Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category
Friday, January 16th, 2009
One of the questions I get when I speak and participate at events discussing the Creative Commons is from creators working with traditional publishers. I can rattle off a few facts and examples but to date have lacked a particularly coherent answer. I remain convinced that such creators ...
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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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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. ...
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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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