Charles van der Haegen's List: Wealth of Networks

"Here’s your invite to reuse and remix the 4 million Creative Commons-licensed videos on YouTube

Today’s guest post comes from Cathy Casserly, CEO of Creative Commons (CC), for an update on CC BY videos on YouTube.

Four million creative commons videos on YouTube are just waiting to be reused, remixed, and reimagined—more videos than anywhere else in the world.

Since the Creative Commons video library launch on YouTube a year ago, you’ve added more than 40 years’ worth of video to the mix. Anyone, anywhere can edit, build on and republish the library’s videos for free thanks to the Creative Commons Attribution license, otherwise known as CC BY.

Do you need a professional opening for your San Francisco vacation video? Perhaps some gorgeous footage of the moon for your science project? How about a squirrel eating a walnut to accompany your hot new dubstep track? All of this and more is available to inspire and add to your unique creation. Thanks to CC BY, it’s easy to borrow footage from other people’s videos and insert it into your own, because the license grants you the specific permissions to do so as long as you give credit to the original creator.

You can pass on the creative spirit when you publish your video, by choosing the option to license it under CC BY so that others can reuse and remix your footage with the YouTube Video Editor. This is where the fun really starts. Imagine seeing your footage used by a student in Mumbai, a filmmaker in Mexico City, or a music video director in "

A blog by a great number of intellectuals around the theme crooked timbet

A blog about law, technology, and culture
Michael Madison
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Frank Pasquale
Seton Hall University Law School
Deven Desai
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Alfred Chueh-Chin Yen
Boston College Law School
Brett Frischmann
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Greg Lastowka
Rutgers University Camden School of Law
Ann Bartow, Pace University Law School
Josh Sarnoff, DePaul University College of Law
Michael Carroll, American University Washington College of Law
Jacqueline Lipton, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Bruce Boyden, Marquette University Law School
Rob Heverly, Albany Law School
Michael Risch, Villanova University School of Law
Megan Carpenter, Texas Wesleyan School of Law

"Chiang Mai, Thailand - The competitive dynamics of industrial capitalism are well-known, and they are all about scale.

Producing more of a unit enables companies to drive the unit price down and thus outcompete the competition. Multinational corporations and global brands now have very complex value chains, in which various parts of a product are mass-produced in different parts of the world.

Nevertheless, the system has obvious weaknesses. One weakness is that it tends towards monocultures, both agricultural and industrial. One example is the dependence of the Chinese coastal economy on exports.

Because competition drives prices down, the dominant western players changed their strategy in the 1980s. They abandoned costly western workers, moved low-profit industrial production to low-wage countries, and expanded the intellectual property (IP) regime using patents, copyrights and trademarks. As Thijs Markus has written, if you want to sell $5 shoes for $150 in the West, you'd better have one heck of a repressive IP regime in place. Hence the need for SOPA, PIPA, ACTA and other attempts to criminalise the right to share."

"About Raw Story

Raw Story is a progressive news site that focuses on stories often ignored in the mainstream media. While giving coverage to the big stories of the day, we also bring our readers' attention to policy, politics, legal and human rights stories that get ignored in an infotainment culture driven solely by pageviews.

Founded in Cambridge, MA in 2004, Raw Story reaches more than 2 million unique readers per month and serves more than 11.4 million pageviews. Recent focal points have included Occupy Wall Street, Wikileaks, wiretapping and judicial abuse.

See aqrticle Lower court’s ruling stands: Downloading music is not a crime
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"Why Watchdog? And why questions?

Questions the press should ask.

Great questions are a key to great journalism. But often, in the press of deadlines, the flood of raw information, manipulated news, deliberate misinformation and just plain junk, great questions are hard to develop. Reporters and editors need to know what's happening, why it happened, who's involved, who's affected and what happens next.

The premise of watchdog journalism is that the press is a surrogate for the public, asking probing, penetrating questions at every level, from the town council to the state house to the White House, as well as in corporate and professional offices, in union halls, on university campuses and in religious organizations that seek to influence governmental actions.

The goal of watchdog journalism is to see that people in power provide information the public should have.

The Nieman Watchdog Journalism Project grows from this premise and this goal: to help the press ask penetrating questions, critical questions, questions that matter, questions not yet asked about today's news. NiemanWatchdog.org seeks to encourage more informed reporting by putting journalists in contact with authorities who can suggest appropriate, probing questions and who can serve as resources.

