Archive for the ‘Open Source’ Category

Advice from a Published Author on Negotiating a CC License

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 ...

Digital Tipping Point Documentary Project Releases Footage for Sharing, Remixing

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. ...

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. ...

Open and Free Video and Audio on Openness, Participation, and the Commons

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 ...