Another great TED talk, this time by Larry Lessig, Stanford professor and copyright lawyer extraordinaire. You probably don’t know this guy, but if you get the idea behind Creative Commons, you know who Larry is.

It starts a bit slow, but after minute 14, you will consider this video “worth watching”. Larry pins down the key shortcomings of our dusty, pre-digital intellectual property laws, and reveals how bad laws beget bad code.

Imagine you win in the lottery and you spend it all on one weekend in Reno. That’s how you will feel, if you start a new site, gain some traffic because of a popular friend linked to you, and you ruin it by pushing out content; quantity over quality.

Read something related about this: NYT’s Sweatshop Blogging.

I was thinking the exact same thing, “Now that you have this small-attention-window, try to bring it on no matter what”. I bet there are a lot of folks out there who do that. They publish something, get “stumbled upon” or “digged” and they go bonkers and start pushing dupes.

Keep it real. Don’t look out for “good enough” stories to hop on. Look both ways before you cross a street. Featuring stuff you found on the net is perfectly fine, but you have to “present it like you mean it”.

It was about time; finally a feature documentary explores the creative spirit driving youth culture and popular art today.

“Beautiful Losers” is an intimate and moving assessment of underappreciated yet wildly influential outcasts such as Shepard Fairey, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Jo Jackson, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, Stephen Powers, Geoff McFetridge, Thomas Campbell and – one of my personal heroes – Ed Templeton.

I so have to see this one! Check out the movie posters as well.