Topic: Media
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Brewster Kahle, the founder and digital librarian of the Internet Archive. They're not just archiving web pages -- there's now books, movies and 3,000 Grateful Dead concerts.
In this keynote presentation from the 'road to convergence' forum by First Tuesday in Zurich, Switzerland, Paul Hitchman talks about the changing landscape of music distribution and licensing. Paul is a co-founder of PlayLouder, a "Music Service Provider," and in this talk he asserts that it is now only voluntary to pay for music. He also addresses the role of P2P, DRM and other technologies and paints a vision for the future for music creators and consumers.
More and more people are using mobile phones with integral video cameras to capture events. Some of the most harrowing pictures from the London bomb attacks in July came from amateur video taken underground by passengers with camera phones. We seem to be heading towards a future where everything we experience will be captured and stored for retrieval. Perhaps only the sheer scale of the numbers of people involved will be the biggest safeguard we have against the nightmare of 'Big Brother' surveillance. [Accelerating Change Audio from IT Conversations]
In June of 2005 the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held that Grokster and Streamcast (providers of Morpheus peer-to-peer software) could indeed be sued for infringement for their prior activities. But what brought us to this point in time and what will the decision mean for current peer-to-peer companies and software? What does the decision mean for developers in the future? This panel discussion looks to the past in order to discover the legal landscape of the future for digital media. [Sound Policy with Denise Howell on IT Conversations]
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. With this in mind, the company recently launched video search to make visual content such as TV shows and online videos more easily accessible. In an unscheduled and wide ranging interview with John Battelle at Web 2.0, Google co-founder Sergey Brin describes his belief that the company is a technology leader rather than a content-rich portal like some of its competitors. [Web 2.0 audio from IT Conversations]
It's hard to know what's more significant about Apple's video iPod. Is it the hardware -- thinner device, more storage, larger screen and video for the same price -- or is it the deals that Apple struck with Disney/ABC for television content? Host Larry Magid grills Eddy Cue, the VP of iTunes at Apple, to try and find out what the secret sauce might be that has given Apple a 75% marktet share in portable audio players despite what should be competitive devices from other vendors. [Larry's World audio from IT Conversations]
The broadcasting media are competing with their audiences for attention. Every user is a potential broadcaster
and content creator. Users are no longer watching content passively but are actively reusing and remixing content to
fulfill their creative endeavors. Paula Le Dieu speaks on how the BBC is digitizing and making its archived content
available online so that users can reuse, remix and share it under the creative commons license.
[ETech 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
Blogs are conversations, and like all discussions, sometimes the talk gets ugly. This panel discussion brings together mobile technology blogger mobile jones, computer science professor Ellen Spertus and journalist, novelist and blogger Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez with moderator Liza Sabater to discuss flames and how to deal with them. [BlogHer 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
The discussion about whether bloggers are journalists is one that inspires heated opinions. In this conversation from BlogHer, several blogger/journalists discuss the relationship between blogging and so-called traditional journalism. Moderator Lisa Stone asks Anastasia Goodstein, Chris Nolan and Evelyn Rodriguez to share their experiences of the relationship between independent online publishing and traditional media. [BlogHer 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
The time is right to explore your own Internet TV or radio station. Get ready to reach out to the world through podcasting and video blogging. Listen to Lisa Williams and Ryanne Hodson discussing "Get Your Word Out: Audio/Video-casting" at the BlogHer 2005 conference. [BlogHer 2005 audio from IT Conversations]
