bTween 2008 Notes

bTween 2008 Notes

Cory Doctorow
DRM
Net/Computer perfect tool
George Lucas Encrypt Tool
Being able to view content on your own terms
Own device
Fusilier
Teen hackers
Blue ray- code breakers
Intimidation from big companies doesn't work
Doesn't stop piracy
Is this progress?
Working piracy tool would be the same as a working spam filter. Doesn't exist!!
“Internet will never forget”
Universe ll access is not a bug
(access to content, tech- means of production)
Undermine the cost of production
New forms of media make us superhuman
Able to do more than one thing at a time
1937 Nobel Prize
Cheap collaboration
Firefox
Flckr- Tagging
Example, Abstract terms
“Decay” watching this tag on a daily basis. Creates a photo essay of the word.
Collaboration between people who've never met and have no idea they are working together.
“We built Google” we add the links, we've created the scematic underpinning of the web.
Most thing created online are shit. YouTube, blogger with three posts.
This is good because it means anyone can do it.
Lowering the cost of experimentation
Does your idea suck? Doesn't matter, do it/make it find out.
Three strikes rule for the entertainment industry
“Information economy” buying and selling
Exclusion information becoming harder.
Low cost collaboration, cheap equipment.
Fan engagement
Boing Boing $2,500 per month running costs
Publishers role-identify an audience with a writer
The internet takes over this role
Trivial material, such as blogs, explains our society.
Entertainment over friends.
Scribe (text flickr)
Pirates become admirals
1909 sound recording hearings
“Obscurity not piracy” Tim O'reily

A day in the life of a teens
Jellyellie/BBC Switch
Perception
Game tech
Overview tech/teen
Voice of MSN
Diary of tech/ what happens
Insight into a geneartion
Switch 12-17 year olds
BBC- role telling stories, the quality of the content
Grindstore, Bebo
Vox pops
How many things can a teen do at once? 16
Web net is not just one thing
Mobile tech even the difference between 12/13 and 16/17
Games, music
Consoles games design
Big Brother (Charlie Brookers Screenwipe)
Britains got talent
Bluejack.com
Jellieteens
BBC Switch
Boxed in teenage life
Experience of teens
“Gamechanger”(?)
audience participation
Live streaming 5-6pm

Media City (BBC 10%)

Muchsomedia
Orange “Making money via content”
BBC 10-20 pitches

Angel Gambino Bebo
Couple of hundred pitches
Make it clear in the first page(MA, ONE PAGERS)
Don't use bespoke tech, use existing tech where poss
Graffiti database

BBC
Sales funding

Matt Hanson
One Dot Zero
Remixing the traditional media
A Swarm of Angels
Wisdom of crowds
Open source
“The audience is obselete”

Ron Edwards
Virtual MTV.com
(Second Life esque)
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