Archive for the ‘Favorites’ Category
Saturday, December 6th, 2008
Wikipedia just announced a massive contribution to their Commons.
Starting on Thursday Dec 4, 2008, Wikimedia Commons will witness a massive upload of new images. We are anticipating about 100,000 files from a donation from the German Federal Archive. These images are mostly related to the history of Germany (including the ...
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Digital Tipping Point is a collaborative documentary built using open source principles and methods and covering the free software and open source phenomena and how these are expanding to culture more generally. The project is attempting to use video submitted to the Internet Archive to build the film. ...
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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 ...
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Mur Lafferty (who also originally founded this site) is the latest but not the least in a succession of independent authors leaping the gap into the world of traditional publishing. Mur did a stunning job launching her novel as a podcast work last year. So much so that she ...
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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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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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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Cory Doctorow has launched his latest novel, Little Brother, this past weekend. This is Doctorow's first young adult offering and one I had the good fortune to read in manuscript form. It is yet another example of how sophisticated the young adult market is today. I cannot ...
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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 ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Funny musicians (filk, parody, satire, etc) have long seen the Internet as a way to distribute their music to gain a larger following, and as a longtime fan of "Weird Al", I've been expanding my knowledge of several musicians through open media.
Favorites: Throwing Toasters- Grant Baciocco's band (podcast fans ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
I've been listening to podiobooks for some time, and even though this blog is new, I still feel that a lot of the older books need love. So when I announce I'm listening to something (relatively) new, I'll also give some love to an older, completed book that I enjoyed ...
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