Last week, I attended a press-preview for Tron: Legacy at the London IMAX, where the film was screened in 3D. It's an extremely fun bit of entertainment, with some surprises, loads of nostalgic pandering to the sort of person who saw the original Tron as a kid (such as me), and some interesting commercial notes. — Read the rest
We make technology, but our technology also makes us. At the online science/culture journal Edge, BB pal John Brockman went deep — very deep — into this concept. Frank Schirrmacher is co-publisher of the national German newspaper FAZ and a very, very big thinker. — Read the rest
If you needed another reason to feel sad about the passing of the iconic television journalist Walter Cronkite today, this video is it. John Perry Barlow tweets, "True fact: Walter Cronkite was a hot drummer. Once saw him play with Mickey Hart, Mike Gordon, & Mutatator. — Read the rest
I am blogging this from a wifi-enabled plane somewhere above a square state in the USA. The passenger sitting next to me is frustrated that no cable news is shown on the plane — she wanted to keep up with the turmoil in Iran during this 6-hour flight. — Read the rest
I'm asking a number of BB friends to contribute guest posts here on the situation in Iran. Next New Networks founder Tim Shey was flying from NYC to LA yesterday, and had an interesting personal story — he kindly obliged my request to write it up for BB. — Read the rest
Jan Rubak, a Canadian mathematician/physicist, has been reading aloud all the essays from my collection Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright and the Future of the Future and uploading them to the Internet Archive, and this week, he finished! He's even included some bonus material from John Perry Barlow. — Read the rest
Today, Tachyon Books and I are launching my latest book, Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future, my very first collection of essays. In it are 28 essays about everything from copyright and DRM to the layout of phone-keypads, the fallacy of the semantic web, the nature of futurism, the necessity of privacy in a digital world, the reason to love Wikipedia, the miracle of fanfic, and many other subjects. — Read the rest
Vinay sez, "John Perry Barlow is in Iceland for the Icelandic Foundation for Digital Freedoms' conference. We shot this Fourth of July talk with him at Thingvellir, the ancient site of Iceland's historic parliamentary republic, B. 930 AD, D. about 3 centuries later." — Read the rest
Today at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference, I attended the Electronic Frontier Foundation's panel, "On a Brighter Note…", a talk about why we should be optimistic about the future of technological liberty. I took a ton of notes and uploaded them. — Read the rest
Markus sez, "After Lessigs stunning talk at 23c3 in Berlin there was an interesting debate between Lawrence Lessig and John Perry Barlow about strategies in the copyfight. We did an interview with Barlow right after the debate about massive civil disobience to crash the system:"
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[…]If you wanna share something – share it.
Mark O'Neil says,
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Last year BoingBoing posted some info about the "Chaos Congress" here in Berlin, Germany and I haven't noticed any mention of it this year. This "hacker" convention is excellent and I've really been looking forward to it all year.
The audio from Tuesday's night's standing-room-only lecture by EFF co-founders John Gilmore and John Perry Barlow at my USC lecture series is online (thanks to Mike Jones and Andy Sternberg for their yeoman duty!). Gilmore and Barlow are pioneering giants of cyberspace, having created many of the institutions and safeguarded many of the liberties we take for granted today. — Read the rest
A reminder that tomorrow night, EFF co-founders John Gilmore and John Perry Barlow will speak for free at the University of Southern California, as part of my Fulbright Chair lecture series. We'll have online audio and video afterwards, but this is one you want to see in person if you can get there. — Read the rest
Mitch Kapor won't be able to make it to next Tuesday's Giants of Cyberliberties talk at USC. Mitch had some minor surgery and his recovery — though going well — is taking longer than expected, and he's been advised against travel. — Read the rest
UPDATE: Mitch Kapor won't be able to make it to next Tuesday's Giants of Cyberliberties talk at USC. Mitch had some minor surgery and his recovery — though going well — is taking longer than expected, and he's been advised against travel. — Read the rest
USC's Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy is hosting audio from last week's speech by Jason Schultz, the EFF lawyer who runs the patent-busting project. Jason gave a great talk on Internet Freedom (his slides are online, too) — the ways in which we've benefitted from an open Internet, and the ways that openness is threatened on all fronts, by legislators, greed, and censors. — Read the rest
My pal John Perry Barlow — Grateful Dead lyricist, copyfighter, and co-founder of EFF — conducted an electronic debate with ex-congressman Dan Glickman, the head of the Motion Picture Association of America on the BBC's website. The results are a hoot. — Read the rest
On March 20, 2003, the US-led invasion of Iraq began. I don't spend much time sifting through BoingBoing's archives, but just now I clicked on March, 2003 to look back at posts we made about the beginning of the war. — Read the rest
Yesterday, I blogged stories about various Grateful Dead spokespeople and band-alumni making promises to reverse their attack on fan-recordings that are hosted at the the Internet Archive (these recordings were made by dedicated fans with the band's explicit blessing, and have been the core of an decades-old evangelical unpaid promotional campaign by Deadheads that has returned a gigantic fortune for the band). — Read the rest
