Author Archives: Globalism
More video.
It’s great having spent much of the past two months working on a project to then be able to knock a different one out in about an hour. This short film, the third to feature footage shot on my last visit to Japan, takes a leisurely mea…
This video is of a speech given by Cory Doctorow to the University of Westminister School of Law, and hosted by The Guardian as part of their ‘Battle for the Internet’ series. In the talk, Doctorow proposes that the so-called Co…
The next essay for my MA is due in very soon. For this one, I’m investigating the use of Twitter at conferences, using this year’s IATEFL conference in Glasgow (Mar 19 – 23) as the case study.
As part of the qualitative research into the topic, I ha…
I usually spend so much time agonising over getting a blog post just right, with the optimum degree of formatting, linkage, etc. Sometimes though, you have to just type something and post it to get it out there.
I’ve been attending the 2012 IATEFL…
Following on from last month’s conundrum over what to do for my MA practical project, I made my mind up quite quickly in the end and decided to go with the Lessig/ccMixter option. Given time constraints, etc, it seemed to make sense to go for someth…
Love this one. In Kathy Hind’s words:
By observing the resting of birds on telegraph lines, it was soon
obvious how much the lines resembled a music score or piano roll. Thus, a
computer-vision program was developed in order to scan a video o…
I’ve not written about anything I’ve been doing for my MA yet here on this blog. This is partly because since I started the course, back in September 2011 (around the same time as a new job), I’ve been so busy in trying to keep up with both the job a…
Thought that ‘the battle to save the Internet’ was won with the defeat or shelving of SOPA? Think again. To paraphrase Clay Shirky from the last video I posted here, the price of a free Internet has to be eternal vigilance, it seems.
What’s next? He…
‘…just consuming – not producing, not sharing – and we should say No’.
In the latest video from Globalism Films, Clay Shirky explains why SOPA/PIPA isn’t dead yet.
Another TED Talk issued under a Creative Commons license.
A mixtape of 17 underground classics from Kisumu, Kenya, ranging from
traditional guitar to blunted ass reggae to innovative hip hop.
RawMusicINTL: Raw Music International
Another gem here from the Free Music Archive, this time a delic…
