Aanstaande maandag presenteert Colin het seminar Social Media 2.0, de digitale snelweg naar succes. Op 22 februari in Zaal 16 te Tilburg zullen zo’n 110 deelnemers getuige zijn van een reeks presentaties van nieuwe, innovatieve manieren van social media. Gedurende deze middag gaan de sprekers Joost Heijthuijsen (Incubate), Maxim Schram (RedesignMe B.V.), Jojanneke van den [...]

The 26th of November Joost will be speaking at Kom Je Ook in Amsterdam, organized by Mediamatic. The ‘public as programmer’ is the focus of this third edition of Kom je Ook? (Are You Coming Too?). It’s a program with foreign speakers like Fiona Romeo (Head of Digital Media at the National Maritime Museum and [...]

First of all I would like to thank Incubate for inviting Andrew Keen to the Incubate Innovation Lecture. Andrew Keen gave a clear lecture about his vision on Internet issues. He raised some legitimate questions about the future of western art in a civilization were nobody pays for an artwork. He states that the digital [...]

I’m from an era where the parents taught us to be modest: What you do is only good enough when others notice and compliment you and of course tell others about it.
Then you could conclude that expressing yourself on the internet is something for younger people or not done?
I doubt that! It’s more or less, [...]

Copyright killed the video star from Kicks for Free on Vimeo.
They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine and new technology
And now I understand the problems you can see
Oh-a oh. You might have heard of the new Buma/Stemra law called Fair Play. They will charge the whole Dutch web community for embedding musicclips. [...]

Today Dutch copyright organization Buma launched the Fair Play license. They charge blogs for embedding. It’s like calling Vinnie Jones an elegant soccer star. Read more on it here. This new law would mean the death of blogs like this. Of blogs that promote culture and don’t make any money out of it. We hope [...]

Bijgespijkerd posted the first two videos about the Incubate Innovation Lecture with the keynote speech by Andrew Keen. If you want to see the discussion that happened afterwards, just see the other three vids here.

Keynote speech Andrew Keen at Incubate 2009 (part 1 of 5) from Incubate Tilburg on Vimeo.

Keynote speech Andrew Keen at Incubate [...]

Old versus new cultural radicalism from andrewkeen on Vimeo.

Amelia Andersdotter of Sweden’s Pirate Party from andrewkeen on Vimeo.

Dutch Pirates from andrewkeen on Vimeo.
Last week Andrew Keen did his Incubate Innovation Lecture. It was great. Later this week we’ll post the recordings. Keen also interviewed some people. Check them right here.

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Tomorrow we’ll be doing a little presentation for the Dutch Theatre and Festival Directors, called VSCD at Zeeland Nazomer Festival. Gonna be a nice one. Find out more on this event right here.

Yesterday Andrew Keen wrote an essay on why artists are poor. Ernesto Priego gave a very good reaction on it. The outline is:
1. Artists cannot expect to survive in the 21st century without doing their own promotion (this means also giving work for free).
2. This does not mean [...]