To build awareness of Free Culture movement a collection of best free books, free movies, free audio and free software has been made available to download. This DVD shows what value free culture has to offer and many issues around it. Some excellent videos on it are Mix Tape, Who Owns Culture? and Trusted Computing. [...]

Recently the HD-DVD copy protection scheme was hacked and a 16-bit decryption key was published on a forum. This is very similar event when the DeCSS code was released that could decrypt the DVD encryption. The code was published on multiple sites within days and eventually ended up being printed on t-shirts and mugs. Now [...]

There is a very insightful article on New York Magazine on a very important impact the social media has created. Parents often have romantic ideas of providing their kids an ideal innocent dream childhood. One that closely resembles their own, except the time has cleaned away any bad memories and painted everything in washed tones [...]

Here is a good essay written by a daily newspaper reader who recently canceled her subscription of 37 years. In her life the value of the newspaper has declined to a point where it no longer has a useful role. It is a great example of how a stale media became a victim of cultural [...]

There is one definite outcome from the YouTube acquisition: The collision of modern consumer media consumption and the content business models of the past century quickens. YouTube was a startup who would never been able to go to court for copyright infringements but Google could. Every media company has been rather waiting to see what [...]

As social interaction is becoming more commonly accepted through online activities by more people there it has also become more urgent for individuals to find appropriate tools that can define their personal identity. In the physical world we have numerous choices for building up identity through appearance, behaviour and how we show support to popular [...]

The entertainment industry is taking steps towards understanding the value of the online digital media and communities. Recently ABC (owned by Disney) announced the availability of free viewing of their hit shows ‘Lost’ and ‘Desperate Housewives’ starting May 1st. They clearly understand the value of creating media viruses and allowing people to freely express their [...]

Joseph Jaffe shares a presentation he gave at Boston Ad Club Symposium which I feel is relevant reading for anyone in the business of advertising and marketing. Check out David Weinberger’s notes as well. For those who work in media that gets their income from advertising this is even more relevant. As the 30 second [...]

Red Tail Media will create new participatory cross-media formats together with leading broadcasting and digital media on the finnish market. These formats allow MTV3 and SubTV viewers build online identity, interact and participate with friends, broadcast and online content and the brands.

Here’s how the blogs changed the way for a one well known journalist, Jeff Jarvis. He is writing in the Media Guardian (via Alan Moore):
Interactivity isn’t easy. I must confess that when I wrote for large publications, I said that I loved my audience … but that didn’t mean I wanted to actually [...]