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It looks like someone has been reading Brandon’s work!
Slashdot today is looking at the latest and baddest botnet, Kraken and how it might be stopped using a few tricks from our own Brandon Wiley. This is linked back to a previous discussion on the same topic back in February where Curious Yellow is [...]

This Saturday is World Intellectual Property Day, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Intellectual_Property_Day.  Go out and pirate something!  Or even better, publish something to the web under a Creative Commons license, more info here.

Peer to Peer networks have had a huge impact on how New Media studies have progressed, how individuals consume and companies think about their markets. This talk gives you low down on how peer-to-peer networks function, how they are being used and how they came to be.  Brandon Wiley (2nd to talk) gives a stunning [...]

Linden Labs is bringing Second Life one step closer to Gibson’s Snow Crash’s Metaverse:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/14/controlling-secondli.html
Time to start practicing my samurai swordplay.

Last Friday we put on the second in a series of three talks on New Media.  The topic of the evening was Online Communities and in just over an hour we were able to travel all the way from IRC to browser based multiplayer games and wound up at a car show.
If you missed the [...]

I have something meatier I wanted to use as my first post, but this is simply too good to pass up.  Apple’s iTunes music store was officially the largest seller of music in America, period, for the month of January.  LAPD better stock up on snow shovels to get all the bits of music executive [...]

If you have not checked out “Good Copy, Bad Copy”, I highly recommend you make your way over creativecommons.org
This  piece asks and answers many of the questions that people have been asking me about for the past year.  Lawrence Lessig, DJ Danger Mouse and the head of the MPAA are just some of the people [...]