Projects
Boards
Conferences
Projects, Topics, and Activities
Most of my projects revolve around one of a number of themes:
- Television Archiving and Internet Video. I’ve been blogging about developments in television archiving and Internet video since 2004, when the Kahle/Austin Foundation funded a position for me at UC Berkeley’s iSchool. For the last year, I’ve been working on a project at Thirteen, funded by the Library of Congress, called Preserving Digital Public Television.
- Open Content. In 2005, I began an association with Intelligent Television, and have co-produced a series of conferences on open content, public media, educational video, and new models of cultural production held in Berkeley at the Hillside Club, MIT, WNET, and Columbia University.
- Personal Archiving. Alfred de Grazia’s system for managing intellectual estates is a long term interest, and a focus for my current work at Fujitsu. ACM Interactions will be publishing a short piece on this co-authored with Elizabeth Churchill in early 2008.
- Innovation. What is “responsibility in innovation?” Organized innovation is a power changing the world, and identifying and promoting responsible (and irresponsible) exercises of that power is the focus of the Bassetti Foundation.
- Voluntary Associations, Gift Economies. For the last five years I have been working to make the Berkeley Hillside Club a local center for culture and the arts. You can check out my presentations on community based archiving and on collective action at the Microsoft International Symposium on Self-Organizing Online Communities at Cornell University in March, 2007, and the Community 2.0 conference.
- Regions: Berkeley & Amsterdam. Berkeley is home; Amsterdam is a world center for STM publishing, and a good place to gain some perspective on events here in the U.S.
Board of directors / advisors memberships
I’m currently serving on a number of boards of advisors and boards of directors:
- Question Copyright Promoting public understanding of the history and effects of copyright, and encouraging the development of alternatives to information monopolies.
- Hillside Club Founded in the late 19th century to promote good design practices in the Berkeley hills, the Hillside Club today is a community-based membership organization.
- Raqim Foundation Raqim Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works to alleviate poverty in Afghanistan. Our aim is to help empower the most vulnerable people in Afghanistan by partnering with local and international NGO’s in creating impact projects; and by providing financial assistance, technical assistance and support to grass roots groups, as well as dedicated individuals that are directly involved in implementing community-based development and relief projects.
- Support Intelligence Support Intelligence is a network security company located in San Francisco, California.
Conference organizing and workshops
The themes and organizations both involve organizing conferences and workshops.
- Images of War. One day workshop at UC Berkeley’s iSchool about managing hosting and access of war time images of violence. Held at UC Berkeley in September, 2007.
- Video, Education, and Open Content: Best Practices. Sponsored by Intelligent Television and Columbia University. New York, May 2007.
- Culture, Commerce, and Public Media: A New Forum for Creators. Co-sponsored by Intelligent Television and WNET/Channel Thirteen. New York, June 2006.
- The Economics of Open Content. Co-sponsored by Intelligent Television and MIT Open Courseware. Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 2006.
- Getting Ready for Prime-Time: Online Video and the Future of Television, Berkeley, CA, September 2005.
Past Projects and Affiliations
Some of the other organizations I’ve been involved with include: