Monthly Archives: May 2008

Xanadu and the Internet Memetics

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 26 May 2008

On May 26th 2008, Alex declared “Xanadu and the Internet Memetics” a great band name. So, if y’all steal it, I’m calling Creative Commons on you!
But, really, in this post I want to discuss Internet memes. Not in full — that was done well enough at ROFLCon, though the conversation will continue, especially at ROFLCon [...]

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Zuneral: The Death of DRM

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 25 May 2008

Yesterday, Harvard Free Culture held a funeral service, or Zuneral, for Digital Rights Management — one that was, according to Dean Jansen, “part viking, part mafia, and part probably something else.” Four members of HFC encased a Zune and an iPod in a bucket of cement, performed a memorial and eulogy, and put a physical [...]

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Berkman@10: Networking

By Alex Leavitt | Published: 23 May 2008

Me playing Rock Band with Charlie Nesson, et al., courtesy of the Berkman Center @ Flickr
I’ve already discussed the social tools used (or overused, or underused?) during Berkman@10, but of course as at any conference much real networking occurred as well. Not one particularly adept as networking in any sense, I did meet an excellent [...]

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    The Department of Alchemy approaches American, Japanese, and international digital culture from a critical, analytical (and sometimes quite academic) perspective.
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    See me speak at Penny Arcade Expo East in Boston, MA, from March 26th - 28th, 2010.


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