Culture
Ever been utterly frustrated, made furious, by an Apple upgrade that made things worse? This post is for you. (With apologies to Randall Munroe.)
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Tom Bell is a thoughtful and provocative copyright scholar whose work I follow with interest. On Technoliberation, he has a nice graph showing › Continue reading
Sometimes the past sends you wonderful quotations and images… One of the reasons why the comic drafting process is so much fun…
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I am hard at work writing our new comic on the history of musical borrowing, with my two brilliant co-authors, Jennifer Jenkins and Keith Aoki. › Continue reading
Britain’s National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) had a conference last week on open innovation in culture and science. I got to set the stage but the other talks… › Continue reading
Chapter 6 of the book describes the history of a single song — a protest at the government’s handling of Hurricane Katrina called George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People. It traces the origins of that song back through the 20th century. A number of people have asked me to point them towards online versions of the music discussed in the chapter. › Continue reading