BTB #247: In the Plex

Jul 31, 2011 | Podcasts

Join CCC’s Chris Kenneally on a tour of a secretive lair where some of the world’s greatest engineering and entrepreneurial minds plot the campaigns of a global empire. The place is the Googleplex, Mountain View, California; our guide is Steven Levy, author of “In the...

BTB #246: Story Craft

Jul 24, 2011 | Podcasts

“The universe,” poet Muriel Rukyeser observed, “is made up of stories, not atoms.” Writing coach to Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists, Jack Hart has a unified theory for storytelling thermodynamics: “Successful nonfiction storytelling requires a basic understanding...

BTB #245: The Answer to the Machine

Jul 20, 2011 | Copyright, International

Are content creators and the creative industries taking full advantage of digital technologies to streamline copyright permissions and boost their businesses online? In Europe, a proposed alliance of creative industries aims to build the essential technological...

BTB #244: Class On The Go

Jul 17, 2011 | Podcasts

School’s out for summer, but the learning goes on around the clock in the digital age. Access to educational resources of all kinds is the great boon of the Internet, and entrepreneurs are looking to leverage the online lessons into profit. Ryan Meinzer, creator of...

BTB #243: Aggregation Violation

Jul 13, 2011 | Copyright, News

Whether from misguided practices, or misplaced good intentions, or lack of editorial oversight, the Huffington Post is on the carpet this week for aggregation violations that stop just short of plagiarism and copyright infringement. To sort out the rights and wrongs...

BTB #242: Curation Nation

Jul 10, 2011 | Podcasts

That roar you hear coming from your laptop or smartphone is the tsunami of content washing over us endlessly in the digital age. The deluge that overwhelms each of us every day in the form of waves of email and news stories, text and video and sound, is an unmediated...

Best of BTB: Information For Innovation

Jul 3, 2011 | Best of VOC, Copyright, Events

A discussion with Martha Anderson, director of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program for the Library of Congress, recording while attending the annual NFAIS Conference in Philadelphia. Anderson tells CCC’s Chris Kenneally about her...