Oral Tradition, Pastiche, The Mashup and Copyright

Human beings take information and media, consume it, mash it up and spew it back out again, it’s what we do. We have a fine tradition of nicking each others content from the earliest times of tribal campfires, embroidering hunter and warriors stories and oral traditions, through to Plato deliberately putting his own words in…

Report: How US TV Networks use Web 2.0 (from a search point of view)

We love white papers. Here’s a smidgen of the report on US TV websites by search engine company 360i. “Tuning into Emerging Media: How Broadcast and Cable TV Shows Use Blogs, the Mobile Web, Mashups and Other Media,” a new report from 360i, provides insight into the extent by which TV networks embrace various forms…

This ‘n That video (or Why Not To Kid Your Customers)

An interesting enough video on it’s own – and it’s been seen 3 million times, favourited 13,500 times and 6000 comments. But perhaps what we should pay attention to, are the 95 video responses to this ThisNThat Video and another one, Colour Monte (same trick). They have names like This N That revealed, This-n-that spoiler,…

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