Archive for September, 2008

Ben Rosenbaum Encouraging Remix of “The Ant King and Other Stories”

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

It is getting difficult to keep up with book and music releases that qualify as open content lately. Such a complaint to have, I know. I am way behind on both my reading and recommendations. Ben Rosenbaum's recent release of his short story collection, "The Ant King and Other ...

An Experiment in Open Textbooks

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Wired has a nice piece on Flat World Knowledge, a company experimenting with bringing some aspects of open content to college text books. The article provides a solid survey of the state of textbook publishing and how Flat World intends to innovate around some of the persistent complaints. ...

More on Feedbooks

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Michel over at the P2P Foundation, a group interested in peer production and peering models of all sorts, has some more background on Feedbooks. He contact them and they appear to have gladly given him some more information on their technology choices, features and how they'd ideally like to ...

Cory Doctorow’s “Content” Now Available

Monday, September 8th, 2008

This is Cory's first collection of non-fiction, gathering his best essays, speeches and white papers. I cannot understate how much Cory's work in this vein has influenced my own views on all aspects of open media. The book looks gorgeous judging by the information on its web page. As ...