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start date and time: Friday, October 24, 2008 at 9:00 AM

end date and time: Friday, October 24, 2008 at 10:30 AM

categories:   technology   interactive discussion

event description:

video webcast - Clay Shirky's presentation archived at the archive link -

View Matt Mason's presentation at:
http://tinyurl.com/d69r76

View Chris Anderson's presentation at:
http://tinyurl.com/cdg65g

This session from the Pop!Tech Conference in Camden, ME focuses on Digital Freedoms. The Pop!Tech Conference is a one-of-a-kind community of remarkable people discussing science, technology, and the future of ideas.

Submit a question to the speakers using the following:
email - questions@poptech.org
Twitter - “@poptech”

Speakers in this session are:

Clay Shirky -
Clay is a journalist and consultant on web-based technologies. He is also an adjunct professor for New York University’s graduate interactive telecommunications program. He recently published Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. He has also been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the Harvard Business Review. He has performed consulting work for Nokia and the Library of Congress. He was also an expert witness in 1996 in a court case that helped to strike down the Communications Decency Act. Clay's work focuses on the decentralized technologies, peer-to-peer web services, and alternative wireless networks.

Matt Mason -
Matt is co-founder of the non-profit media company Wedia. This company brings together non-profits, volunteer filmmakers, and journalists. He is also a journalist and author of The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism. He believes that piracy is an opportunity and that it can bridge the gap between out-of-touch laws and our use of information. Matt has been published in The Guardian, Adweek and The Independent. He was appointed in 2004 to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s Start Talking Ideas campaign. He was also awarded the Prince's Trust London Business of the Year by Prince Charles.

Chris Anderson -
Chris is editor-in-chief of WIRED magazine. Under Chris, the magazine has received 6 National Magazine Award nominations and awards for General Excellence in 2005 and 2007. In 2007, Chris was named to Time magazine's list of the top 100 people transforming the world. Chris is the author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More and the upcoming book Free. Chris is an officer of the Young Presidents’ Association. He also speaks and participates regularly at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He blogs at geekdad.com and is a do-it-yourself enthusiast. Chris is also the father of five children.

- In addition, there will be short talks by Erin McKean and fellow Kushal Chakrabarti.

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