Check out “EEPI” ( http://www.eepi.org ), a new initiative aimed at fostering cooperation in the areas of electronic entertainment and its many associated issues, problems, and impacts.
Lauren Weinstein and Thane Tierney have teamed up in this effort to find cooperative solutions to technical, legal, policy, and other issues relating to the vast and growing range of electronic technologies that are crucial to the entertainment industry, but that also impact other industries, interest groups, individuals, and society in major ways.

There are many interested parties, including record labels, film studios, the RIAA, the MPAA, artists, consumers, intellectual freedom advocates, broadcasters, manufacturers, legislators, regulators, and a multitude of others. The issues cover an enormous gamut from DVDs, CDs, and piracy issues to multimedia cell phones, from digital video recorders
to Internet file sharing/P2P, from digital TV and the “broadcast flag” to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)
and “fair use” controversies.

By working together, rather than fighting each other, perhaps we can all find some broadly acceptable paths that will be of benefit to everyone.

For more information, please see the EEPI web site

A moderated public discussion list and an EEPI announcement list are now available at the site.

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The BBC brings an example from Austria where Telekom Austria’s Aon TV has enabled residents of a small town to create their own broadband news station.

Two things I wonder - how much training and promotion was necessary to get this off the ground and how long will it last (it started at the end of 2004).

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A strong libertarian strain persists among parts of the US ‘digerati’. This manifests itself problematically when it comes to issues around hate speech. By an odd coincidence this issue popped up twice for me today. Google News somehow managed to list National Vanguard (a nasty neo-fascist rag) as a news source and has now removed it. And I was surprised when I looked at the rules for submitting content to Ourmedia the other day that pornography (not defined) is banned while no rules govern hate speech. When I raised the issue, I was told by one of the site’s creators that they, “don’t want to be in the business of deciding what constitutes hate speech” (though they are apparently happy to decide what constitutes porn).

It would be nice to think that this won’t turn out to be a problem for them but I fear sooner or later it will. I have urged them to reconsider and at least introduce some tagging system for their content - not because I am worried myself about harmful media effects but because, as I said, “I worry that if teachers and librarians have no way of “protecting” kids from content that might offend those kids’ parents, they will not direct them to ourmedia and indeed might end up blocking access to it.”

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Ourmedia (a spin-off of the Internet Archive) has just launched. This is a hugely ambitious project that the brilliant head of the Archive, Brewster Kahle, alluded to a year ago in a Notcon talk I blogged about. It has been spearheaded by J D Lasica and Marc Canter.

Their intention is to provide a place for anyone who has any kind of digital content to post it publicly, have it indexed, stored and made available online forever, for free, no matter how much of it there is. The price of camcorders has declined steadily and it is reasonably easy to turn video footage into digital files on recently-bought computers. But until now there has been no easy way for people to get their video stored unless they have connections to some kind of digital art organizations or can afford to pay - this is because each minute of full-screen video takes roughly 8Mb of space to store and streaming video over the Internet is a costly business. (Several commercial companies have come and gone offering some kind of video streaming for consumers - Streamload is one of the few I have found still around with a good free offering).

Flickr (which has just been bought by Yahoo) has already demonstrated that providing an environment where people can share picture content and easily form communities around it can enable fascinating and stimulating creative and social activity. Ourmedia lacks Flickr’s interface slickness (it is still in alpha, despite launching today) but it adds audio and video storage to Flickr’s pictures and text and while Flickr has a free offering it is not as capable as their paid subscription features.

With this service, one of the last technical/economic barriers to widespread personal Internet video broadcasting has disappeared. But broadband is still vital for uploading video files and almost as essential for viewing them - and only around 150m households worldwide have broadband.

The biggest overall barrier, however, remains a knowledge barrier. While on the surface using a video camera is simple - just point and shoot - understanding how to do it well to tell a story remains an art. And the software tools for video production available on computers remain difficult to use and time consuming. My father just finished producing a short video of our wedding but it took him two years to complete and a lot of frustration.

I have made an account on Ourmedia but I don’t know what I will do with it yet.

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What the hell is “civil society”? Neera Chandhoke - openDemocracy

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Finally someone from the mainstream media (Steven Levy) asks this obvious question. He gets part of the answer - bloggers tend to link to people like themselves - but tacitly assumes that there are a large number of (for example) black women blogging about the same kinds of things that the leading (white male) bloggers are and being excluded.

This misses the wider point that sociologists like Bourdieu have explored - that many people - particularly those of lower social status or women - may simply never think of political discussion as something ‘for them’ either because they don’t see politics as relevant to them or because they feel their opinions would not be listened to.

Needless to say this has touched off a lot of discussion including a spectacularly over the top and sociologically uninformed contribution from one A list blogger.

elise.com: On the Job

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I logged onto BBC News this morning and found that an iCan story about a community centre had been picked up and featured on the front page - albeit at the bottom right hand corner. I always said that iCan (a BBC project to encourage and facilitate online activism) would only take off if the BBC used its media muscle to highlight cases drawn from it where ‘ordinary people’ made a difference. Looks like this is finally happening (on a small scale).

It will be interesting to see what they do with iCan as it gets close to the election and if people start using it for party political issues…

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Joe Krauss, who co-founded Excite, reveals that although the top 10 searches on Excite were made much more often than any other searches, they only represented 3% of the total searches made that day. In other words - power laws notwithstanding - most searches are the only search made with that term or set of terms on that day. There really is a huge variety in what people look for online.

