“Because the Internet is entirely made of private property, things like the First and Fourth Amendments do not necessarily apply.” Internet pioneer and current Chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Brad Templeton discusses how the Net does not give you the protections you might think you have, and the intricacies of copy-right control in the digital age.
“The status system works on the theory that the more you’ve suffered, the more you’ve experienced, the more authentic you are.”— Po Bronson.
In this exclusive podcast with Pajamas media and culture correspondent Andrew Keen, Bronson talks about creativity, writing and how to make life tell you stories others can’t wait to read.
Google is more than the story of some misty, happy start-up. As long as mankind exists, we will now have a digital artifact of what we’ve looked for, and what we’ve found, and what we’ve interacted with. As the Internet swallows all other forms of communication, and all that becomes indexed and tracked, everything we do with it will become knowable, not known but knowable. That is a pretty profound shift in our culture. One that gets to the edge of science fiction. — John Battelle.
“The more we exercise our fearlessness the more available to us it is.” — Huffington
Author, poltician, blogger and gadfly to the media and the political establishment, Arianna Huffington is her own introduction. And unlike some post-post-modern Athena springing from the head of Zeus. Huffington is her own creation as well. She did it by overcoming her own deep seated fearfullness. In this interview with PJM Special Corrrespondent Andrew Keen, Huffington discusses her new book, On Becoming Fearless, a text pointed at women, but which, she explains men can profit from as well.
“My job is to—is to find the talent and develop the talent, work with the talent, and try and make the scripts for that talent work, find the film-makers who can deliver to an audience that we think is defined by what Channel 4 stands for and make those movies happen by putting my money on the table.” — Tessa Ross, producer of the Oscar-winning The Motorcycle Diaries, Touching the Void, The Road to Guantanamo and head of film and drama at England’s Channel 4. Here she talks with PJM’s Special Correspondent Andrew Keen of AfterTV and The Great Seduction.
In this insightful conversation, PJM Special Correspondent Andrew Keen of AfterTV, gets Poe to talk about Wikipedia, a global web collaboration that Poe believes will be around in 500 years: “Wikipedia is really not an encyclopedia. It’s more like a dictionary. It has the definition, a kind of rough description, of the way we talk about everything. It’s not expert knowledge, it’s common knowledge.”
Silicon Valley was the source of the—sort of series of innovations that started with the transistor and went to the semi-conductor and the micro-processor that are now transforming every industry and I think institution on the planet. — Saxenian
Often controversial but always provocative, Dave Winer is one of the individuals that through skill and personality make the Web work. His work, like many influential programmers, supports the content of the Web.
From Frontier to RadioUserland to RSS to Podcasting, Dave Winer’s had a hand in it all. Inventing most of it and improving all of it. At the same time, his irrascible personality has given him the reputation of one who “does not play well with others.” Winer makes no apologies. And after all, if you are hearing this podcast or reading a blog or RSS feeds of any flavor, it is in a large measure because Winer thought it would be “a good idea” and made it happen. He’ll fill you in daily on more ideas at what may be the “original blog,” Scripting News.
A selection of quotes and a full transcript of Winer’s interview with PJM Special Correspondent Andrew Keenfollows below.
Entrepreneur, venture capitalist, publisher, author, and central Net presence for nearly two decades, Esther Dyson ( Release 1.0 ) always seems to know where the Web is and where it is going next. In this exclusive interview she talks about the once and future Internet with PJM Special Correspondent Andrew Keen.
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Special Correspondent Andrew Keen talks motherhood with Joan Blades, author of The Motherhood Manifesto: What America’s Moms Want - and What To Do About It, and founder of MomsRising and MoveOn.org. An exceprt from the book is available in the form of this article at the Nation. Blades discusses the difficulties faced by parents — mothers in particular — in modern business culture and society as a whole, and what we can do to solve them.
Andrew Keen is PoliticsCentral’s podcasting source for the present and future convergence of media, culture and technology.
Pajamas Media Special Correspondent Andrew Keen presents an in-depth podcast interview with Philip Rosedale, creator of Second Life.
Rosedale relates how, since childhood, he was fascinated by the possiblity of a second reality in the here and now of the world. Here’s how he made it a (cyber)reality, or, as he puts it: “I’m not building a game. I’m building a new country.”
Andrew Keen is PoliticsCentral’s podcasting source for the present and future convergence of media, culture and technology.
The Michael Richards n-word incident continues to take its toll, especially in media circles. I just noticed, for instance, that former Los Angeles Timesman Bob Baker’s attempt at “satirizing” Richards’ recent comedy club implosion used the n-word 23 times and therefore got him in trouble with a “reporter/friend,” (presumably nonwhite, otherwise I suspect Baker would have tried to come up with some sort of argument.) But the sometime L.A. Times writing coach quickly backed off from his Lenny Bruce-inspired parody regretfully and fully.
When PJM learned last week that certain web sites were being blocked at the US Department of the Interior, we asked Baron Bodissey to take an up-close and personal look at what was going on. What he found does not increase trust in the transparency of big government —
Mike Godwin of “Godwin’s Law observes that you might not be interested in “Net Neutrality,” but “Net Neutrality” is interested in you.
If you’ve heard the phrase “net neutrality” (or “network neutrality”) in the news lately, and you haven’t immediately passed out from boredom, good for you — the term itself is pretty yawn-inducing.
The policy question itself, though, ought to interest you. The public debate about net neutrality is at its heart a debate about whether we want to keep the Internet growing and expanding and contributing to our cultural growth as it has been, or whether we instead want to turn it into something as static and predictable as telephone service or TV.
I’m a journalist first and blogger second, so I’ve never joined that reflexive “down-with-the-mainstream-media” cheer I often hear from the blogosphere. Noodling about the antics of your kittycat, or what you had for breakfast, or how brilliant your prose — even though it gets almost no hits — does not make you a journalist. (Or even a writer, for that matter. Sorry.)
CYBER-RIGHTS TODAY: EFF's Chairman Brad Templeton Speaks with Andrew Keen
Second Life and Digital Maoism: Andrew Keen Interviews Jaron Lanier, Web Visionary
Telling Stories from Life
The Searcher: John Battelle and the Database of Intention
The Fearless Arianna Huffington
Making Movies Happen: Film Producer Tessa Ross Talks with Andrew Keen
Everyone Knows Everything. Andrew Keen Interviews Marshall Poe, author of "The Hive" in the Atlantic Monthly:
The New Argonauts of Silicon Valley
Dave Winer: "I wanted to live a brilliant life..."
The Net's Next Ten Years
Joan Blades: The Motherhood Manifesto
Philip Rosedale: The Past, Present and Future of Second Life