Sen Bernie Sanders Amazing Speech!

America needs and deserves a government that functions outside the conflicting interests that has destoyed our collective trust. A government that functions 100% of the time in their constitutionally mandated service, underline service of "people" they are elected to govern.

'Should Corporations Decide Our Elections'-Part 4-Lawrence Lessig-- 10/15/10--NYC

'Should Corporations Decide Our Elections'-Part 4-Lawrence Lessig-- 10/15/10--NYC from Big Apple Coffee Party on Vimeo.

The information contained in this video is vital for everyone to who cares about our democracy.

Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, discusses 'Should Corporations Decide Our Elections' and how the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision affects elections, lobbying, and the mixture of money and politics.

The event was sponsored by the Big Apple Coffee Party and their co-sponsors.

Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks

Net Neutrality: Not Just a Nerd Issue

The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC overstepped its bounds in telling Comcast it could not regulate bandwidth use. So what if your Internet provider could charge you for what you use?

Lawrence Lessig: Re-examining the remix

Adam Sadowsky engineers a viral music video

Counterpoint

Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic of The New York Times, explains an important musical technique.

Produced by Gabe Johnson, Ben Solomon

Does Immigration Cost Jobs?

Study after study has shown that immigrants grow the economy, expanding demand for goods and services that the foreign-born workers and their families consume, and thereby creating jobs. There is even broad agreement among economists that while immigrants may push down wages for some, the overall effect is to increase average wages for American-born workers.

RSA Animate Matthew Taylor: Left brain, right brain

A Republic of Letters

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/books/review/Darnton-t.html?pagewanted=1

By ROBERT DARNTON NYTimes
Published: August 20, 2010
The ideal of a Republic of Letters may sound archaic, but it is still alive. Under another name, the “cultural commons,” summons up associations with some current projects for sharing knowledge like Creative Commons, the Public Library of Science, Wikipedia and the Internet Archive.

COMMON AS AIR
Revolution, Art, and Ownership
By Lewis Hyde

Understanding Copyrights Neil W. Netanel is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law in Los Angeles, CA. He specializes in Intellectual Property Law

The music business is built upon, and exists because of copyrights. Anytime anyone creates an original song, and either writes that song down or records it, a copyright is created. Along with the creation of this copyright comes a bundle of rights that the creator immediately has. The creator can, for example, sell or license her copyright to someone else. In a nutshell, that's the music business: someone creates a copyright, allows someone to use it, and then derives financial compensation for that use.

Of course, this process of allowing someone to use a copyright and the actual use of the copyright can result in any number of complexities, but at the core there is simply the copyright.

To be a successful artist in the music business or to be a successful business person in the music business you MUST understand how copyrights work - they are the currency of the record industry. This section will explain them.

Social Media and Community

Social Media Club Chicago
The Social Media Club Chicago is a chapter of the national SMC organization. SMC Chicago is the fastest growing networking group in the Chicago area. The group started in October 2008 and already has over 1300 members in Chicago. SMC focuses on educating businesses and individuals through discussions and workshops about how to use social media, while bringing people together. They meet once a month in Chicago at various locations, and it is free to join.

Creating Value in Life and From Art – Current Leaders in Social Entrepreneurship featured speaker Lisa Canning

Lisa Canning is an accomplished clarinetist and entrepreneur who created four multi-million dollar ventures and has performed with members of the Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, Florida Symphony Orchestra and Milwaukee Symphony. Canning spent ten years as a faculty staff member at DePaul University in Chicago, where she developed a Career Development Course for Artistic Disciplines. She frequently speaks at events and gives workshops on entrepreneurship in the arts.

Isolationism, Potectionism and Anti-immigration Sentiment

Worried Americans Look Inward

http://online.wsj.com/video/news-hub-worried-americans-look-inward/F12FE5C8-535A-4F7B-A571-E051152CCF40.html

"Love Finds You" Bruce Brown's Song Lyrics

"I Grew Up To Be A Kid"
I was always afraid and shy,
never did what a kid should try,
I never played any games like kick the can,
never ran through a sprinkler, or thought I was Superman,
But I've seen the light and I'm proud to say,
it's so nice to go out and play,
after doing some reviewing, meet the new me,
I Grew Up To Be A Kid
Kinda strange to see such a change in me,
I'm ridin' high cuz bein' shy was just a stage,
From a doom and gloomer, to a late bloomer,
I'm through acting my age,
it took a little time,
but now I'm where I want to be,
havin' fun, that's the key to me,
I'm really glad I decided, to do what I did,
I Grew Up To Be A Kid

OSCON 2010: Tim O'Reilly, "The O'Reilly Radar"

Why is Apple Competing with Its Developers?

While on the one hand, the above applications sound fantastic and certainly like things we would want to use, the fact that the patents are coming from Apple and not some enterprising startup is somewhat unsettling.

It's not unusual for Apple (or any company) to patent its ideas, but most of Apple's previous patents have been for technology improvements, like using wireless sensors as heart rate monitors, tracking sports in real time, allowing iPhones to "socially network" with each other when in proximity with one another or modifications to the iPhone's homescreen. Apple has not been in the habit of patenting actual mobile applications.

What does this mean for companies already building applications similar to these? For example, OpenWays, which has already built mobile applications that allow smartphones to work as hotel room keys or Socialight which can be used to build a "virtual hotel concierge" service, among other things? What of the fact that multiple airlines already have their own mobile boarding pass applications? What of the universal remote apps like FLPR, Bobby, L5 and RedEye, to name just a few? And the list could go on and on.

Does Apple want to compete with these developers with its own native apps or does it just want license this technology to others building related services? Are these patents defensive maneuvers to block Google from providing services like these on its Android mobile operating system?

News like this is one of the reasons why so many in the technology industry are so vehemently against the idea of software patents. Foundry Group's managing director Brad Feld, for example, recently called the litigation surrounding patents "a massive tax on and retardant of innovation." Redmonk analyst Stephen O'Grady agreed, saying "it is not reasonable to expect that the current patent system, nor even one designed to improve or replace it, will ever be able to accurately determine what might be considered legitimately patentable from the overwhelming volume of innovations in software."


Philosophical arguments aside, given Apple's cryptic ways and its behavior when dealing with competition (see: Adobe, AdMob, Flurry Analytics), the idea of Apple venturing into its developers' playing field is one that could greatly affect the innovation in mobile applications for years to come.

BUSINESSMAN INKS DEAL TO PURCHASE NEWSWEEK...FOR ONE DOLLAR

Sidney Harman, the businessman who made his fortune selling stereo equipment, has secured a deal to buy Newsweek from the Washington Post Co. and will announce the deal later Monday afternoon...Losses at the magazine could approach $70 million this year,

McConnell becomes the highest-ranking Republican figure to call for examining the reach of the 14th amendment. On Sunday, his chief deputy, Sen. John

MITCH MCCONNELL WANTS HEARINGS ON 14TH AMENDMENT - Sam Stein: "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) officially supports a review of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which grants children of undocumented immigrants status as U.S. citizens, his office confirmed to the Huffington Post on Monday. A spokesman said that the Kentucky Republican believes that 'we should hold hearings' on the matter. McConnell had not previously commented on the issue before, the spokesman confirmed.