While in Washington DC last July, I had the very great pleasure of attending AdaCamp, an unconference* about women in open technology and culture organized by the Ada Initiative. AdaCamp was a real eye-opener. It was thrilling to meet dozens of other people who were interested in fan/remix culture as part of a broader (conscious or unconscious) ( Read more... )

I'm increasingly convinced that all schools from the primary to higher level should establish new classes on the history and functioning of the internet. Every adult in the world should be forced to attend at least a semester of such a class. Policymakers who are involved in regulating the internet should be forced to attend and come back for ( Read more... )

Remember Cecilia Gimenez, the lady who tried to restore a fresco in a church near Zaragoza and did it wrong? The story is twisting down some interesting paths, copyright-wise.

According to El Correo (in Spanish, English via gTranslate), thousands of people started visiting the church in the town of Borja after the botched restauration became famous ( Read more... )

Boing Boing, one of my favorite blogs, is going to start publishing new chapters of Elfquest, the comic that was the shining and beloved fandom of my youth. World, you do love me and I love you back so much.

What I love the most about this announcement, besides the fact that it's real and it's happening, is that it shows that Elfquest's creators ( Read more... )

 Translating a symposium piece for a future issue of Transformative Works and Cultures from Japanese to English: four hours of smooth, enjoyable working with occasional snags but overall good progress.

Translating and transcribing the bibliography to said piece and putting all the points and commas in the right places: a full extra fours hours of ( Read more... )

I moved all the links to research-related stuff and my other accounts on various online services that used to be on this journal to a professional homepage, because I need a place that showcases all research-related things I do online. Most of my online activity is on Twitter and Evernote, and it's kind of hard to show that in Dreamwidth because ( Read more... )

Here's the presentation I'll be giving at the 'Media fandom and/as labor' panel at Console-Ing Passions in Boston, which takes place at 15h30 today (in about four hours). The hashtag for the conference is #CP2012 in case you want to follow along; the sessions aren't streamed, but people are livetweeting quite a bit ( Read more... )

Busy with AdaCamp right now, where we've had a couple of great sessions on fandom/fanworks and open culture/open source software. More on that later.

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On my way to the US right now.* The program has ballooned a bit: I won't just be talking at Console-Ing Passions in Boston, but also participating in AdaCamp and attending Wikimania, both in Washington DC.

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And how. From Michael Geist (he of the ACTA explanation video):

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