The WGBH Forum Network has posted a great collection of podcasts from their Economics of Open Content Symposium. The plan was to bring together media folks, business people, legal, and educators and creators to talk about making open content better and deliver it more effectively.
Here are the titles of the lectures(I link to the main page, not each lecture):
Collaboration and the Marketplace
New Models of Creative Production in the Digital Age
Keynote Address: Openness as an Ethos
The Wealth of Networks
The Economics of Knowledge as a Public Good
The Economics of Open Courseware
The Economics of Open Text
Convergence Culture: Consumer Participation and the Economics of Mass Media
The Economics of the Music Industry
If Only We Knew Yesterday What We Know Today
The Economics of Open Archives, Museums, and Libraries I
The Economics of Open Archives, Museums, and Libraries II
The Economics of the Public Domain
The Economics of Film and Television I
The Economics of Film and Television II
The New Economics of Gaming
Everything is Miscellaneous
Business Interests in Open Content
Next Steps: Cooperation Across Institutions and Industries
The series is here. I’ve listened to a few. They’re sometimes fresh, sometimes a little slow in places, but overall, I felt it was fascinating and dovetails well with what I talk about here.
New to Listening to Podcasts?
The #1 persistent misunderstanding about podcasts is that you need to listen to them on an Apple iPod portable mp3 player. You don’t.
You can listen to podcasts on your home computer. You can burn them to a CD. You can port them to any mp3 playing device. Clicking directly on a link ending in .mp3 will likely bring up your computer’s media player of choice. However, if you Right-Click on a PC or [Control} click on a Mac and select SAVE AS, you can download the puppies to a folder and then do with them what you will.
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