The other day, I clicked a link to some video footage of rather savage riot police beatings in Iceland which happened last week. The video was hosted on LiveLeak, a video sharing site similar to YouTube which bills itself as “Redefining the Media.” I had a few questions about the site, so I used the […]
This week, CampusMovieFest, a pretty great organization that gives film equipment to kids to make short films in one week, came to BU. This year, their primary sponsor is AT&T, a company which is responsible for voluntarily and illegally assisting the NSA in one of the largest and most intrusive privacy violations in human history. […]
TV-Links (now dead) is a site which links to sites like Google Video and YouTube, which host clips of TV shows. Today, the Gloucestershire County Council, in association with a group called the FACT, raided the site’s servers and arrested the 26 year old man from Cheltenham who ran the site.
A man is now in […]
Andrew Keen is basically in disagreement with every single thing I stand for. He’s apparently opposed to giving the masses the ability to produce art and share opinions, because he claims that hurts those who do the same thing, only with corporate backing. Although I agree with him that journalists should report the full […]
I told myself I wasn’t going to update until I had a completed project up. Sorry to disappoint, but I’m writing this empty handed. I’ve simply been too busy with school to bring you anything decent. There are a few half finished projects in the pipeline, but they’re all going to take a fairly significant […]
I love Creative Commons. For those not yet in the know, Creative Commons is a set of copyleft (as opposed to copyright) licenses for creative works like music, photographs, films, essays and websites. Since they were first published in December 2002, there have been hundreds and hundreds of thousands of works licensed under various CC […]
