John is an ABC broadcaster, social media activist, electronic and mechanical inventor, bike rider, vegan cook, performer, promoter, composer, and enthusiastic life hacker.
He is a founding member of the Indymedia movement and also part of the team that devised and produces Radio National’s weekly remix program, The Night Air.
He works as a community producer for pool.org.au which is an experiment in co-created public ‘broadcasting’ utilising CC licensing and multiple authorship.
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 | We Are What We Share - 5pm – 6.30pm
FREE
Opening with the announcement of the winning entries for the Pooling Ideas: We are what we share competition, this seminar provides a forum for discussion of the importance of remix, reuse and collaborative innovation in a digital society.
Join John Jacobs of ABC's collaborative media site, The Pool, and Elliott Bledsoe of Creative Commons Australia, along new media researcher Jean Burgess and Merri Randall, to discuss the way modern technologies have changed the definitions of creation and creator. |  |
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