In this post I talk about the Burning Man trademark controversy and its ramifications for other community initiatives, for the community mark concept and then outline a few ideas relating to the advance of community-driven intellectual property.
In case you’ve not heard or been before, the fourteenth classic SHDH will be taking place this weekend (tomorrow) at David Weekly’s SuperHappyFunHouse in Hillsborough, CA. Geektivities start at 1pm and last post-BBQ to 1am. Oh, and don’t forget! Sunday at the Open Source Application Foundation at 543 Howard St, Todd Davies is putting on [...]
Nearly a year ago, I asked for someone to hack Photo Booth so that I could upload photos directly to Flickr. This would be useful at BarCamps, parties and, well, anywhere else that you wanted to speed up the capture-to-Flickr process. Turns out that Tristan O’Tierney, a self-proclaimed Mac Geek, has finally built the solution, [...]