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The Impact of Kickstarter, Creative Commons & Creators Project | Off Book

by Dan on March 28, 2012

The latest installment of the PBS short documentary series Off Book looks at how interconnectivity is changing the funding and sharing of creative projects:

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The Evolution of Music Online | Off Book

by Dan on January 12, 2012

Related to the previous, the latest PBS Arts Off Book documentary short is about the massive changes that have occurred in the music industry in the last twenty years as a result of new technology and the Internet:

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PressPausePlay

January 12, 2012

The full-length documentary PressPausePlay is now available to watch on Vimeo. The film, which somehow manages to be simultaneously both inspiring and melancholic, looks at the effects of digital technology and the Internet on the creative economy. Worth watching if you have a spare hour (although depending on your attitude to these things it might make you [...]

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Jason Fried on Rework

March 23, 2011

In a recent interview for CBC Radio show Spark, Jason Fried, the founder of 37signals, talked with Nora Young about his book Rework: CBC RADIO SPARK: JASON FRIED | REWORK Also doing the rounds is Fried’s article ‘How to Get Good at Making Money’: People are happy to pay for things that work well. Never [...]

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Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media

March 12, 2011

James Fallows, veteran journalist and author of Breaking the News, has a lengthy article in The Atlantic on Gawker and the effect of digital media on journalism: One by one, the buffers between what people want and what the media can afford to deliver have been stripped away. Broadcast TV was deregulated, and cable and [...]

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