What sets us apart.

There are already many very good journalism Web sites. Nevertheless, we think our function at NiemanWatchdog.org – suggesting questions the press should ask – sets us apart.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University was founded in 1938 "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States." For many years now the program has included international reporters and editors as well. Nieman Fellowships enrich outstanding practitioners by bringing 24 of them to Harvard University for a year of study in fields of journalistic specialty.

NiemanWatchdog.org carries this process a step further. It seeks to bring the richness of Harvard and other centers of learning to journalists around the world and to other interested groups and individuals as well.

Independent experts are often eager to help journalists identify what is important, what can illuminate and expand a story. NiemanWatchdog.org will give journalists access to such experts at Harvard, the home of the Nieman Foundation, and at other campuses across the country. NiemanWatchdog.org will also seek out the expertise of authorities in the professions, activist groups, politics, commerce and government – perceptive thinkers who are experienced in and care about public affairs.

Through NiemanWatchdog.org, these authorities will suggest questions and provide background on topics in the news. We will supplement their knowledge with a Web log, links to other informative Web sites and additional resources.

Why questions?

Some may wonder about our emphasis on asking questions, since politicians and most of the rest of the world – even schoolchildren – are adept at sidestepping them. What's the point of asking good questions if the answers aren't forthcoming?

First, the ability to ask appropriate questions comes only with an understanding of the subject at hand. When experts help with questions and background, they also help deepen the reporter's knowledge of the issue.

Second, targeted, insightful questions are typically more difficult for public officials, candidates and others in public life to dodge, mislead or even lie about.

Finally, the questions don't disappear simply because a president, or someone else in a high position, won't give a straight, complete answer. The answer may lie in documents or in interviews with other sources, or both. But assuredly, a key to great journalism comes mostly to reporters and editors who ask the right questions, who have a full understanding of what they are looking for and who can recognize what rings true and what doesn't.

We encourage your comments about NiemanWatchdog.org. Your feedback will help us make this site an even more useful resource for you.

Barry Sussman
Editor, Nieman Watchdog Project
bsussman@niemanwatchdog.org
May 24, 2004"

"Mission Statement

Public Knowledge preserves the openness of the Internet and the public’s access to knowledge; promotes creativity through balanced copyright; and upholds and protects the rights of consumers to use innovative
technology lawfully.
Our Core Work

Public Knowledge works at the intersection of copyright, telecommunications, and Internet
law, at a time when these fields are converging. PK's experience in all three areas puts it in
an ideal position to advocate for policies that serve the public interest.

What Public Knowledge does:

Ensure universal access to affordable and open networks
Promote creativity through balanced copyright
Advance government transparency and the public’s access to knowledge
Uphold and protect consumer rights
Oppose policies that would slow technology, impede innovation, shrink the public domain, or limit fair use
Educate the press, the public, and policymakers using plain-language analysis, white papers, blog posts, and videos
Produce events that provide a forum for policymakers, the public, industry, and the press to exchange ideas about our core issues"

"Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.

Arduino can sense the environment by receiving input from a variety of sensors and can affect its surroundings by controlling lights, motors, and other actuators. The microcontroller on the board is programmed using the Arduino programming language (based on Wiring) and the Arduino development environment (based on Processing). Arduino projects can be stand-alone or they can communicate with software running on a computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP).

The boards can be built by hand or purchased preassembled; the software can be downloaded for free. The hardware reference designs (CAD files) are available under an open-source license, you are free to adapt them to your needs.

Arduino received an Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities section of the 2006 Ars Electronica Prix. The Arduino team is: Massimo Banzi, David Cuartielles, Tom Igoe, Gianluca Martino, and David Mellis. Credits"

"What is Clicker?

Clicker is the complete guide to Internet Television. Our mission is to make it simple for you to find the right show, right now.

As massive amounts of programming move online, consumers are entering a world of infinite choices, all on-demand. Great! Finding the show you want to watch? Painful. Thousands of episodes from thousands of shows are housed on thousands of different sites, mixed among billions of random clips and videos.

Clicker catalogs all broadcast programming online, along with TV-quality Web originals, from these silos and delivers them in one seamless, organized experience so you can easily discover what's available to watch (and what isn't) online, where to watch it, and what's worth watching.
How Do We Do It?

