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Anthony Wood, Founder, CEO, Roku delivers a keynote at Streaming Media West on the future of television and the convergence of media.

For long form content, such as that produced by ABC, when you ask consumers where they go to watch full episodes of TV shows, Youtube does not come up in the conversation. Consumers reference the network Web sites. For short form content, EQAL has technology that allows them to launch community based web sites around content and they have a production company that produces shows such as lonelygirl15.

The ability to easily create and share online video presents unprecedented opportunities for self-expression, but has at the same time generated significant confusion about what is permissable versus impermissable copying. How does one balance the rights of copyright holders and the rights of those who use content for new, valuable and expressive purposes.

Segway inventor Dean Kamen once said about entrepreneurs, “It’s not that they’re brilliant or well-educated…They work all the time. They don’t let failure demoralize or destroy them. They pick themselves up and keep going and eventually, every once in a while, one of your ideas actually breaks through and works, and makes all that stuff seem worthwhile.”

Joel Dreyfuss, Former Editor-In-Chief of Red Herring lead a panel of experts to discuss the challenging business climate for companies in 2009. The panel includes an entrepreneur and a suite of advisers from the legal, accounting and financing professions.

Brandeis threatens to close the Rose Museum and online social networking groups form in protest.

A NY Times Op Ed today suggests newspapers should move to a foundation-supported model and become 501(c)3 not-for-profits. Through that model, with its tax advantages, the newspaper business can survive, the authors write.
Their piece starts by quoting Thomas Jefferson, who said he’d prefer a country with newspapers and no government to the inverse. But [...]

Wikipedia: The Missing Manual ends up where it belongs, on Wikipedia.

The Faces of Redemption.
 The recent inauguration of the United States of America’s  first African American President was made even more poignant because of the history of despair, survival and sustained grace of African Americans – many of whom might be considered the ladders that enabled this momentous, historical, national   ‘redemption’.  While ladders are essential, [...]

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