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 history of the P2P scene, below is his presentation.
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 talk, or just wanted to get a second taste, we have the full video of the event up on the web at:
Hope you can make it to the third talk this Friday!
Correction from milsyobtaf: Apparently nervousness and general confusion led me to call the Metaverse a product of William Gibson during the talk. I meant Neal Stephenson, of course. Sigh.
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 off of the sidewalks. Apple passes Wal-Mart, Now #1 Music Retailer in US
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 you will hear from. I do not sit and watch films very often, but this was a great watch!
