Assorted Materials: Johnny Ryan

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IIEA needs an intern (Digital Future)

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 11 September 2009

WE WANT YOU TO JOIN OUR TEAM
http://www.iiea.com/job-opportunities
Job spec: RESEARCH intern on The Digital Future
Payment: unpaid – opportunity to compete for paid position may arise

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Caffeine Curve

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 28 May 2009

Credit to the original genius who drew this (not me)

The MP3, its origins, and its impact

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 27 April 2009

Continuing on the music theme for my forthcoming book, and the disruption caused by the Internet to established industries…
In 1996, the song ‘Until it sleeps’ by Metallica became the first track to be illegally copied from CD, encoded as an MP3, and made available on the Internet by a user operating under the nickname ‘NetFrack’. [...]

Next Leap Report comment-on-able at http://nextleap.wordpress.com

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 17 December 2008

The report is now available for comment – at http://nextleap.wordpress.com
Photos and video of the launch will be posted soon…
or download PDF version [cover front / back]

Making better presentations

Posted by: johnnyryan on: 19 May 2008

In 2003, I delivered my worst presentation ever at the podium of the Royal Irish Academy. I stood and read an irrelevant academic paper, to a disinterested audience, and had planned my delivery so poorly that it was necessary to skip paragraphs at random to keep within time. Since then I’ve looked at how Hardt, [...]


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I'm interested in 4 things: A) THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET AND ITS LESSONS FOR THE FUTURE; B) Ireland’s Digital Competitiveness; c) the Political Impact of the Internet; D) How ideas - including violent political ideas - are communicated online.