Dan Gillmor is director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship and Kauffman Professor of Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication. The project aims to help students appreciate the startup culture of risk-taking, and to foster new media products and services.
Dan is also director of the Center for Citizen Media, a project to enhance and expand grassroots media and its reach. The center is an affiliate of ASI and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He is author of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People" (O'Reilly Media, 2004), a book that explains the rise of citizens' media and why it matters.
From 1994 until early 2005 Dan was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont. During 2005 he worked on media projects at Grassroots Media Inc.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont, Gillmor received a Herbert Davenport fellowship in 1982 for economics and business reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. During the 1986-87 academic year he was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards. Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.
For for info, visit the Center for Citizen Media
Who: DJ Spooky
Date: Friday, February 8, 2008
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Great Hall of the Carolina Union
Turntables, technology and music theory will collide when Paul D. Miller, better known as DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, presents a discussion/demonstration preceding his world premiere performance of "Video Soul: Wattstax to the Avant Garde."
The lecture/demo will take place on Friday February 8 at 3 pm in Great Hall of the Carolina Union. The World Premiere of "Video Soul" will follow on Saturday evening February 9 at Duke University.
During his multimedia presentation, Miller will use historical texts and rare audio and film recordings to illustrate the history of digital art and media. Using the DJ's mix as a template, he will discuss how today's artists can rearrange the cultural ideas and objects that bombard us to produce something new and expressive. Miller will also discuss technology's impact on DJ culture and the issues that arise from it, such as intellectual property rights and ownership of ideas.
UNC Chapel Hill sponsoring organizations include: Department of Art, University Program in Cultural Studies, School of Information and Library Science's Open Video Project, Carolina Union Activities Board, Carolina Free Culture and ibiblio.org with additional support from Department of English and a grant from the Performing Arts and Special Activities Fund.
Who: Cliff Missen
Date: Monday, February 4, 2008
Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Pleasants Family Room, Wilson Library
THE WIDERNET PROJECT
Launched in 2000, the WiderNet Project, a service program based at the University of Iowa School of Library and Information Science, is improving digital communications in developing countries.
The project trains computer technicians and coaches decision-makers at universities in the developing world, providing on-site hands-on training, cutting-edge research on information technology issues facing the developing world, and donating new and refurbished computer equipment to partner universities. Over 3,600 technicians, decision makers, and librarians have been through our training programs across Africa.
The WiderNet Project also provides millions of digital educational resources to those without adequate Internet connectivity via the innovative eGranary Digital Library.
More information about the project can be found at: http://www.widernet.org
Who: Bob Young, founder of Lulu.com, Lulu.tv and Red hat
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location: Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Room 103
Entrepreneurs can be found in all fields of human activity, not just business. The common characteristic of Entrepreneurs, and most humans for that matter, is they eventually get tired of just listening and throwing things at the television set, or the pompous Professor at the front of the room, or their software supplier, and instead decide one day to do something about it. This explains Paul Jones and Ibiblio, it explains Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds of the free-software-open-source-gnu-linux movement, and it explains Lulu. It also explains the number 42.
Bob Young is the founder and CEO of Lulu.com, the premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 100,000 recently published titles and more than 2,500 new titles added each week, created by people in 80 different countries.
Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young's most recent endeavour. The success of this company has earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the "Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006" and was ranked as the fourth "Top Entrepreneur for 2006," both by Silicon.com.
In 1993 Young co-founded Red Hat, the open source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat has evolved into a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft and Sun. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week's "Top Entrepreneurs" in 1999.
Facebook, Myspace ... whether you have 1,000 online "friends" or don't quite understand the appeal, online social networking is impacting your world. What's the inside story? "Do You REALLY Know Facebook?" is the first in a series of free Current Science Forums at MPSC. To open the forum, Fred shares some news about where these online tools are going.
Fred Stutzman is a doctoral student and instructor in UNC's School of Information and Library Science, the co-founder of ClaimID.com AND an expert quoted in Newsweek magazine's September cover story on Facebook.
The June 2007 meeting of the Triangle Linux Users Group was held at 7pm, June 14, at Red Hat on the Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University. The speaker was Sapna Kumar, who spoke about the GNU General Public License version 3. She discussed changes in GPL v.3 and what they mean for hackers, infighting that has been going on inside the open source community and how v.3 deals with the growing threat of software patents.
Sapna Kumar is a faculty fellow at Duke University Law School. Her areas of interest include open source software, patent reform in biotechnology, and federal agency law. Prior to coming to Duke, she was in private practice, focusing on patent litigation and software licensing.
