Topic: Media

What is remixing? Is there a difference between hacking and remixing? Why is either concept important? In his keynote address at the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Rael Dorfest, CTO of O'Reilly Media, answers these questions through an examination of the potential impact that the "remix culture" can have on business, innovation, the Internet, and the customer interaction.

Media is a Platform. Discuss. Under Web 1.0, eyeballs were king and old media was dead. But as the Web 2.0 era unfolds, we're learning that things are a bit more complicated, and media is evolving, slowly but surely, into new forms and formats. How can powerful brands like the New York Times thrive in an age where content is understood to be free? What happens when the web is capable of distributing massive video files effortlessly and without significant economic impact? What are the new publishing models emerging on the web, and how can media be used as a platform to leverage them? [Web 2.0 Conference audio on IT Conversations]

The music-industry incumbents are threatened by the new technologies of music distribution. How are they reacting, and how are musicians using the Internet on their own to make more money for themselves? In this interview with two music-industry insiders, Dave Slusher discovers the current state of digital music and possible courses for the future. David Kusek and Gerd Leonhard are the authors of the new book "The Future of Music" from Berklee Press. Kusek is a musician, co-inventor of electronic drums and the MIDI standard, and is currently vice-president of Berklee Music. Leonhard is a music futurist and entrepeneur, former CEO of LicenseMusic.com, and is currently CEO of the ThinkAndLink advisory agency.

In this True Voice show, Stowe talks with Peter Quintas (CTO of Silkroad technology) and Peter Kaminski (CTO of Socialtext), exchanging observations about the ACS Innovation Summit, which was devoted to social networking and social media. The discussion starts there -- reviewing some of the very advanced projects that ACS and other non-profits, such as the March of Dimes, have conducted using blogs. The three then discuss the growing adoption of blogs and other social media, as well as coming features planned for the two technology companies' products. [True Voice audio from IT Conversations]

IT Conversations' host Doug Kaye interviews Marc Canter and JD Lasica who have just launched Ourmedia.org. [Behind the Mic audio interview from IT Conversations]

"Simulation, Agents, and Accelerating Change: Personality Capture and the Linguistic User Interface," presented by John Smart at Accelerating Change 2004: One of the most important accelerating transitions occuring today is the emergence of the Linguistic User Interface or LUI. What will Windows (and the Google Browser) of 2015 look like? It seems clear that it will include sophisticated software simulations of human beings as part of the interface. First-world culture today spends more on video games than movies. These "interactive motion picture" technologies are more compelling and educating, particularly to our youth, the fastest-learning segment of society, than any linear scripts, no matter how professionally produced. [Audio from IT Conversations]

Dan Gillmor, author of "We, the Media: Journalism By and For the People" and former Business and Technology Columnist for the San Jose Mercury News at the Accelerating Change 2004 Conference:

Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, changing it from lecture to conversation. Dan Gillmor discusses the importance of this emerging phenomenon, a deep shift in how we make and consume the news. We the Media is essential reading for all participants in the news cycle: Consumers learn how they can become producers of the news through web journals (weblogs or blogs), Internet chat groups, email, and cell phones. [Accelerating Change 2004 Conference audio from IT Conversations]

Dave Slusher interviews John Buckman, the founder of Magnatune Records, on Voices in Your Head on IT Conversations. Magnatune Records is an online record label with the slogan "We Are Not Evil." As a company, Magnatune has embraced Creative Commons licensing, internet streaming and distribution of music, and introduced innovations such as customer-chosen pricing for albums. As of this writing, their catalog consists of 185 artists with 356 albums available and climbing. In this interview we discuss his motivations in forming Magnatune, his experiences and surprises in the first years of operation, the potentials for online distribution of music, and much more.

It's an all-new series -- a collaboration of Corante and IT Conversations. In this True Voice show, Stowe Boyd talks with Darren Barefoot and Jeremy Wright, two now-famous professional bloggers who originally met by selling their blogging services via eBay. The show was recorded at the Vancouver NorthernVoice conference, and centered on the topic "The Profession of Blogging". What does it mean to be a professional blogger? How is blogging distinct from journalism or corporate PR? What are the ethics of professional blogging? [Audio from IT Conversations]

"Real-Time Filmmaking on OS X," by Sean Fitzroy and Vikki Merriman, winners of the 2003 Boston 48 Hour Film Project competition. They explain the role of Mac OS X and Apple software and hardware in making an award-winning short film in just 48 hours. [IT Conversations audio from the Mac OS X Conference]