Archive for the ‘copyright’ Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Interesting links for May 15th 2008 through May 16th 2008:
From Atari Joyboard to Wii Fit: 25 years of "exergaming" [Boing Boing Gadgets] - A fascinating look at the ancestors of the Nintendo WIi Fit system, from excercise bike/game hybrids to Dance, Dance Revolution.
US 'cyber-bully' mother indicted [BBC NEWS] - "A ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
After the recent debacle with Nine's Underbelly series becoming a star of the peer-to-peer downloading circuit, the network have taken an entirely different approach with their new offering Canal Road, making the initial episodes available as free downloads. From NineMSN: After battling illegal internet downloads of its hit ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Interesting links for April 8th 2008:
Why Academics Should Blog... [Confessions of an Aca/Fan] - Henry Jenkins makes a powerful argument as to why academics - and postgraduate students - should be blogging. Connections, networks, exposure and clarity are among the themes! :)
"I love a sunburnt country" [Flickr Blog] - ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Interesting links for April 2nd 2008:
Bringing the cloud with you [Official Google Docs Blog] - Google edges even further in Microsoft's heartland as Google Docs becomes available offline!
Google April Fool's Jokes Galore [Google Blogscoped} - A round-up of Google's extensive April Foos offerings. The best one, of course, was ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Interesting links for March 30th 2008:
Getting Started [Photoshop Express] - Great set of simple explanations (in video) for making the most of Photoshop Express.
Adobe Photoshop Express - Adobe's push into online applications continues, this time with a (very) scaled-down version of Photoshop as an online tool. Adobe are clearly getting ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Does making a book freely available online hurt or enhance the sales of the hardcopy? Advocates suggest that if you read a bit of the book online you're more likely to buy the hardcopy if you like it and finish reading it on paper. You're also more likely to recommend ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
We've been talking about all sorts of things to do with media production these past few weeks in my Digital Media unit, including some conversations about stock footage. So, it's rather timely to see that, as has been widely blogged elsewhere, one of Hillary Clinton's campaign advertisements has turned back ...
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
While Australians have long been noted as some of the most voracious downloaders of television, using bittorrent-based peer-to-peer sources has generally been focused on accessing UK and US shows which don't screen in Australia until some time (from weeks to years) after the original airdates. However, the recent case ...
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
One of the big announcements at the celebrations of Creative Commons' fifth birthday was the release of the CC+ (CCPlus) licensing arrangement which combines existing CC licenses with ability to also explicitly point to additional licensing (for example, terms for commercial use on an NC CC license). From the ...
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Sunday, October 28th, 2007
A hearty congratulations to the Aotearoa New Zealand Creative Commons folk who announced yesterday that they've successfully ported the Creative Commons licenses to the Aotearoa New Zealand legal system!
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