Bono on Theft

People who don't produce books or music probably can't understand the impact of copyright infringement on those who dedicate their lives to their art. Most people assume that when an artist releases a CD, they will earn millions. Only the mega-stars, such as Bono, earn...

21st Centrury Classroom in the Hills of Dade City

"Twenty miles north of Tampa, Fla., turning east on Hwy 52, flatwoods of evergreens and monotony give way to rolling hills turned cattle land and valleys that hold December morning mists and wax nostalgic for...

"The Resistance" Lonelygirl15 Evolved

It was bound to happen... a spinoff project based on the ubiquitous Lonelygirl15. (If you haven't seen this yet, just search for it on Youtube; the first "episode" appears to the left)Unlike its vlogadelic...

Rat-brain robot created

Under development The Rat-Bot cometh One of the most fascinating science related books I have ever read is The Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition. This story might as well be right out of its...

May 8th is No Socks Day!

Kick of your shoes, paint your toes, get the flip-flops out, and take your socks off because today is No Socks Day!" Always on May 8th No Socks Day is a day to free your toes of the confines of...

Create the Perfect Presidential Candidate with Wiki

Create the Perfect Presidential Candidate with WikiWhat do you want in a presidential candidate?  Does the present slate of candidates lack all of your needs as a part of the electorate?  Well create...

Lonelygirl15 Creators Launch 'Social Entertainment' Company

After successfully pushing the online entertainment envelope with Lonelygirl15 and the Bebo-branded KateModern, I'm very curious to see what new ideas will emerge from the folks at Eqal.They've got a great...

YouTube launches map of where videos are being watched across the world

YouTube announced yesterday it will soon be launching an interesting new feature that will enable video creators to see when and where across the world people are watching their videos. It will essentially map the...

Microsoft open community-created games on Xbox Live

"Microsoft has launched a community driven service that will let amateur creators build and distribute games.At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco,Microsoft’s Chris Satchell, said that it will allow ten million people to play games creater by amateur...

Scrabble Makers Order Facebook To Take Down Scrabulous

"By David Kaplan - Thu 17 Jan 2008 01:36 AM PST scrabulousHasbro and Mattel, the marketers of Scrabble, are accusing the creators of popular Facebook app Scrabulous of violating the copyright on the 70-year-old...

Persistent Thread: The Economics of Information Today

Tom Curley, CEO of AP, has understood that news content is valuable but that it must "float" and not be mired in a single medium nor a single location. I say, "micropayments." What Tom Curley says: "Where I’m coming from is that we must go forward with Web 2.0—all aspects...

CES 2008: A NowPublic Roundup

Day 4: Jan. 9Zune's coming to Canada, but does Canada care?Yahoo pulls a Facebook (apps! apps!), but does anyone care? And some final thoughts from our own mtippett, who was live in Vegas and suspects CES...

Money for Nothing.... Flicks for Free!

"Google said it would share revenue from the ads with the creators of the videos and with the Web sites that embed them, though it declined to specify what percentage of the revenue will be kept by each...

Second Life Bans Beastiality

"Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, may be extending their crackdown on “Broadly Offensive” behavior to Bestiality, following attempts to remove virtual pedophilia (or Age-Play) from Second Life in...

Youtube video slips in a commercial during a teen blog and makes big money

First they got the traffic by duping the public. Now they monetized their video on YouTube. How they did it.

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