I am currently watching a streaming video session at the electric sheep company’s media island hooking up with san fan and the real conference. At the moment they are piping in Dire Straits which is the only problem so far!
A few of us have a had a good chat and made a few contacts, so its doing what it needs to. Over 40 people here to, and its running well.
3pointD has some coverage of Lina Sanford’s presentation. Well worth a read.
Thanks for making the world a more open space.
Control of information is hugely powerful. In the US, the threat is that companies control what I can access for commercial reasons. (In China, control is by the government for political reasons.) There is a very strong short-term incentive for a company to grab control of TV