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 [...]
A new and very interesting book called “Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers” was published last week. It was co-created by 470 strategy practitioners and should offer you “powerful, simple, tested tools for understanding, designing, reworking, and implementing business models.” Sounds good, right? We sure think so. If you’re interested, [...]
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.
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 [...]
It’s great to see that your work has actual effect in the real world. We’ve invited Andrew Keen to do a keynote on the role of cultural institutions in the digital age. We’ve also asked Hans Abbing for the panel. He is an economist, artist and sociologist. He is professor Emeritus in Art-Sociology at the [...]
Andrew Keen is a pioneering Silicon Valley entrepreneur, founding Audiocafe.com in 1995 and building it into a well-known first generation Internet music company. Then on a conference of internet entrepreneurs in 2004, mr. Keen realized that there was a dark side to the Utopian ideas about democratization of culture shared by the other participants in [...]
During the last months, one of the writers of Kicks for Free has done extensive research to the organizational preconditions for successfully working with social media and working open source. This research first describes different specific organizational preconditions, and might thus also be interesting for other organizations. After that, the analysis zooms in to the [...]
