Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Remember our earlier story about Gaiman celebrating his blog's anniversary with an experiment, a book to be made available for free? The book in question was up for vote by his readers.
The poll results are in and the reader's selected American Gods. It will be available for free ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
The author of The Long Tail, Chris Anderson has an article over at Wired launching his latest opus, Free!
The rise of "freeconomics" is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore's law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
This story is admittedly dated, but still worth pointing out. The books in questions are ebooks and apparently come without any DRM. The offer does require you to give up a little bit of personal info and the links to download the titles come in the form of ...
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Groklaw posted the transcript of a great interview with Nicholas Reville of Miro and the Participatory Culture Foundation. Miro is an open source media player built on democratic principles, both in access to open media as well as how it is built and used. If you haven't tried ...
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Saturday, February 16th, 2008
PC Haring on Twitter recently asked me what happened with the Harvard vote, and then I blushed as a sloppy blogger who didn't follow up on the news (yeah, but I don't think the New York Times followed up on it either!). So this morning I went looking for the ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Under US copyright, facts about the world are not copyrightable. They are not patentable either but that doesn't stop some entities from charging for access to such data. Especially when it is gather at expense. I'm guessing that is why the Australian government is planning an experiment ...
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
The glut of free information on the Internet can make you drunk with its excess. Free content galore, much of it open. But when creators of open content put it out there, more often than not we have an expectation to the consumers. (For the record, I'm mainly talking about ...
Posted in Consume, Open Fiction | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
Man I love Twitter - I've been out of the loop for a while due to my mac being in the shop and struggling with my dinosaur PC is no fun, sorry for my absence. But today Paul Jones from UNC mentioned this on Twitter and I got all giddy.
Turns ...
Posted in Art, Open News, Science | 2 Comments »
Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Boing Boing has the story. To celebrate the seventh anniversary of his blog, with his publisher's approval, Gaiman will be making one of his books available for free online, for a month. The implication is that if this experiment works well, more of his works may be made ...
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Monday, February 4th, 2008
This story doesn't exactly involve open media, per se, but I thought it was a novel use of an open platform. The organizers of the Cinequest Film Festival are use file sharing to handling submission and viewer voting on potential entrants.
I am a little annoyed at the editorial remarks ...
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