To make it fast and easy to find a show you want to watch right now, Clicker is one part directory, one part search engine, one part wiki, one part entertainment guide, and one part DVR. At the heart of it all is a massive database that looks like this:

Clicker contains more than 1,000,000 episodes from over 12,000 shows from over 2,500 networks, 40,000 movies, and 90,000 music videos from 20,000 artists.

Staying on top of what programs are available online and offline, organizing them for you, and recommending gems for you to discover is what Clicker is all about.
How You Can Help!

Did we say Wiki? Why yes. Every show and episode we catalog comes with a bunch of information to help you to decide what to watch. This includes pictures, descriptions, themes, categories, cast members, airdates, related shows, programming notes (sometimes FYIs, sometimes warnings), ratings and more.
How Can I Submit My Show or Site to Clicker?

If you have a television program, or television-quality online program, that is not currently on Clicker, submit it for review or send us an email to help@clicker.com and we will take a look.
Who Are We?

Clicker was created by a passionate team of TV-loving freaks with search engine, media, data and content management backgrounds.
How Can You Reach Us?

Visit our Contact page or let us know what you're thinking at Get Satisfaction"

"Summary Argument

"I argue in my article, copyright is essentially a means of allowing people to take what they've borrowed from elsewhere (like Paul Simon did in 'Graceland') and stamp the label 'Theirs' on it. Virtually nothing is completely original, but copyright acts as though the whole work was. It allows people to steal from the ideas, culture, language that we have all created in common and to label it their own." "

"Welcome to the Identity Woman Blog. Here are some links to help you get started on understanding identity on the internet:

My Personal Saga with Google in the [psuedo]NymWars to use the name I choose on their service - annotation of all my posts.

National! Identity! Cyberspace! Why we shouldn't freak about NSTIC on my Fast Company blog.

Government Experimenting with Identity Technologies on my Fast Company blog.

My speech at the Digital Privacy Forum in January 2011 articulating a vision that goes beyond "Do-Not-Track" vs. Business as Usual, creating a new ecosystem where people collect their own data.

The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace asked industry leaders to share their ideas on how the Identity Ecosystem should be governed and managed. I wrote a response that covers much of the history of the user-centric community along with a vision of how to grow consensus.

Core User-Centric Identity Concepts Videos on the NSTIC.US Education Page (be sure to scroll down), including Identity, Authentication (AuthN), Authorization (AuthZ), Verification, Enrollment, etc.

Organizations and Events I share leadership in:

Internet Identity Workshop #14 May 1-3 in Mountain View, CA. This conference has focused on User-Centric Identity since 2005.

Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium So far there are 16 startups focused on developing the new business opportunities for people collecting and getting value from their own data. We contributed to the World Economic Forum Rethinking Personal Data Project report Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class.

Identity Commons keeps all the organizations and groups working on user-centric identity linked together.

OASIS ID Trust Steering Committee representing Planetwork and people."

"Dara O'Briain tells it like it is (or should be) about various delusions pretending to be medicine."

"CDT’s mission is to conceptualize and implement public policies that will keep the Internet open, innovative, and free.

Preserving the Unique Nature of the Internet: The open, decentralized, and user-controlled nature of the Internet creates unprecedented opportunities for innovation, democratic participation and human development.

Enhancing Freedom of Expression: CDT fights for the right of individuals to communicate, publish and access an unprecedented array of information on the Internet. We oppose governmental censorship and other threats to the free flow of information. We believe that technology tools—not government controls—are the best way to allow families and individuals to make choices about the information they receive on the Internet.

Protecting Privacy: Maintaining privacy on the Internet requires a mix of laws, corporate policies and technology tools giving people control of their personal information.

Limiting Government Surveillance: CDT advocates for stronger legal standards controlling government surveillance, to keep pace with the growing exposure of personal information as digital media have become central to our lives."

"About GovTrack.us

GovTrack.us is a tool by Civic Impulse, LLC to help the public research and track the activities in the U.S. Congress, promoting and innovating government transparency and civic education through novel uses of technology.

Launched in 2004 as merely a hobby, GovTrack.us was the first website worldwide whose primary goal was to provide free and comprehensive legislative tracking for everyday citizens and to embrace Web 2.0 and open data for government information. GovTrack.us was a 2006 Webby Award nominee and has been covered in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and it is the data provider for many other websites displaying legislative information.
How it works

GovTrack helps you find the status of U.S. federal legislation, voting records for the Senate and House of Representatives, information on Members of Congress, and congressional district maps.

