Scott Kirsner has a report in Variety about the Consumer Electronics Show happening at the moment in Las Vegas, focusing on how we may be entering a new age of open architecture. If you wish you were at CES to gawk at all the new tech goodies you can watch some live footage on Mogulus and you can ask questions and comment via live chat.

Just how open is open when it comes to free downloads and remixing? Matt Hanson from A Swarm of Angels has proposed a framework to help define the “openness” of a piece of work: These are three proposed states for open media, each building on the next:   Open (O-): The baseline, concerned with freely consuming and sharing the content   Open source (O): Being able to view and remix the source files   Open Plus (O+): The ability to…