process, keep reading, otherwise take a quick peek at THIS SHORT VIDEO that inspired the whole thing.

Being the father of two creative teenage kids (and a bit of a digital hack / remixer myself) I was both moved and challenged by Prof Lawrence Lessig’s talk about Read/Write Culture as delivered to LinuxWorld 2006. Having listened to the Podcast several times and armed with a few hand drawn diagrams, I decided to some digital remixing of my own in an attempt to experience and work through some of the issues raised in the talk. The SHORT VIDEO referenced above is the result – featuring audio from Prof Lessig, Stephen Downes and various bits and pieces from my kids and their school friends.

When I heard about the ‘Creative Commons Swag’ contest I visualised a photo of myself presenting that video from the podium of the Microsoft Innovation Centre I helped establish a few years ago. Trouble is, the rules dictated that I be wearing some ’swag’ (e.g. T-Shirt) that I didn’t have. So, I jumped online and ordered some. While waiting for delivery to Aus, I made some images using stuff from the video, a photo of me and an image of a T-Shirt from the online store. Then, a wonderful thing happened – Beth Kanter (cambodia4kidsorg) ‘mashed me up’ – and I returned fire!

Beth, then one a weekly prize for this cute shot:

My black CC T-Shirt finally arrived, so a quick trip to the Innovation Centre so Kirk and Chris can take some pix of me onstage with various backgrounds on the big screen:

Then into PhotoShop and call for some help from my mate Tony (The Albino):

Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants! – What a blast (and excellent learning exercise).

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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Brain MashUp via Lessigs Read Write Culture talk at LinuxWorld

mseyfang — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:33:01 +0000

The supply/demand Triangle photo below is one of the latest products of the MashUp that is occurring in my brain since listening to Prof Lawrence Lessig’s address to LinuxWorld 2006. My original plan was to write a concise blog post (or maybe even white paper) summarizing neatly my reflections on this talk.

Instead, I have been inspired to create a whole bunch of pictures, audio, video – even machinima mashups as I try to work through the ramifications of Read Write Culture. I am not sure how I can (or even if I should) share this work with you. I will start by uploading what I can to ‘official’ Creative Commons sites like CCmixter and this Wiki.

The whole process has caused me to almost blow a fuse, and is really challenging my views on what is legal / ethical in the remix / mashup world, and how difficult it is to effectively adhere to the ‘Some Rights Reserved’ idea.

SupplyDemandTriangle

Fang – Mike Seyfang

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Kents BlogRoll Mashup (Musical opera in 88 lines)

mseyfang — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 05:00:23 +0000

Damn – I wish I had ‘invented’ this cool idea – make a mini opera by setting gossip about your blogroll to a catchy tune!! Nice work Kent. The trick is to listen to the song from his web-page while you read the text and hover over the links – (possibly not work-safe unless your neighbours are broad minded).

Dave the LifeKludger gets link-love in good company.

Fang – Mike Seyfang