Archive for July, 2008
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I have been peripherally aware of Jonathan Zittrain's new book, "The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It".
Reader Kevin Crosby wrote in to recommend an interview with Zittrain on the podcast, Lawyer to Lawyer.
This is a legal podcast which does a survey review of hot topics. ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
Through a partnership with the fine folks at the Internet Archive, NASA is making its image collection available to the public online for the first time. The collection will be indexed and searchable and represent at first 21 of NASA's collection. There is apparently a plan over the ...
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
In an effort to get caught up as well as try to establish a habit of writing regularly, I am working through my backlog of bookmarked items. The oldest item I have to catch up on is this story about a short story collection from John Kessel, "The Baum ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Mike Linksvayer, from the Creative Commons, commented when I set up the site's Twitter stream that an Identi.ca account would be more appropriate given the site's focus. I retorted that it would only be useful if there was a nice WordPress plugin, like TwitterTools, to automate updating Identi.ca automatically.
I ...
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Saturday, July 12th, 2008
This seems to be the week where many publishers' experiments with giving works away are coming to fruition. I already shared Bloggasm's interview with authors participating in Tor's free ebook promotion. Now Neil Gaiman shares the results of the edition of American Gods that was posted online to ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Matt released his novel a few years back simultaneously as a podcast, a set of DRM-free electronic editions, and a print-on-demand edition. He has even utilized the Creative Commons Developing Nations license to allow commercial uses in countries that can most benefit from freer access to knowledge.
Brave Men Run ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Alek Tarkowski from CC Poland is conducting a survey on how CC licenses are understood and used through the Flickr photo sharing service. Identify information is purely optional, so you can take the survey completely anonymously. Alex is using the data to develop a report and the Creative ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Got a story you think Open Media Review should be covering? Use the new suggest a link form to submit specific links for consideration. Your name and particulars are optional but if you choose to share them, we promise to only use them to give you credit for ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Open Media Review now has a dedicated Twitter stream. Posts here will also go out via Twitter, instantly.
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Bloggasm has a nice piece summing up the results of Tor's free ebook giveaway so far. I like that the poster spoke with participating authors directly. The worst case saw the giveaway have no effect one way or another on the author's sales. One of the authors ...
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