Notes from the freeculture front

From this — The Future of Online Music: Why Closed Platforms Will Fail –
Alternatively, the disappearance of an open platform could spell the end of DRM technology altogether, at least for digital music. Since I believe strongly that the market in the end must and will be based on interoperable digital formats, if DRM is [...]

good interface + bad metadata =

well, not really bad metadata.  More like the wrong metadata.
Dipity lets you build interactive timelines. You can pull in all kinds of information sources — video, text, images — and display them in a nice, linear timeline. The interface is easy to navigate. Each item in the timeline can be viewed [...]

YouTube & me