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Coming this fall: Remix
This is (I expect) the last book I'll write in this field. Dedicated to Lyman Ray Patterson and Jack Valenti, it pushes three ideas -- (1) that this war on our kids has got to stop, (2) that we need to celebrate (and support) the rebirth of a remix culture, and (3) that a new form of business (what I call the "hybrid") will flourish as we better enable this remix creativity.
I wrote this book last year. Many of the themes were described in 18 minutes in my TED talk. I am very eager to have it out.
You can get notified when it is out on Amazon.
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How much RMS has won
Just returning from the iCommons Summit in Sapporo, Japan. The Free Beer project made a showing, with a locally brewed version. But this ad caught my eye: "Free Beer" for "500 yen."
We're now at the stage where (at least some) the RMS conception of "free" is clear enough so that even "free beer" is "free as in free speech" such that a price running with the free beer seems (again, to a select set no doubt) perfectly natural.
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And the virtual barnraising continues: next step: to the wiki
I posted the last post thanking Theo Armour for his html version of A Declaration for Independence just before getting on the plane in Tokyo. When I arrived back in the states, I received two revisions of his revision.
The first, by Ben Kerney, corrects some character encoding problems, and places the text is a clearer outline frame.
The second, by Matthew Levine, also corrects the character encoding problem, and very nicely fits the typography of the pdf version.
Both version also cleaned up a problem with the notes. But upon my return, I found another version from Theo Armour fixing the problem with the notes. (I've replaced the original version in the original post with this version as well).
Ok, so first, thank you to all for the help. But now let's move the revisions to the wiki. I have used a simple html2wiki conversion tool to create a draft on wiki.lessig.org. The wiki's spam filter choked on the notes, so the first major fix would be a fix for the notes. But then I'm eager to see how the substance develops.
The link on the wiki is wiki.lessig.org/Declaration4Independence.
Meanwhile, I'll probably build a v2.0 of this Declaration, building on the ideas of the wiki and other ideas I've collection. But for now, thank you again to everyone who helped seed this for the web.
Update: Here also is a LaTeX version. (Thanks, Valentin!)
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Why I like the Net: An html version of the Declaration
Thanks to Theo Armour for cleaning up the html version of my Declaration for Independence. You can see his version here.
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Regarding Stevens: The Economy of Influence that is DC
On the Change-Congress.orgblog, I've got a piece about the absurdity in this prosecution of Senator Ted Stevens: On Tuesday, Senator Ted Stevens was indicted by federal prosecutors for failing to report gifts he had received from an oil company to help him renovate his Alaskan home. The charges were not a surprise, though official Washington mustered its collective, and requisite outrage. Senators Dole and Sununu were quick to return campaign contributions from the now-tainted Stevens. Editorials across the nation were quick to condemn the obvious graft targeted by the government.
But I confess, I don't get it. Not that I don't see the wrong in what Stevens has done. That's obvious. What's not obvious to me is why this wrong is so different from everything else that DC thinks is right. Read more, there.
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