As we begin the Lent season together, we're also beginning a new Creative Commons Project; this project serves as a focused creative outlet for the changes we are experiencing as we walk through the calendar year. With Lent, we're creating a practice we're calling 40 Words. In its most b...

What a tasteless and offensive question, you think. Let me correct that misunderstanding. Don't look upon arseholes as second-class organs. If you did not have one, you'll be full of shit. If gods don't have the hole, boy, then they surely have accumulated all the crap since the beginning of time. I...

When prices are artificially inflated beyond the market price for a product a black market is created to meet the actual Demand for a product at the price that is right for consumers. When tickets for a sporting event are too high they have extra that are sold outside the stadium below ticket price....

Schaffte es bereits in zahlreiche Magazine: Netlabel-Shooting-Star Julia Kotowski Einblick in die erfolgreichen Machenschaften eines Netlabels | aaahh records pflegt den Fan. Musik gibt es bei dem Vorzeige-Netlabel nicht nur auf die Ohren, sondern Musik verstehen die Label-Betreiber als sozialen Pro...

Word reached me through the grapevine that Facebook has altered its terms of service (that legalese you don’t read when you sign up) to essentially grant itself a perpetual and all-encompassing right to use any content you upload to the site for all time, even when you delete your account: You...

So, I was on the bus the other day, cheerfully folding away and rocking out to an old Bowie/Eno song and got to thinking about culture. The song was ostensibly about culture, you see — Bowie says: It’s not as truly hostile about Americans as say “Born in the U.S.A.”: it’...

. WHAT DOES COPYRIGHT MEAN, ANY MORE? WHEN EVERYTHING IS AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE, HOW CAN ANYONE CLAIM TO OWN ANYTHING? Creative Commons And The NY Times Decide Our Fate: Will It Be Love Or Money? Much as we all love downloading free movies and music, porn and software, and browsing the libraries and ...

. WHAT DOES COPYRIGHT MEAN, ANY MORE? WHEN EVERYTHING IS AVAILABLE FREE ONLINE, HOW CAN ANYONE CLAIM TO OWN ANYTHING? Creative Commons And The NY Times Decide Our Fate: Will It Be Love Or Money? Much as we all love downloading free movies and music, porn and software, and browsing the libraries and ...

Our friend and unindicted co-conspirator, origamijoel, said that to me recently and it sounded immensely wise. Joel is a soft-spoken man with an air of affable gravitas and he often says things that strike me as being immensely wise. It’s just his way. When we were sitting on the concrete on 2...

A couple of days ago we wrote about Soulja Boy, and how the young rapper’s use of social media was a blueprint for the future of the music industry. But Soulja Boy isn’t the only artist out there rewriting the rules and using the Internet to his advantage: let’s not forget about Ni...