Archive for the ‘Consume’ Category
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Matthew Wayne Selznick poses a question that I have run into once or twice before. Which is the greater freedom, using unencumbered formats that might not be supported by some devices or deal with the tarball of DRM to work with all potential devices that may be able to ...
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation contacted me recently suggesting that his research would be of interest to our readers. He specifically recommended the web casts section of the foundation's not inconsiderable web site. He also recommends
...the companion section, Category:Podcasts...[both] are quite extensive directories of the best videos ...
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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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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 ...
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