rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

Ok, I’m going to start this series of annoyance blog posts without much backup, aka, straight from the hip annoyances. Yes, this is a departure from my normal problem+solution blog posts, purely intended to rile things up and get some ideas off my chest. I will gladly fall on my sword and flip-flop my ideas at any point depending upon mood, situation and conflict of interest, of which I’m surely conflicting with some interest some where (that is disclaimer that these are *my* fleeting ideas only):

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Ok, I have three annoyances: #1 is Pixar Movies. What is this bag of toys that Pixar is promoting and who is paying to watch these movies? I’m going to hold the line about Pixar: The top supercomputers computing the dumbest/simplest stories. What is this ratatouille B.S. Also, yes, good for kids — wrong! Pixar films are about merchandising and turning little kids into shoppers! Blue light special!

The #2 annoyance is spammer activist sites like MoveOn.org. Oh yes, sign-onto their service saying you support anti-monkey welding by republicans and then you are continuously re-looped into their torrential spam-pour (like downpour) and then what seemed like paying a sintax (ala, terrapass), becomes a daily hate of good causes. This also links tangentially to another annoyance which is the wont for pseudo-activist sites wanting near-dead-people onto their spam fundraising lists as a measure of money they might get.

The #3 is the death of performance as being witnessed by laptop musicians. Yes, it is time to get over the death of the author. How can one sit through any live event now without being given the courtesy of group participation. If you are performing behind a laptop, you better allow for people to hook in somehow, or you risk defeat by the audience taking the event into their own hand, or rather Palm, or rather blackberry. Is what you are doing behind your laptop more interesting than any email inbox? Does your performance provide something that my email inbox doesn’t?

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Ok, and I will end this segment by saying: Trackback and comment freely!

If its not obvious, I’ve been on the road a bit. Here is a great summary that Cameron Parkins did on the Creative Commons blog:

This past weekend, our very own Jon Phillips had the pleasure of speaking at The First Annual Pixelodeon Festival, an independent video festival that specifically celebrates global online video. From NewTeeVee:

While much of the discussion focused on how to make a business out of producing video content for online distribution, Creative Commons Jon Phillips’ presentation on new ways to think about copyright reminded me that it was ultimately a celebration of new tools and ideas for people making motion pictures online.

Jon was also interviewed by Ryan is Hungry, a wonderful videoblog that focuses on the environment and sustainability (check out the video here). In the interview, Jon goes into detail concerning CC’s mission as a whole and, more specifically, how CC and CC licenses pertain to vloggers. The folks at RIH draw a comparison between CC’s mission in relation to media development and the motivation behind sustainable living, a wonderful analogy that I haven’t previously thought of before.

You can check out a myriad of pictures from the festival here (including this wonderfully big CC logo). Similarly, you can see/download Jon’s presentation here, via the spectacular slideshare.net (which we have previously profiled).

Now I’m at iCommons iSummit where I put together a panel and am contributing to the discussion (possibly detracting in some ways) and also am helping to define how to best accelerate the CC jurisdiction projects.