Molly Bragg of Internet Archive talks about the Archive-It subscription service. And Dan Avery is talking about "The Web is a Mess!" in which he explains the Archive-It crawler and how he learned to stop worrying and love the web.
"The purpose of this event is to bring in experts from academia, business, and government--in the fields of security, data collection, data mining, and privacy--together in a forum where they may share with a local audience their perspectives, concerns, ideas, and sometimes competing interests. We hope to explore the fundamental ethical and practical concerns with regard to data collection, sharing, and retention within the private sector--and between the private sector and government--and to help shed light on important current events."
For more information on the Security and Liberty Forum, visit their website.
Please note that due to a technical problem, only part of the conference program is available as video here.
The slides from the talk may be found on slideshare. More information about Intellagirl may be found on her website, intellagirl.com
Bob is involved in the Open Document Format standard, Eclipse, WebSphere, Second Life, The IBM Open Patents Pledge, and more. See his very active personal blog.
From Cory's Wikipedia bio:
Cory Doctorow is a blogger, journalist and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing. He is in favor of liberalizing copyright laws, and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, and uses some of their licenses for his books. Some common themes of his work include digital rights management, file sharing, Disney, and post-scarcity economics.
Dan Gillmor, founder of Grassroots Media Inc., is working on a project to encourage and enable more citizen-based media. This weblog is devoted to the discussion of the issues facing grassroots journalism as it grows into an important force in society.
Dan is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People, a 2004 book that is widely credited as the first comprehensive look at way the collision of technology and journalism is transforming the media landscape.
From 1994-2004, Dan was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont, Dan received a Herbert Davenport fellowship in 1982 for economics and business reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. During the 1986-87 academic year he was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards.
Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.
boyd, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Information, explores how young people negotiate the presentation of self in online mediated contexts. Her research focuses on how this young audience engages with "digital publics" - connected social spaces such as MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga and YouTube.
Currently, boyd is a Graduate Fellow at the USC Anneberg Center, and social media researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley. Her recent work has explored diverse topics such as the creation of digital publics in Myspace.com (Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace), the design of culturally adaptive software (G/localization: When Global Information and Local Interaction Collide), and the exploration of folksonomy (HT06, Tagging Paper, Taxonomy, Flickr, Academic Article, ToRead).
At Berkeley, boyd is advised by Peter Lyman and Mimi Ito. She holds an M.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied with Judith Donath at the Media Lab, and a B.A. from Brown University. boyd is frequently cited in top media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, NPR and Salon.com. She even went toe-to-toe with scary old Bill O'Reilly once. boyd blogs at www.zephoria.org/thoughts/, a must-read destination for those interested in social technology.
Jimmy 'Jimbo' Wales setup the Wikipedia project in early 2001. The project has now grown into the largest freely available online encyclopedia and is available in more than 100 languages.
In mid-2003, Wales set up the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, to support Wikipedia and its sister projects. Wales is the foundation's president and chairman of the board.
Wales was appointed as fellow of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School earlier this year.
Dan Gillmor, founder of Grassroots Media Inc., is working on a project to encourage and enable more citizen-based media. This weblog is devoted to the discussion of the issues facing grassroots journalism as it grows into an important force in society.
Dan is author of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People, a 2004 book that is widely credited as the first comprehensive look at way the collision of technology and journalism is transforming the media landscape.
From 1994-2004, Dan was a columnist at the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper, and wrote a weblog for SiliconValley.com. He joined the Mercury News after six years with the Detroit Free Press. Before that, he was with the Kansas City Times and several newspapers in Vermont.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Vermont, Dan received a Herbert Davenport fellowship in 1982 for economics and business reporting at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. During the 1986-87 academic year he was a journalism fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he studied history, political theory and economics. He has won or shared in several regional and national journalism awards.
Before becoming a journalist he played music professionally for seven years.
A gathering of North Carolina bloggers to discuss websites, community building, podcasting and more. A follow-up to the highly successful Piedmont Bloggers Conference in August 2004. (Background here and here) Share the Press Release. (text taken from mister sugar)
Clifford A. Lynch has been the Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation, where he managed the MELVYL information system and the intercampus internet for the University. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lynch currently serves on the Internet 2 Applications Council and the National Research Council Committee on Intellectual Property in the Emerging Information Infrastructure.
The Coalition for Networked Information (www.cni.org), jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. (Biography taken from http://www.asu.edu/ecure/2005/lynch/LynchClifford_bio.html)
On November 7, 1994, WXYC-FM (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) became the first radio station in the world to offer a live Internet simulcast of an off-air signal.
