Anyone who’s not on an iPhone might be Apple-green with envy over the amazing choice of apps available for download at the iPhone App Store versus the apps at Blackberry’s App World. There are far more iPhone apps, they tend to be less expensive, and they don’t run on Blackberrys. Is this inevitable, when apps are written… Continue reading »
Aug
06
Sep
09
Harvesting From the Network
As autumn approaches minds turn to harvests, turkey and reasons to give thanks, so I’ve asked my assistant, Tanaz Irani to gather us a bunch of ideas…! On how to monetize social networks. Social Networking & the Power of Millions of Clicks by Tanaz Irani (Spec. Hon. B.A, Pol.Sci.) The fundamentally fluid, non-centered and non-linearly… Continue reading »
Dec
14
How Open Source and Creative Commons Licenses Remain Beholden to Copyright Laws
In an essay entitled “Copyright, Copyleft and the Creative Anti-Commonsâ€, Anna Nimus explores the contradictions of the “copyleft” movement, insofar as the copyright freedoms that are promoted tend to be founded on the orthodox principles of copyright law that they seek to be freed from. She observes: Copyleft uses copyright law, but flips it over… Continue reading »

