Posted Sunday June 8, 2008, 11:39 pm, Over one day old
Boing Boing TV post with the video is up. Ever since I moved to the boonies, I've posted photos and other notes about my bamboo shoots on Flickr and my blog. This year, after my first post about this...
Read Video of Cooking Young Bamboo Shoots (score by Ryuichi Sakamoto) (Links)
Posted Sunday June 8, 2008, 11:39 pm, Over one day old
On panel with Jun Murai, the father of the Japanese Internet Today is the 20th anniversary of the WIDE project which created the Japanese Internet. Thanks to Skype (is there a good h323 client for the Mac?), I'm in...
Read Two places at once (Links)
Posted Sunday June 8, 2008, 11:39 pm, Over one day old
Over the last few years, my blogging slowed down and came nearly to a halt. I tried to figure out what had happened. Had I written about everything that I was interested in already? Was I just sick of blogging?...
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Posted Sunday June 8, 2008, 11:39 pm, Over one day old
This photo is actually one that I took at the CC Birthday Party I'm at Google Zeitgeist and just got a copy of the talk that Gilberto Gil gave. (Thanks Claudio!) I wish we had such a cool, smart...
Read Gilberto Gil's talk at Google Zeitgeist (Links)
Posted Sunday June 8, 2008, 11:39 pm, Over one day old
In January, my company Digital Garage invested in Twitter and announced plans to work together with Twitter to create a Japanese version of the service. That service just went live. It's still part of the main Twitter service, but...
Read Twitter Japan is a go! (Links)
Posted Sunday June 8, 2008, 11:39 pm, Over one day old
Oki Matsumoto of Monex sent me another interesting GDP slide supporting the idea that IT is equalizing GDP per capita.OkiBefore the Industrial Revolution in the 19th century, the GDP share of the world was in ratio to the population of...
Read GDP ratios, the industrial revolution and IT (Links)
Posted Sunday June 8, 2008, 11:39 pm, Over one day old
I ran into Loic at MIPTV in Cannes where I was giving a talk about Creative Commons. MIPTV is "The World's Audiovisual and Digital Content Market" attended by television and mobile phone content industry people. When we were walking along...
Read Chat with Loic about Creative Commons (Links)
Posted Sunday June 8, 2008, 11:39 pm, Over one day old
Shinsei Bank, one of great success stories in Japan, has always been an example of how legacy companies in Japan can be turned around with good management and smart methods. The "methods" include a great deal of innovation towards simplicity...
Read Shinsei Bank releasing its methods under a CC license (Links)
Posted Sunday June 8, 2008, 11:39 pm, Over one day old
Hot off the press... Creative Commons Announces New Leadership, New Funding San Francisco, CA, USA -- April 1, 2008 Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that works to expand the body of creative work available to the public for legal sharing...
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Posted Sunday June 8, 2008, 11:39 pm, Over one day old
This is a request from the CC team. If you've got any stories, please let us know!Flickr Re-Use Stories Calling all Flickr photographers and CC-licensors - we are compiling a list of interesting and/or unique stories of re-use of CC-licensed...
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