Episode 2: Tantek Çelik

For the second episode of the Open Media Web interview series, we talked to Tantek Çelik, a long time advocate of open standards efforts like microformats, who recently made mandatory all contributions to the microformats wiki to be licensed under the public domain. This interview was also recorded at the Neue Songbird Nest in San Francisco during the second Open Media Web Meetup called Portable Playlists and other POSH-ibilities.

Tantek talks about openness, data portability, Digg’s use of public domain and the adoption cycles of data formats.

Download original (168MB, Quicktime).

This entry was written by Chris Messina, posted on Jan 9th at 6pm, filed under Interviews, Open Media Web. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

3 Comments

  1. nate ritter
    Posted Jan 9th at 7pm | Permalink

    I believe this is a beautiful “solution” to the issues surrounding Twitter as well. If the Twitter user license had the same license as Digg, the conversation is in the public domain and lets us not worry about who “owns” the content. Most of the conversation happening in Twitter are public conversations, and therefore should be open as public domain content.

    Oh, and the thing he mentioned about having a search engine for your own content, I spoke with someone about a year ago who was developing that. I’ll see if I can find him and get an update on the project for you guys.

  2. jacksonwest
    Posted Jan 10th at 1am | Permalink

    Well done, gents! Still watching, but access running both ways is what I like to hear.

  3. jamiegau
    Posted Jan 10th at 1pm | Permalink

    Thanks openmediaweb. This is a great resourse.

    I too blog about digital media on the web based on a technology standpoint.

    For example, in my predictions post for 2008 I cover likely ways we will see this open media web materialise.
    See the post here
    http://www.crafted.com.au/blog/2008/01/05/predictions-for-digital-media-for-2008/

    Please keep this kind of stuff coming.

    James

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