Monday, December 18, 2006

New Cognitive Daily podcast!. Starting today, each week's CogDaily Research articles will be available in podcast form! We're working on making them available directly from iTunes, but for now, you can download them from the CogDaily blog. Click here to download the December 2 Cognitive Daily podcast (AAC format) Click here to download the December 2 Cognitive Daily podcast (MP3 format) We're committed to podcasting the reports on peer reviewed research we've covered each week (they'll appear here each Saturday), so if you don't have time to read them online, you can listen while you exercise or commute to work. In the future, if there's sufficient interest, we'll add interviews with the experts who conducted the studies themselves, so make sure to let us know if you like this new feature. We'd also like to hear your other ideas on how to improve the podcast, so we'll keep the comments open. As always, feel free to email us (remove dashes) with suggestions or comments, too. Read the comments on this post... [Cognitive Daily's Weekly Podcast] 11:44:17 PM      Google It!.

Help CC's new Chairman meet our $100k goal!. My retirement plaque, presented by Jimmy Wales. (click to enlarge) Last week, culminating Friday night, in parties around the world, Creative Commons celebrated its fourth birthday. Hundreds of people helped mark this event. My 3 year old son, Willem, and I cut the first cake at the party in Portugal. Five hours later, in the Creative Commons party in the virtual world of Second Life, I made (for me an announcement. As I removed the CC torch from my bag of objects, I told those in world, and in San Francisco, that Joi Ito, a venture capitalist from Japan and a key driver in the "sharing economy," would be replacing me as Chairman of Creative Commons. I will remain on the board, and as CEO. But from the moment I handed him the torch, he is CC's new Chairman. This is a very happy moment for CC. I'm not going anywhere -- CC will continue to get everything I can give. But we are movement, not a cult. And it is important that movements have leaders. I have had enormous respect for Joi sin Lessig Blog, December 18, 2006. [Conversation] [Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes ~ Edu_RSS Most Recent - RSS old] 2:47:31 PM      Google It!.