SOPA & PIPA Information Tools

Information about the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the US. Focusing on the current debate, opposing argument, security and technical concerns. Featuring content from prominent commentators, online awareness campaigns and a range of Internet protest tools. Links to both Acts are included.

Ogilvy Hosts Music & Brands Event 'Lab Day LIVE'

International advertising and marketing agency Ogilvy Group UK are staging a one-day event called Lab Day LIVE designed to engage both the advertising and music communities. On the 9th September Ogilvy's offices in London's Canary Wharf will play host to a music industry conference and live music festival.

It promises to be an informative and entertaining occasion focusing on the latest digital media opportunities mutually available to brands and the music business. The morning conference panels and talks will feature key figures from Last.fm. Spotify, PRS and other leading music organizations (List of speakers). During the afternoon live music performances from name and up-coming acts will take place across three stages (see below).

Entitled: Making music matter as much to brands as it does to consumers

The event is part of Ogilvy’s on-going drive to help clients and their brands navigate the rapidly changing landscape of the music industry in the digital age.

In this video clip Lab Day organizer Tara Austin talks about her role in making music a more central part of the creative process at Ogilvy. To see what other members of the team are saying take a look at the Video Wall.

The Rules of Engagement

Ogilvy are looking to the music industry for innovative ideas on how brands can use music to to build engagement with their audience. Earlier in the year, at MIDEM 2011, they made a stirring appeal for music publishers to "‘look beyond the cheque' and contribute more than just a piece of audio to an advertising campaign" emphasising Ogilvy's vision to "create added value: value for our brands and, ultimately, value for the artist whose music our campaigns promote". 

I'll be attending the event and listening closely to what's being said about sonic branding and new ideas for using music to create a 'brand sound'. I'm also looking forward to learning more about the power of sound and music when applied to areas such as 'retail soundscapes' and how we can be informed by hard data.

As a long-time advocate of Open Media licensing tools, when and where appropriate, I'll be hoping to see more open and collaborative business frameworks designed to minimize the friction permeating traditional licensing models. Many Internet audio and video platforms have already successfully integrated Creative Commons licensing making it easy for people to share, remix and reuse media legally, notably SoundCloud and YouTube (list of corporate support).

Creative Commons has always been about promoting creativity and the power of openness to build communities based on shared ideas. Unfortunately the established licensing system, especially with regards to CC licenses in Europe, makes widespread media sharing difficult, thereby blocking the most valuable thing which is attention. Hopefully the wider debate around open and closed systems will eventually lead to innovation that fosters audience attention, participation, and better user experiences in the digital music space.

 

Event Info & Live Stream

Website

 Full details and live streaming of acts from the 3 music stages on the day can be found at http://www.labdaylive.co.uk/

Twitter

You can follow updates using the hashtag #labdaylive plus there's further tweet analysis, tracking and visualization via my channel at The Archivist

 

Acts

Alexis Ffrench http://www.alexisffrenchmusic.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/AlexisFfrench	Aloe Blacc http://aloeblacc.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/aloeblacc	Boy Mandeville http://twitter.com/#!/boymanband http://www.youtube.com/user/boymandeville
Charlie Simpson http://charliesimpsonmusic.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/charliesimo	Delays http://www.thedelays.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/#!/delays	Digitonal http://www.digitonal.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/digitonal
Kidda http://kiddamusic.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/iamkidda	Kinura http://www.kinura.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/kinura	Laki Mera http://www.facebook.com/lakimeramusic http://twitter.com/#!/LakiMeraMusic
Newton Faulkner http://www.newtonfaulkner.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/newtonfaulkner	Pete and The Pirates http://www.peteandthepirates.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/#!/PetePirates	Sophie Ellis-Bextor http://www.sophieellisbextor.net/ http://twitter.com/#!/sophieeb
To Kill a King http://www.tokillaking.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/#!/ToKillAKingUK	Tribes http://tribesband.com/ http://twitter.com/#!/tribesband	Wolf Gang http://www.wolf-gang.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/#!/wolfgang

 

Media

Some of the performers appearing on the day

Digitonal

The Beating of Her Heart by digitonal

 

 

 

About Ogilvy

Wikipedia

Ogilvy & Mather are an International advertising, marketing and public relations agency founded in 1948.

