http://openmediareview.com Collecting the best in what Open Media has to offer Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:15:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mike Linksvayer, from the Creative Commons, commented when I set up the site's Twitter stream that an Identi.ca account would be more appropriate given the site's focus. I retorted that it would only be useful if there was a nice WordPress plugin, like TwitterTools, to automate updating Identi.ca automatically. I ... http://openmediareview.com/2008/07/23/identica-account/ 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 ... http://openmediareview.com/2008/07/12/results-of-free-online-edition-of-neil-gaimans-american-gods/ 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 ... http://openmediareview.com/2008/07/11/new-edition-of-brave-men-run-matthew-wayne-selznicks-cc-licensed-novel-launches-july-13th/ 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 ... http://openmediareview.com/2008/07/11/flickr-user-cc-licensing-survey/ Got a story you think Open Media Review should be covering? Use the new suggest a link form to submit specific links for consideration. Your name and particulars are optional but if you choose to share them, we promise to only use them to give you credit for ... http://openmediareview.com/2008/07/10/new-suggest-a-link-form/ Open Media Review now has a dedicated Twitter stream. Posts here will also go out via Twitter, instantly.ShareThis http://openmediareview.com/2008/07/10/twitter-stream/ 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 ... http://openmediareview.com/2008/07/10/tor-authors-on-results-of-free-electronic-books/ Mur and I have completed moving this site to a new host, one I administrate, as she has stepped down as editor-in-chief and in lieu of shuttering the site offered me the job. I accepted figuring I'd give it a go, in terms of trying to meet a more ... http://openmediareview.com/2008/07/09/site-relaunched/ I'm sure you've heard of this by now... but have you heard it yet? I've been listening to the FLAC version since Monday. &All I could possibly say is wow! . . . no *uberWow*. 'theslip' is nine inch nails latest album. But unlike 'Ghost[1-4]' nin's last four digital albums, ... http://openmediareview.com/2008/05/07/trent-reznor-to-fans-thank-you/ Just to make sure I haven't confused anyone no there is no DRM on the music at opsound. &Yeah you're prolly thinking: okay this is prolly a bunch of hippy crap or looped-samples. Well you could prolly find it there, I haven't yet. Instead its inspired my current, &now entire, ... http://openmediareview.com/2008/05/07/discover-the-real-meaning-of-free/