Copyright

Well, Diet Coke, anyway. This is a perfect example of the kind of subject that drives the people's Web these days, and you don't have to be an Einstein to conduct and record this scientific experiment. In other words, you can try this at home (tho' maybe not indoors): add Mentos mints to a bottle of Diet Coke and film the resulting geyser (e.g., in this video). Online law expert Michael Geist … [Read more...] about Candy + Coke = hot Web video

Actually, the question is, what's happened to hit songs and albums and box-office blockbusters? Mass-audience hits turned into hits, then "pageviews" and "unique visitors" on (now uploads to) user-aggregating Web sites in zillions of niche interest communities. Consumers are aggregated by interest not geography, and the offerings are a la carte and all about exploration and sampling and – to the … [Read more...] about What’s happened to music?

You'll probably be hearing this from young videocam wielders you know before you read it here: Just-launched eefoof.com plans to give YouTube.com a run for its money by "offering videographers a share of the advertising dollars that their movies generate," CNET reports. "Video sharing on the Internet is one of the hottest sensations in media. Every day, people from all over the world are posting … [Read more...] about New video site pays users

Lots of digital-music news this week. Much of it centers on a story about a little Web music store with global-sized impact. Russia-based AllofMP3.com, which has long purported to sell tunes that were legal but very cheap, "could jeopardize Russia's long-sought entry into the World Trade Organization," according to the New York Times. "Operating through what music industry lobbyists say is a … [Read more...] about AllofMP3.com: Illegal?

That's one of the concerns of Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig – that "this age of [copyright] prohibition" may be turning kids into "pirates," the BBC reports. Lessig - also founder of the Creative Commons, a system of copyright licensing that allows creators to share and protect their work with allowances for non-commercial use - is seeking a balance between "the rights of the artist and … [Read more...] about Turning kids into ‘pirates’?