“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements” — Norman Douglas Being in Germany usually spares me the pain of digesting U.S. commercials. But a friend recently pointed out Burger King’s controversial Whooper Virgins spot, and it got me fired up about…
Significant news for the future of the music biz, and a clearly persuasive case study for openly licensed content: NIN’s Creative Commons licensed Ghosts I-IV has been making lots of headlines these days. First, there’s the critical acclaim and two Grammy nominations, which testify to…
Imagine Couchsurfing…for drills. A platform with profile pages, ratings, and social networking for any physical objects, be it household appliances, office supplies, or exotic and rare rentals. Users upload information about objects they own, which can be searched and requested by other users. The objects…
(via Lessig) The Obama-Biden Transition Team website, change.gov, is now licensed under the most permissive CC license, CC Attribution 3.0. This is excellent news and a great step towards openness and transparency in the government. (For those of you wondering, apparently the creative works of…
Hands-on conferencing in the Hansestadt! BarCamp Hamburg is in full swing in the welcoming OTTO GmbH offices. There’s 83 slotted sessions over two days. Quite a few sessions are talking about “x + 2.0” (China, Mobile, Hotel, Browser Games, World Improvement), but thankfully there are…