Smashcast hits Jetset Show

Just watch it – make sure you’re plugged in and/or wait for the show to download once. I’m very sorry for some of the girls comments on ‘why such few girls in Smashcast’. We’ll see if we can’t prepare a podcast on this at our next session. But cheers all in all. Just that moment with Vincent talking about downloading audacity, open source software etc. takes us miles ahead in breaking those dastardely stereotypes. Cameo by Moi. I had said ‘no’ to their videotaping me at the conference, figured it should be all about the Smashcasters. The cameo’s from some clever interjection of still photographs into the video. Permalink to show.

An example to follow

A friend read the recent businessweek article on Dan Gillmor and Bayosphere in which I’m quoted (accurately) and said “guess who got the negative quote”. I hope he was kidding, but it forced me to think about the quote, and any future quotes. What’s the difference between a negative quote and a critical quote? There are rare cases where I feel the former is justified, whereas the latter is probably the norm for me. But to the readers eye, perhaps the line is blurred. If you have a tip to help differentiate one from the other, I’m all ears.

Businessweek on Smashcast

Heather Green from business week captures the spirit of smashcast.org in her most recent blog entry.

Open Access & Fetal Pain

Peter Suber with Open Access News and John Wilbanks from Science Commons highlight (1, 2) the open access argument in the recent furore over fetal pain and the JAMA review. That’s in addition to the UC Davis Intellectual Property & Social Justice Blog (thanks Leena!)

(Since the original post was cross-posted on Bayosphere, I’m having to use trackbacks, I apologize for the confusion).

Upfront Talk

08/31 UPDATED: Here’s the radio feed for the show. (Streaming audio)

Enjoyed speaking with Sandip Roy on Wednesday on immigrants
in the U.S. and my recent trip to Lodi, CA. The show he hosts is called “Upfront” and you can hear it on 91.7FM. For Upfront viewers, here are the key articles to which I referred. You can hear a rebroadcast of the show on Sunday at 3pm

• Veena Dubal and Sunaina Maira’s excellent early piece
• My followup piece on the community.
• ASATA’s web-site with additional articles