YouTube

Visit the Ogilvy Museum on YouTube  to watch some of their classic ads, dating back to the 1950s. For more recent developments there's the Ogilvyvids Channel

Twitter 

Ogilvy Group Comms @OgilvyLondon for news and observations from the comms team at Ogilvy Group UK.

OGILVY @OGILVY their global staff blog aggregator.

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Why we Need Renewable Food Tech to Feed the World

Angel investor, Ali Partovi, is stimulating discussion in the area of  "renewable" food technologies and has just launched FixFood, a forum for people to share ideas on how to fix America's broken food system. You can learn more about sustainable approaches to agriculture in his informative TechCrunch article - Food Is The New Frontier In Green Tech.

The rapidly growing world population is creating a shortage of natural resources and harming the environment.
These short videos raise awareness of the unsustainable levels of human consumption and the urgent need for renewable food production solutions.

Big Question: Feast or Famine?



Video from the University of Minnesota - Institute on the Environment
More videos available from the UMNIonE YouTube Channel


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A Vision of Students Today

This video was created by cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

It provides insight and statistics on many important issues relevant to students and educators today, including cultural, social and technological concerns.

Music soundtrack by Try^d: Listen - Both the video and music are released under Creative Commons license.

You can learn more about the collaboration and data gathering at the Digital Ethnography blog

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The Changing Media Landscape - Did You Know 4.0

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For further information and the story behind the making of "Did You Know 4.0" visit:
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Carbon.to - CO2 Awareness Tool

Carbon.to - Carbon so you can understand it via kwout

An online CO2 converter built by David Kjelkerud, Henrik Berggren and Jorge Zapico at Ecomo09, an environmental hacking day in London. It is designed to help you more easily understand what a kilogram of CO2 really means.

You can convert CO2 amounts to other units such as bottles of beer or compare different emissions for instance how many apples are equivalent to a litre of milk. The data used is mostly localized to Sweden.

David and Henrick also built http://citysounds.fm/ the web app that lets you listen to the latest music from cities around the world.

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The Importance of Innovation for Future Economic Growth Worldwide

A New Ranking Of The Worlds Most Innovative Countries

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22 Smart, Inspirational Quotes From Bloggers In 2008

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Gaia - The Future of Politics

A journey through time charting the information power shift caused by the Internet and the ensuing development of a new global politics. Website

Gaia, a New World Order, is born today, the 14 August 2054.
Racial conflicts, ideological conflicts, religious conflicts, territorial conflicts belong to the past.
Every man is a world citizen, subject to the same law.
The Internet has driven the change, spreading communication, knowledge and organization at a planetary level. Transcript

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Contsructive Capitalism

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A thought provoking presentation by the Director of the Havas Media Lab, Umair Haque,  about Constructive Capitalism and Why Ideals are the New Business Models. 

The Ten Laws of Constructive Capitalism

 1. Strategy is a commodity

 2. Competition is obsolete

 3. There is nothing more asymmetrical than an ideal

 4. Tomorrow is today

 5. Connections not transactions

 6. People, not product

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 8. Outcomes not incomes

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A short animation explaining the system of borrowing and lending that led to the current financial meltdown:

The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated.

Created by Jonathan Jarvis.

Narration by John Levoff.

Music by Brandon Au - a.k.a - DJ Skwint

Update: Useful links for the global economic meltdown.

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Copyright Crunch Leads to Pirates Prisons Project

A radical new project designed to punish and reform illegal downloaders of copyrighted music could prove to be a huge money spinner for tech savvy investors. The Pirates Prisons Project aims to capitalize on the current copyright crunch by building 100s of 1000s of new prisons to house the unlimited supply of illegal internet users. If proposed legislation to criminalise billions of music fans goes ahead, the high probability of re-offending represents a once-in-a-lifetime investment  opportunity to secure real financial gains for PPP shareholders.

The ingenious shares scheme relies on the music industry's desire for economic dominance. However critics of doom and bust policies believe the music industry's strategy of using a failed business model is enevitably doomed to failure (See links below). Only (prison) time will tell.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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The World Wants Obama for President

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It's a small but interesting sample bearing in mind the consequences of this election will affect the rest of the world. Consider the first Betavote poll in 2004 which finished Kerry 421,770 (88%), Bush 55,242 (11%).

My SpyPoint lens currently features some real-time tracking tools for the 2008 presidential election. You can also share and view sites with auto-updating crowdstreams for other types of social data.

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