Archive for December, 2006

Jennifer Urban: “Digital Rights Management is broken”

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Jennifer Urban: “Digital Rights Management is broken”: Jennifer Urban and Cory Doctorow spoke in tandem at the December 14 DIY Media seminar. I will post separate entries, although their presentations were closely related. “DRM is broken,” Urban declared, at the beginning of her talk about “Bits will never get harder to copy: the limits of [...]

Dabble Playlist Contest: Take the Dabble Challenge

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Dabble Playlist Contest: Take the Dabble Challenge: Dabble, my company, is running a playlist challenge contest. Details are here, and today’s challenge is for playlists on funny animals. There is a challenge each day where winners each get a tshirt and entry into the finals. On Dec 31, the finals made by the winners from [...]

Conference: Rethinking Television Histories

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Conference: Rethinking Television Histories: The Video Active project is hosting a conference on Television History: Video Active’s content selection strategy will be informed by the input of a wide range of television history scholars. For this purpose a conference will be held in April 2007 at Royal Holloway, Universty of London: Rethinking Television Histories: Digitising [...]

Online Video and the Future of Broadcasting