Category Archives: Freedom

an open internet

An important video from Jesse B. Dylan.

Posted in Evangelism, Freedom, Video | 4 Comments

sidekick and data lock-in

I took the above photo with my Sidekick 3, a phone that at the time I loved dearly. It was probably one of the best phones on the market until the iPhone came on the scene and still does things … Continue reading

Posted in Data, Freedom, Sidekick | 5 Comments

patents as part of the american experience

Ahh, 2006. It seems like such a long time ago! Back then I was working at Red Hat on OLPC and Microsoft had just accused free software of being Unamerican and communist. It was a good time, honestly, to know … Continue reading

Posted in Freedom, Long Attention Span, Regulations, Storytelling, Video | 3 Comments

royalty free codecs at the IETF

There’s a press release / post up about a BoF that’s going to happen tomorrow, July 30th, at the IETF meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. The Xiph folks, along with some people from Skype, are proposing that the IETF form a … Continue reading

Posted in Audio, Freedom, Standards | 7 Comments

dailymotion and open video

Today Dailymotion, one of the world’s largest video sites, announced support for open video. They’ve put out a press release, a blog post on the new openvideo site as well as a demo site where you can see some of … Continue reading

Posted in Daily Motion, Firefox, Freedom, OGG, Open Web, Video | 33 Comments

the open video conference – june 19-20 in NYC

On June 19th and 20th, there will be a conference in New York City on open video.  If you’re interested in the problems around open video and want to talk with other people, many of whom are working on solutions, … Continue reading

Posted in Communities, Events, Freedom, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 3 Comments

open-government.us

The matter of copyright and access to content seems like a small thing in the mix of problems that the new President will face when he gets into office.  Indeed, when compared to problems like climate change, a faltering world … Continue reading

Posted in Freedom, Lessig, Obama, Open Web, Politics, Regulations, Video | 1 Comment

a shared culture

Via Joi Ito.

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competing for an open (generative) web

John Lilly pointed people at a really good article in the New York Times by John Markoff about the Olympics as a hook to get Silverlight onto people’s computers. It’s a good overview and is worth reading. The article covers … Continue reading

Posted in Apple, Design, Firefox, Freedom, Google, Mozilla, OGG, Open Web, Video | 15 Comments

the hidden value of processing.js

The ever wonderful John Resig finally posted his totally awesome processing.js code to the web. If you haven’t seen it, you should go take a look. The Wired Compiler blog said “…this might be the most impressive thing we’ve ever … Continue reading

Posted in Firefox, Freedom, JavaScript, Microsoft, Mozilla, Open Web, Processing, Uncategorized, Video | 28 Comments