Category Archives: Interviews

Katrina vanden Heuvel On The Daily Show

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Here’s a great Daily Show interview from last month with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor-in-chief of “The Nation“.
I had saved this on my TIVO and sort of forgotten about it until I ran across Katrina’s name again reading Michael Moore‘s latest book. (She’s on his dream list of women presidents.)
In the interview, Katrina talks about democracy and freedom of speech and political debate and how there really isn’t any anymore.
Jon Stewart is obviously concerned about the state of our country these days. It’s so great for him to have important guests like this on television. I only hope that more people will watch.
I think you will find it interesting.
QuickTime video and MP3 audio files below:
Katrina vanden Heuvel on the Daily Show

Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel – Low-res 28 MB
Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel – Med-res 42 MB
Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel – Hi-res 55 MB
Audio – Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel – MP3 6MB

Howard Rheingold On Smart Mobs and the Next Social Revolution

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A Howard Rheingold Trading Card

I went to see Howard Rheingold speak at some bookstore on the Haight a few nights ago — I’ve read excerpts from a friend of mine’s copy of Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, and I can already highly recommend it.

Howard also recently did an interview on the well too.

This is not to say that smart mobs are wise mobs.
Not all groups who use new technologies to organize
collective action have socially beneficial ends in
mind. Criminals, totalitarian governments,
spammers, will all be able to take advantage of
new capabilities — just as the first to take
advantage of tribes, nation-states, markets,
networks included the malevolent as well as the
cooperative.

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New Interview for Creative Commons: Doc Searls

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My new interview with Doc Searls has just been published on the Creative Commons website, along with information about the upcoming December 16th launch!

Doc Searls: Featured Commoner

I think we need to develop a new vernacular understanding of what licensing is. . . . I mean there have always been tacit agreements about what we can and can’t do with stuff — agreements we’ve understood intuitively. Now we need to be much more explicit, because the range of actions that can be taken with our public works is not only much larger, but often committed in digital form, which allows us to be much more specific about the agreements involved…
… I believe there is a crying need for a public conversation about the licensing of artistic works, and for our vocabulary to have the richest and most specific possible bases. That’s why the work Creative Commons does is so important and welcome by attempting to scaffold a new set of commons-native relationships between creators and customers.

First Creative Commons Interview: Rick Prelinger

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Our first Creative Commons’ interview is up on the website:
Rick Prelinger.
(Keeper of the Prelinger Archives, which have just been accepted into the Library of Congress.

Through our partnership with the Internet Archive, my images are just going out all over the world. They are achieving a level of spread and penetration I could never do on my own. And therefore, I think that giving things away ends up benefiting me. You know, these images don’t get used up. They don’t get yellow around the edges. They don’t become less valuable from being shown and repeated. Ubiquity equals value. That’s how I think you can make money by giving things away.

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Lawrence Lessig Interview In Darwin

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Lawrence Lessig on the future of patents (or lack thereof):
Who Should Own What?, by Todd Datz.
Also of particular interest is this mention of the MP3 patent, which media player developers will need to keep on radar.

That’s the one that’s most obvious and direct. Another threat is patents that we’ve been seeing recently, from the absurd British Telecom patent on hyperlinking to the way in which the MP3 patent is now being deployed against people who build players or record MP3s and to the way patents have been used in standards-making processes. You have these groups that get together to build a standard that other people can use and adopt. Secretly, one of the participants in the standards-making process early on files a patent for the basic idea. Nobody knows the patent has been filed because you don’t have to reveal that information. Once the standard is out there and adopted, the company comes forward and says, “I have a patent on that standard and you’ve got to pay me to use it.”

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