‘The Reconstruction of American Journalism’ is a seminal analysis of the state of American journalism by two Journalism professors. One of whom - Leonard Downie, Jr. was executive editor of the Washington Post.
It is a sharp analysis of the state of the industry at a transformational moment. Newspaper news and television news are [...]
In my post below, I mention Lessig’s notion of reframing the debate around file sharing away from the idea of a ‘War on Piracy’ towards a more constructive metaphor. Well today’s front page article in the NYTimes is clearly influenced by the MPAA. Today’s headline: ‘Digital Pirates Winning Battle With Studios’. Obviously it is going [...]
As I mentioned previously, copyright law is broken. Today’s example of the failings of Fair Use come from the Associated Press. The AP is now suing Shepard Fairey - the guy that made those iconic Hope and Change Obama Posters (of which I have the magnets on my fridge) for copyright infringement. Basically he took [...]
Girl Talk, Give Me a Beat
I just finished reading Larry Lessig’s latest book ‘Remix’ on copyright in the Internet era. Much like his other books on the subject, Lessig lays out the case for why copyright law is broken and ultimately harmful to the production and consumption of culture and knowledge. The Girl Talk song [...]
Media discovery on the web is not nearly where it should be. In fact, dare I say it is broken. There is more media available online than ever before and there are a lot of great sites out there with tremendous content, communities and features/functions. The issue is that while I can pretty much find [...]
Just finished reading Tim O’reilly’s great post about the real-time enterprise and why MyBarackObama.com, Google and Walmart were all so successful by creating organizations infused with responsive data technology to sense, process and respond appropriately. Google and Walmart I studied pretty closely at business school - fondest memory was in a class taught by Andy [...]
Took a little break from keeping this blog up to date while I eased in to the whole parenting thing. Zoe Sage Frank was born on September 22, 8 weeks early under some pretty crazy circumstances. She came home after 43 days on Election Day to see Barack elected (44th President for the numeric karma [...]
skate - shot on red - 120 fps from opus magnum prod. on Vimeo.
I read this month’s Wired article about Oakley founder Jim Jannard’s new project to create a digital movie camera that matches the richness of analog with great interest. It sounded like a cool project and product from an eccentric billionaire with time [...]