I conducted a survey for our AgilePhilly group to get an idea of what people are doing with agile methodologies and tools, and where they’d like to go in the future. Here are the results:
How do the responses compare with those of your company or community?
Here’s a good clip in which Lawrence Lessig and Stephen Colbert square off on copyright:
Photographer John Harrington makes a good point in his analysis: it’s a lot easier to be permissive about open copyrights and making your work available for free after you’ve already made your money from it.
This is something I struggle with in my own photography; I’d like to be able to share my work, see people do cool things with it, and theoretically have that circle back to me in the form of more business. But as a business, it’s tough to justify giving up those rights and income without proof or confidence that there will be a return from freeing it.
Perhaps there’s strength in the idea of hybrid businesses that implement both sides of Lessig’s hybrid economy: a protected avenue of content that generates income, and an open, possibly parallel avenue of content that fuels artistic expression, community-building, and personal branding.
Now that you’ve seen the Best Photos of 2008, it’s time for something new: the Just One project. Drawing some inspiration from Jim Talkington’s new photo blog, this will be an artistic project focusing on single images. Much of my photography is storytelling in the form of complete albums, so for this project, I’ll be choosing just one image from each album that’s a bit different and stands on its own. Please join me on this journey and share your own projects for the year in the comments!
