Archive for the ‘Open News’ Category
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
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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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
No Starch is a fun, smaller, technology oriented publisher. As such, it is hardly surprising they would be willing to experiment with direct distribution through BitTorrent. They are releasing two titles, both by Leander Kahney noted Wired.com columnist; Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod. The books ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Remember our earlier story about Gaiman celebrating his blog's anniversary with an experiment, a book to be made available for free? The book in question was up for vote by his readers.
The poll results are in and the reader's selected American Gods. It will be available for free ...
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