Hybrid: From Taiwan to Blogosphere
Ke-Huan "Jedi" Lin
Creative Commons Taiwan
Hybrid Nation, Hybrid Culture
- Mandarin, Ming-Nan, Haka
- Japan
- Korea
- Hong Kong
- U.S.
- U.K.
- et cetera...
Taiwanese Culture is Hybrid Culture. We watch and read materials from many other countries. TV programs, Movies, Animations, Comics, Novels, Magazines from these countries also make our people adapted their culture and fashion.
くそ: Sampling, Remix, and Collage
- CD-PRO II: The Famous Hong Kong movie "Infernal Affairs" remixed with Palm Drama's dubbing.
- Polo Daily: Appropriated pictures in "Apple Daily" style.
- leeMP3.mp3: Sample from TV News then remix into songs.
- orz.mp3: Using ASCII Art in lyrics.
- More and more creativity based on past, on world-wide stimulation.
Mainly Internet creativities in Taiwan are in sampling, remix, and collage form. Young artists pick up elements from other art, put them together, and make variations. They rearrange different media present and create new meaning on old stuff.
Internet Is Cybernetic Organism
- Internationalization vs Grassroot
- Community vs Individualism
- Accessibility vs Privacy
- Aggregation vs Distribution
- Creation vs Sharing
- Hybrid everywhere
Blog become Node in Internet
- Presenting Individual in Cyberspace
- Provide Content
- Maintain Context
- Bind Communication
- Keep Relation
Naturely...
- Taiwanese experienced and accepted Blog
- Blog becomes part of Taiwanese Culture
- ...even a "buzz-word"...
- TV program named "Poet Blog"
Blogging in Taiwan
- Internationalization vs Grassroot
- Community vs Individualism
- Accessibility vs Privacy
- Aggregation vs Distribution
- Creation vs Sharing
- Sampling, Remix, and Collage
- ... Just like how Internet acting!
Published on Blog
- CD-PRO II
- Polo Daily
- orz.mp3
- More and more remix creativity
Taiwanese blogger not only blog their life or work, but also blog their remix creativities. Blog became a field where remix is processed, where all Internet activities are happened.
Blog Service Provider in Taiwan
- HiNet Xuite: MultiMedia
- Yam-Roodo: Podcasting
- PCHome MyPaper: Newsletter / Maillist
- Wretch, Webs-TV, Q!ba, et cetera
As to this variety, BSP in Taiwan also go vari. Some BSP provided Podcasting support while others focused on MultiMedia content.
But be careful!
- There is someone...
- Who wear Armani suits...
- ...hold doe skin leather briefcases...
- Yes, he is a lawyer!
- And, lawyer is fatal...
- So we can't blog too careful.
Solving Problems
- Where there is a problem, there is a solution.
- ...That's how Internet working!
- We use blog to create, remix, share, aggregate, and distribute.
- We don't want some lawyers to bother us.
- So we have to find some way helping each other.
- That's what Creative Commons Taiwan doing.
- "Code in Cyberspace is just like Law in realworld," said by Lawrence Lessig.
What is CC Taiwan doing
- Promote CC philosophy
- Help BSPs to implement CC licensing engine
- Examine CC usage in Taiwanese Blogosphere
- Create CC licenses model for Taiwanese Blogosphere
- Improve the Code and the Law
- Make life easier
- Make Blogosphere richer
Thank you!
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License.
- You can find this slide at http://Jedi.org/p4/slide/20050825_APNG/
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