Archive for October, 2007
I’ve done a lot of work in the area of what some called, Digital Happenings, with Mesh.FM, setting up SFAI Design + Technology Salons and more recently the Creative Commons Salons in SF. Oh, and then, lets not forget then the great amount of work that has gone into Overlap.org’s several releases, multiple live shows, and coordination. For now, lets juts not talk about the open source projects.
Lu and I have been brewing these ideas together into, what I’m calling, Media Events, where the prime focus is to destroy the proscenium model and focus on making the main participants of an event both the performers/creators/producers and the consumers. Another way to look at this “media event” is that the performers become the audience, and vice versa, or for this event, the performers and media are in a flattened hierarchy, but that sounds too static. In Lessig-speak, the event is attempting to be media-centric “read/write” culture-y (that is Eric Steuer speak) 
Tomorrow night, October 30 @ 111 Minna in downtown San Francisco, we will be experimenting with the “Media Event” setup with the Show Some Color 2 event I blogged about previously.
Come out tomorrow night from 6-9 PM! We are still hopeful to get a few more people there with video cameras. We will have all recorders (vloggers) license their work under a CC BY license, thus retaining their full copyright. Similarly, all people who come into the space are required to sign a model release form for more certainty for all recording. We are trying to do this legit, but also generate media from every single person who enters the space, and also provide copyright-awareness-power to the recorders of video.
Come on out and join us in this endeavour! Our goal is to generate some interesting content, but my alterior motive is to generate piles of content from the event and see how to make a simple happy hour have the magnitude of a large press conference…maybe as big as the hulu all night conference call
UPDATE and NOTE: This is a year old post, so its not up-to-date…oops…clearing the queue…The original post is here.
I’ve been trying to come up with unconventional ways to raise money for the small non-profit. Yesterday, someone decided to auction off their old web domain and give 90% of the money to Creative Commons. So, I started to think about all the code that is sitting on developers’ shelves, old domains, etc. I wonder if other developers would consider auctioning off domain names, old code, etc, and or just outright donating old code, domain names, etc. to Creative Commons. This code would get licensed so that it would be Open Source and I would even take the time to make a place for it that would be visible and accessible.
Does anyone have any code, failed or sleeping dot.com projects, and/or domain names they would like to donate to CC? CC could then decide what to do with these (auction, put online, developer further, etc). From the likes of the domain name auctions on Ebay, this is a great way to raise funds. However, I’m quite surprised that not more people are trying to sell their code on-line on ebay.
Also, I just now started to wonder about how to apply the similar logic of fundraising of naming certain properties after people, for the web. Like, how much of a donation would it take to get certain tools, sections of a website, or campaigns named after donors?
Maybe I should try this for my site. I could name my next open source tool after someone, for a donation of $1000 USD. Hmmm…maybe I should rename an old project if anyone is interested in this
What other unconventional tactics can other people think of that would help CC or any nonprofit in the world, raise money to stay in operation? What new possibilities are there? So much time and money is spent on adapting and revolutionizing business, but what about simple nonprofit operations like fundraising?
Photo by Joi Ito @ iSummit 2007 in Dubrovnik
This is the CLEARING OLD DRAFTS (whether they are done or not).
I’ve been putting all my slideshows up on slideshare.net. Its a totally great service that supports Creative Commons licenses. Here are my slides that setup a Building Community panel at conf. in Croatia a few months ago:
Also, check out the presentation I gave at the webvideosummit (thanks to Cameron Parkins for putting this up!)
I’m trying to clear out the patches I’ve written that are chilling on my system (near bitrot). Since I don’t code that much anymore, sounds like a good time to get them out and about.
Here is my themed login patch with additional hooks (and additional plugin called overlap-profile-feed.php) to the brilliant themed login plugin by James Kelly. I’ve added some additional actions to James’ 1.1 version which allow for some pre and post registration calls to add a user to a mailing list if they so please and add a default feed they can edit on their profile page. This is used to automatically aggregate their valid feed onto http://overlap.org/tag/commons using feedwordpress.
Also, here is a custom plugin I wrote which hooks into the feedwordpress action system which allows you to put html before and after an aggregated post. We use this on overlap.org to put content into a blockquote and to provide a link back to the original page (to get trackback love).
Here is the public SVN repo with the latest changes to custom overlap plugins.
I released the above code under LGPL.
UPDATE: I forgot to put this Patch for authors.php for authors.php (diff’d against authors.php 1.0)which adds feed support.
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Sooooooo cooollll….wake up if you aren’t reading about this!
Lu and I got a place in SOMA in SF, which has been taking up a lot of our time lately. Part of this has been the fun and unexpected task of finding chairs and stuff so that we can rent it out when we travel or want to go somewhere else. Over night, we practiced Kees’ “scene diving” concept into the world of supermodern design.
So, I set my site scanning skills on stun and have been zoning in on some design blogs like Design Sponge andfreshome.
This is a cool gem I found on freshome.com today: A House That is Built in 1 Day.
If there are better design blogs that I’m not mentioning, please comment on this thread. I promise I’m not going to get all off-track with this life-blogging about arcane details of my life. The next big stop is figuring out China more…holla!
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