Of course what isn’t clear is how much diversity there would be if you clustered searches by theme (eg what proportion of all searches are about sex in some form or another). For more about how the Internet makes it possible to address the diverse interests of people as well as their “mass” interests, see this blog post I made earlier.

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My Mac won’t let me import and edit video from a DVD I made from my own footage! At least it won’t without additional software. It doesn’t seem likely that Apple lacks the savvy to tackle this - it seems more likely that providing software to allow grabbing and editing video off a DVD player would open Apple up to the accusation that it was facilitating piracy. Seems like I am not the only person facing this issue either.

So as Prof. Lessig suggests, the technologies of copyright protection (or limitations designed to prevent ‘misuse’) can end up preventing not just criminal but legitimate use of technologies. I have written a bunch more stuff about copyright on my own blog. If you are interested to know how I am struggling to solve my Mac problem (by jumping through a remarkable number of hoops!), click on the link following: (more…)

The latest poll is a little CNN.com - Poll: Most Americans unfamiliar with blogs Thanks to Blogcount for the link.

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According to the 2005 International Business Owners Survey, reported in The Economist, there were wide variations in the amount of time spent by business owners on email. Interestingly, this time does not correlate particularly closely with domestic Internet penetration - it is highest in the Philippines.

It is also striking that the percentage of those who think the Internet has increased their revenues ranges from 13% in France to 84% in (again) the Philippines (graph follows below).

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I innocently thought I would apply Foucault’s concept of Technologies of the Self to personal weblogging (since it seems to me the personal weblog has a lot in common with the self-reflexive and discursive practices Foucault outlined late in his life). Unfortunately, I immediately stumbled into a bog of academic debate from which I am struggling to extricate myself. Little did I realise how contentious Foucault’s ideas about self are - particularly among feminists. Made me feel a bit like Mary Hudock who defines Technologies of the Self thus:

Foucault’s phrase ‘technologies of the self’ refers to ways in which people put forward, and police, their ’selves’ in society; and the ways in which they are enabled or constrained in their use of different techniques by available and disenchanting discourses where the geometric flux abdicates the signifier, leaving us even further removed from any coherent sense of “self” and with our heads on the floor after downing a whole bottle of Jack Daniels in search of the ever-elusive transendental signifier that just might, just might, lead to a sense of self.

I am not sure that even my Finger Foucault can help me now… Maybe I should have stuck with Bourdieu after all!

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I though it was a nice seminar last night, I’m mulling over criticism and comments received. I’ve uploaded the presentation (Suzanne: so you can have the template) and the paper in PDF for you to peruse (no kebab or fish please). Zoe, I’d love to read something if that’s possible. Nina, time to post! David, this is a great place ot keep in touch. All others (and thanks Gordon for organising that), thanks for coming along.

A refreshign expression. Never used before, but the sound of it rings true for once. Thanks to Richard Allan, MP, who instigated the following conversation with the Prime Minister.

TRANSCRIPT FROM LIAISON COMMITTEE SESSION: (see report of full session)

Q101 Mr Allan: Prime Minister, do you accept you will not meet your Gershon Review efficiency targets unless Government dramatically improves its ability to purchase the large IT systems it requires?

Mr Blair: The IT systems are a vital part of it, yes.

Q102 Mr Allan: Given the performance to date on systems like the Child Support Agency, is this something which is up there on your public services agenda that you receive regular reports on?

Mr Blair: It is. Some of the IT projects do not go well and some of them do go well. Funnily enough, if you look at the comparison between public and private sector on IT projects it is not very much different.

Q103 Mr Allan: You have something of a reputation of being a technophobe on a personal level, is that fair?

Mr Blair: I am afraid that is fair actually, yes.

Q104 Mr Allan: It is. Have you ever visited the multi-million pound central government website that you have set up to get us all to use these new electronic government facilities?

Mr Blair: I think that is a very unfair question. The answer is no.

Q105 Mr Allan: Do you know the address of this multi-million pound project?

Mr Blair: No.

Q106 Mr Allan: Your head of e.government, Ian Watmore, would be able to tell you all about it.

Mr Blair: That is exactly why delegation is such an important part of the job of a prime minister.

To be fair, the last answer is right on the spot. But lets rewind and replay: Tony Blair is a technophobe. Not big news, you will say. Wait a minute.

P. 29 of my PhD read ?altohugh Blair is known as a techno-phobe rather than -enthusiast ? ‘. I had to rephrase as it was pointed out that there was not ?enough evidence?. Too late now I reckon, but the book will read ?although Blair is admittedly a techno-phobe rather than -enthusiast (Liaison Committee, 2005: q103)?. Much better. And: I told you so.

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I was down to the University of Surrey today, for a presentation to the new Department of Political, International and Policy Studies.

At the lunch break there was time to comment (among other things) on the large supply but relatively scarce demand for political science /
studies PhD graduates, recently. The large supply, I would have thought, depends on the capacity of the British PhD machine to train increasing numbers of national and interntional students(who are fleeing crumbling, underfunded or clientelar academic machines
elsewhere). And this I see as a big plus. And from the increasing prevalence of English as a second language in many European and non European countries (as Chris Flood noted). A plus of sorts, as foreign language teachers are not too happy. The scarce demand is more tricky to explain: too many ‘Associate Lecturers’ and TAs? Too long a time between one’s PhD and the first lecturing post (Post-docs, and post-post-docs) Low demand from students for Politics degree (not, it seems)? Open to debate.

The truly unexpected event of the day was my use of the word ’synergy’ which until today was in my index verborum proibitorum. It just came out. I should have swallowed my tougue instead. But alas, there’s worse words. Uhm, such as?

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