Chinwag, London: Bubble 2.0? -

A brief presentation: Transcript and MP3/Podcast [6MB]

My infrastructure argument was first raised in October 2005.

"Let's acknowledge what the Web has been successful at: as a presentation layer. But the Web 2.0 kids desperately want to write system apps on their "global operating system" - only they don't have the cojones to do system level thinking. Real engineers look at where systems (and humans) fail - their priority isn't a cool demo. They're pessimistic. And there's no place for pessimism at a Web 2.0 conference."

Tim O'Reilly snootily replied that he was unable to respond to "innuendo"-

"... this is yellow journalismi: find the outliers, and attack them to make a point."

For O'Reilly, infrastructure is an "outlier".

What Mistakes Do Techno Utopians Make?" - a panel discussion I devised and chaired at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, December 2004.

"A Modest Proposal" - keynote at the In The City international music conference, Manchester, September 2004.

At the suggestion of Tony Wilson, this is my plea to monetize file sharing with a blanket digital media license. The transcript is available was published at The Register, titled "How the music biz can live forever, get rich, and be loved"

BBC Newsnight: studio guest, August 2004. Video and transcript at the BBC's site, here

XML Summer School, Wadham College Oxford: presentation, July 2004

A humorous look at the technology's utopian afflictions. There are 40+ slides, which you can view with a browser starting here.

Or download a Zipped RTF file [1.1MB], or Microsoft PowerPoint presentation [960kb]

"Politics of the Archive", Next Five Minutes Festival of Tactical Media, Amsterdam: panelist, September 2003