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You should watch these videos. Certainly, there’s some “cheese” here, but if you forget about the devices and think about the concept, you’ll see where Web 3.0 is likely to take us.

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
Web 1.0 was about web pages; Web 2.0 was, among other things, about the rise of web [...]

I’m closing in on a year of using Twitter, seven months with Jaiku… and I’ve enjoyed the element of presence these applications afford - the vicarious enjoyment I get from the snapshots into the lives of my friends, many of whom live across the country.
I talk to some of these people regularly on the phone [...]

Coyote Run Farm
Originally uploaded by toddmundt

Chuck and I did the Iowa Farm Crawl yesterday, driving south of Des Moines about 45 minutes to a small group of farms, clustered near each other, which supply much of our food during the growing season. Chuck knows some of these folks well, since he’s out the door at [...]

The 13th annual DTV Symposium is under way in Des Moines. Iowa Public Television runs the symposium, which has acquired a reputation for bringing together some of the best technological thinking in public and commercial media.
I wasn’t able to get out of Minneapolis (PRPD) until this morning, but I got in just in time for [...]

Sometimes I write posts here that are less public statements than “waves of thinking” about a particular issue that I’m pushing around in my head. This is one of them. In other words, this is mainly about gathering the wisdom of others and ruminating. Add your own thoughts if you’d like.
Dennis Haarsager consistently fires on [...]

Note: this is very much a working document. It’s a snapshot of a “living” line of reasoning and is likely to evolve over time. This began as a collection of my thoughts, but it’s been improved immeasurably by Mark Fuerst of iMA; I sent this to him and at least a third of this document [...]

Keynote: Reinventing the Gatekeeper
James Boyle, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School
We’re bad at predicting the future of technology; we have to understand that and the policy implications of it.
The inability to see the potential of commons-based media: we are blind to the opportunities this kind of media offers at every [...]

From “On Demand Media,” a “media world of de-materialization,”
where the concept of ‘property’ loses significance for consumers. Media companies’ response to the widespread availability of pirated content seems to be to concentrate on the experience, which is spot on. As I’ve argued many times before, consumers don’t consume content: they engage in practices around it, [...]

One of the reasons I started this weblog after years of wondering whether I should bother with one or not was because I hoped that I could write something from time to time that people would read and find interesting. The second reason why I started this weblog was that I want it to be [...]

At the NCTA show, TW President and COO Jeff Bewkes, told programmers they should offer their entire schedules on VOD - free. Bewkes todl those attending that they’d make their money from advertising revenues; and he pithced it as a way to preverve cable from newer platform competitors. Bewkes told the networks they should do [...]

via Dennis Haarsager, over at Technology 360, a piece of wisdom that should be a wake up call to all of us in public media - from Yahoo’s Tom Coates:
“… I think we’re approaching a world in which a near-live media distribution environment will be a major partner to broadcast TV within five-ten years. This [...]

Via Technology 360:
The BBC’s director of new media and technology has outlined the results of the 5,000 user test of the BBC integrated media player, which delivered a selection of BBC programs to users over a peer-to-peer network.
A couple of notable findings from the test: first, users lost access to many of the programs they [...]