In honor of the tenth anniversary of this pioneering event, we brought together a panel discussion, featuring the team who initially implemented the stream: Paul Jones, David McConville and Michael Shoffner. Additionally, the panel featured John Streck of NCSU's Centaur Lab, and was moderated by WXYC DJ Bret Dougherty.
This event capped off a weekend of festivites celebrating the 10th anniversary of streaming. Other notable items include the creation of a commemorative CD, which can be downloaded for free from WXYC's site.
The link to the panel discussion is at left. A very special thanks goes to audioactivism.org's Brian Russell, who provided the recording eqipment.
Doc Searls is a writer and speaker on topics that arise where technology and business meet.
He is the Senior Editor of Linux Journal, the premier Linux monthly and one of the world's leading technology magazines. He also runs the new Doc Searls' IT Garage, an online journal published by Linux Journal's parent company, SSC.
He is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Borders Books and Amazon.com bestseller. (It was Amazon's #1 sales & marketing bestseller for thirteen months and sells around the world in nine languages.)
He also writes Doc Searls Weblog. J.D. Lasica of Annenberg's Online Journalism Review calls Doc "one of the deep thinkers in the blog movement." Doc's blog is consistently listed among the top few blogs, out of millions — by Technorati, Blogstreet and others.
Doc's marketing background dates from 1978, when he co-founded Hodskins Simone and Searls, which became one of Silicon Valley's leading advertising and public relations agencies. (HS&S was sold to Publicis Technology in early 1998.) Doc's marketing consultancy, The Searls Group, began as the public relations side of HS&S. Over the years he has worked with Hitachi, Sun, Apple, Nortel, Borland, ArrayComm , Motorola and other leading companies, in addition to many start-ups.
Cory Doctorow is Outreach Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group of
passionate people
dedicated to protecting constitutional rights and advocating on
behalf of free
expression in the digital age. He works on policy research,
participates in
standards bodies, and works to enlist the support of other
organizations in EFF's
issues.
Cory is the author of several books and short stories, including
Down and
Out in the Magic
Kingdom, Science Fiction Writing For Dummies, and
the Nebula
nominated "OwnzOred".
His new book, Eastern
Standard Tribe, is due out in April, 2004.
Read more at corydoctorow.com,
craphound.com,
and
boingboing.net
Robin 'Roblimo' Miller is Editor-in-Chief for OSDN,
one of the world's leading online tech
news publishers. He has written extensively about computers and
the Internet for Slashdot, Linux.com, NewsForge, Time New Media, Online
Journalism Review, Web Hosting Magazine, The
Washington Post, The
Baltimore Sun, and many
other Web sites, newspapers, and magazines.
He is one of the creators of modern interactive journalism,
invented a self-serve online ad
sales system that eliminates virtually all sales costs, and has
served as an Internet
business consultant to several Fortune 500 companies and many
Internet entrepreneurs.
Before becoming a full-time writer and editor, Miller operated a
small limousine service
in the Baltimore/Washington area and wrote freelance part-time.
"I never intended to make
writing and editing a full-time profession," he says. "It was
purely accidental. There are
many more talented editors and writers out of work who could
easily replace me. I still
keep one limousine in my driveway just in case my bosses ever
figure this out."
Eben Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his "long, dark period" in New Haven. He began working as a professional computer programmer in 1973, at the age of fourteen. Before and during law school, from 1979-1984, he was a designer and developer of advanced computer programming languages (VSAPL, APL2, Pascal) at IBM's Santa Teresa Laboratory and Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
After law school he was a law clerk to Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School--and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel-Aviv University and the University of Virginia--since 1987. From 1991-1994 he represented Philip R. Zimmerman, the author of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) in connection with a potential criminal prosecution by the United States Government.
Since 1993 he has served without fee as General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation, and has represented numerous clients in the free software world. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.
Presented by ibiblio. Co-sponsored by the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Provost, College of Arts and Sciences, School of Law, and the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science.
Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig was also a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. More recently, Professor Lessig represented web site operator Eric Eldred in the ground-breaking case Eldred v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act. Lessig was named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing "against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online."
He is the author of The Future of Ideas and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He also chairs the Creative Commons project. Professor Lessig is a boardmember of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a Board Member of the Center for the Public Domain, and a Commission Member of the Penn National Commission on Society, Culture and Community at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Lessig earned a BA in economics and a BS in management from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA in philosophy from Cambridge, and a JD from Yale.
Professor Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace. He is currently planning a course, Law and Virtual Worlds, for Spring 2003 with Julian Dibbell.