Comments | gnatkip: I don't know what this means for us, but

gnatkip

I don't know what this means for us, but

Feb 28, 2008 21:08

the airquote LJ Advisory Board includes Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons.

(And perhaps I should recognize the two other names besides brad, but I don't.)

lj, on fanworks and fandom in general

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thelastgoodname February 29 2008, 03:25:39 UTC

The other two people are very well known people in Web 2.0 development, research, and criticism. Dyson actually wrote a book called Release 2.0 (before we knew it was called Web 2.0). And they're both women, which I think is cool.

gnatkip February 29 2008, 03:30:29 UTC

Thank you! I wikipedia-ed them, but I wasn't familiar with them.

It looks good, doesn't it. (Emphasis of course on "looks".)

thelastgoodname February 29 2008, 03:42:58 UTC

Boyd is really smart (I'd have a huge intellectual crush on her if I weren't so jealous of her brilliance). She's the one who first commented on the class and race dynamics of Facebook and MySpace (and why the Army wanted to ban MySpace but not Facebook). Dyson is really well-connected. I think she also writes for Wired. Lessig has decided that now he's doing something other than Creative Commons and copyright reform (but I can't remember what). And I have no information on Brad.

cathexys February 29 2008, 04:48:23 UTC

yup on all of these :) [with the crush and the jealousy...] i love her blog! (i think she first really registered for me in her astute analysis on why 6A was buying a community and not a product...way back when we were all still naive...

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la_fono February 29 2008, 04:02:23 UTC

Hmm... Consider me initially impressed by Lessig's involvement... the others, I have not yet come across - although, reading Boyd's little intro in comments, she seems quite sound.

Brad? Wut? I thought he'd run for the hills and washed his hands of LJ after the strikethrough debacle...

gnatkip February 29 2008, 05:28:27 UTC

Yeah, I don't remember the timeline, but brad seems to be around more lately.

See the first reply to First Comment on the news SUP announcement, which I thought was a pretty clever move to shape public opinion.

la_fono February 29 2008, 05:50:58 UTC

The 'In Soviet Russia' one? Do you think it was a deliberate thing?

gnatkip February 29 2008, 05:56:34 UTC

No no, scratch that; the other thing.

Hiii

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yourlibrarian March 1 2008, 01:26:36 UTC

Huh. When does Lessig have the time for this? And I do recognize Esther Dyson too. If they were going for big names I'd have thought that Cory Doctorow or Teresa Neilsen Hayden might have been good choices.

gnatkip March 1 2008, 01:59:56 UTC

I have some vague idea who Cory Doctorow is but really, clearly I don't know very much about what's going on in the blogosphere.

I'll be curious to see what they'll be advising on, and what impact they'll have.