Much of the information shown on GovTrack is assembled in an automated way from official government websites. primarily the website THOMAS which is the official website for the status of legislation run by the Library of Congress. The process of gathering the information is entirely automatic and Congress isn’t always very happy to share, so you may find occasional errors here, but we take errors very seriously and work hard to correct them.

The status and text of legislation is usually delayed by about 24 hours and roll call votes usually appear on the site within an hour. We can only get information as fast as the official sites are updated. Our database also extends into the past. You can search and browse bills going back to the 93rd Congress — that’s 1973-74 — and the text of legislation goes back as far as the 106th Congress (1999-2000). Roll call votes are available back to the start of our nation!

GovTrack has been reported on widely (see our press clippings) and GovTrack’s creator Joshua Tauberer has written about the site in these publications and media appearances:

Inventing Open Government in ACM XRDS, Winter 2011.
The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU, September 2011: “Congress Online: More Information, Better-informed Citizens?”
Case Study: GovTrack.us, in Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice (2010), O'Reilly Media. (PDF)
Building a Civic Semantic Web, in Nodalities, August 2009.
Improve Databases, in The Hill, June 12, 2007.
Legislators Should Live in a Glass House, in The American (online), Feb. 14, 2007."

"DemocracyNow.org - Computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum argues the measures included in the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) would essentially legalize military surveillance of U.S. citizens. "When they want to dramatically expand their ability to do these things in a so-called 'legal manner,' it's important to note what they're trying to do is to legalize what they have already been doing," Appelbaum says. He is a developer and advocate for the Tor Project, a network enabling its users to communicate anonymously on the internet, and has volunteered with WikiLeaks.

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"The U.S. House of Representatives has approved new cybersecurity legislation called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). Supporters say the bill is vital to protect the nation against the grave threat of cyberattacks. Opponents of CISPA argue that the bill's broad language infringes public privacy. As the bill heads to the Senate, we take up the debate.

Host: Joshua Johnson

Guests:

Dean Garfield, president and CEO of the Information Technology Industry Council
Jennifer Martinez, technology policy reporter for Politico
Rainey Reitman, activism director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation"

"French Literature - Jean de la Fontaine Fables
THE WOLF AND THE DOG. - Le Loup et le Chien"

A fundamental article on how new social theory brings new perspectives on how to find and omplement solutions to the intractable problems of our time. These ideas originally developped by Maruy Dougleas, have been refined and developped into a full theory, called Theory of Socio-Cultural Viability, anso sometil$mes called "Cultural Theory". The lead researcher in this field is Michael Thompson, author of this Workshop Report

"There's something really troubling about CISPA. While the Internet rallied against SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and Protect IP, including boycotts, there is near silence about the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. This lack of interest hits BetaNews, too. For more than three weeks, I've asked writers here to do a CISPA story. No one wants it. Am I the only one scared witless about this thing?"

"OuiShare is a constantly-evolving community of people providing Intelligence & Action for the collaborative economy. Just born in Paris, we’re connecting with people worldwide.

Initially, it was a Facebook group (created by Antonin Léonard) of people interested and exchanging about collaborative projects. Ideas were bursting all around. We organized several successful events in 2011. And we realized the need to do something bigger together: that is how OuiShare was born.

Our aim is to raise awareness about the collaborative economy. How? We want to publish and create inspiring content; build local offline and online communities; organize exciting events and other fab stuff around collaborative values.

Do you want to help us and make that happen ? Please get in touch :)


A propos

OuiShare est un collectif international qui vise à favoriser le développement de l’économie collaborative.

L’histoire de OuiShare a commencé avec un groupe Facebook (créé par Antonin Léonard) sur lequel les personnes intéressées pouvaient échanger des informations, des avis et discuter de projets ayant un lien avec l’économie collaborative. Nous avons organisé différents événements en 2011 qui nous ont donné envie de porter un projet commun, ce projet c’est OuiShare.

Notre objectif est de sensibiliser un maximum de personne à l’économie collaborative. Comment ? Par la publication d’articles de fonds, l’animation de communautés et l’organisation d’événements et d’autres projets à venir…

Cela vous intéresse ? N’hésitez pas à nous contacter :)"