So a few month’s ago, Chris blogged about the importance of shareability, using the example OK Go’s inability to set their videos free on the internet (EMI forbade making them embeddable).
This was a very good example of how content owner myopia (in this case EMI’s) damaged the viral potential of great stuff that people actively [...]
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Lessons in Shareability #2: OK Go have OK Gone.
Rory A - March 11th, 2010Remix selecta!
Rory A - November 20th, 2009“This world in which we pretend that we’re not all copyright criminals is like the Victorians who pretended that they didn’t masturbate”
A pretty strong analogy perhaps but this is just one of the gems in RiP! A Remix Manifesto a fantastic documentary that challenges the notion of copyright law in today’s digital age.
Boing Boing’s Cory [...]
Digital Alchemy
Rory A - October 8th, 2009You wait for ages for a good idea and then three come along at once.
A few years ago I heard someone pitch an idea on Radio 4 that was so good it hurt. It genuinely made me a wee bit pissed off. Parkatmyhouse.co.uk promised to do (and still does) what the internet does best: directly [...]
Angry Trampolines
Rory A - July 23rd, 2008A few months ago Matt came back from Bug 05 raving about a few films he had seen. One of which was the brilliantly simple, visually stunning and richly detailed zZz Grip . The brief: Shoot a live sequence to open a short film festival in Holland Nederclips – [...]
