Sunday, December 5, 2010

Excellent Interview/Joi Ito of Creative Commons

The Observer: "Joi Ito, 44, an entrepreneur and venture capitalist with a particular interest in the world wide web, was an early investor in Twitter, Technorati, Flickr and Last.fm. He grew up in Japan and the US; he once owned a nightclub in Tokyo and worked as a DJ in Chicago. Time magazine hailed him as a member of the 'cyber-elite' in 1997 and two years ago Businessweek named him 'one of the 25 most influential people on the web'. Ito has a special interest in issues of copyright in the digital sphere and is CEO of the organization Creative Commons. ... "