Archive for March, 2008
Friday, March 28th, 2008
It's been gratifying to me to see my fellow podcasting authors hit it big, their free works hitting the shelves in the world of publishing. They've done a lot of work in podcasting - not to mention they took a real chance in putting their work out for free - ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
One of the biggest problems with Creative Commons is simply that enough people don't know about it. And heck, that's not CC's fault, not entirely. I try to do my part to let people know about it, and even though it's beautifully written and easy to understand, some people still ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Several years ago a US television network tried to promote rerun season as, "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you!" Back then I scoffed, but now I abashedly claim the same thing.
I've been absent, and I apologize (and am very grateful to my other bloggers for keeping this ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
I first read ElfQuest in college and immediately fell in love with the series, voraciously devouring back issues and following the current issues for a number of years. The art was distinctive and the writing mature and sophisticated. I even had the distinct pleasure of meeting one of ...
Posted in Favorites, Open Fiction, Open News | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Natalie Metzger wrote in to tell us about the new Creative Commons DVD.
Creative Commons recently released a live DVD called LiveContent 2.0. It looks like it is a Fedora live DVD (Linux) with oodles of CC licensed content goodness contained within (including audio, text, video, and educational resources). It's interesting ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I am a huge fan of R. Stevens and Diesel Sweeties. Before you click that link, just fair warning that this web comic is not to everyone's taste. Some of it is a bit iffy in terms of being NSFW. If you don't mind slightly risque, strongly ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
Tabz tweeted today that NPR has forced out its CEO, Ken Stern.
He's leaving the company even though in Sterne's nine years at NPR (first as COO then CEO) he helped with the following:
The audience for NPR programs has doubled to 26 million listeners a week. NPR built an endowment pretty ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
The Creative Commons blog reported in July that Strange Horizons (recently featured in OMR) is giving its authors the ability to publish via CC. This is a decision the individual authors of articles and stories are making, not the magazine as a whole, so please check the license of any ...
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Friday, March 7th, 2008
If you're like me and are unable to attend South by Southwest (wah), the following information might be of use to you - Jason writes to tell us that Wired reports you can Download SXSW 2008 Showcase Bands in One Big Torrent File - check out all the bands that ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
It looks like every aspect of this album was experimental, what started as an EP ended up as four volumes totaling 36 tracks.
Eyes were closed, hands played instruments and it began. Within a matter of days it became clear we were on to something, and a lot of material began ...
Posted in Open Music, Open News | 3 Comments »
