Archive for the ‘creative commons’ Category
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
To explore, expand and expound upon the emerging Australasian Commons, the Creative Commons Australia team have organised a free one-day symposium which investigates a range of activities, programme and philosophies driving open access and the cultural commons across Australia, New Zealand and South-East Asia. I'll be there, participating ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Interesting links for May 5th 2008 through May 6th 2008:
Little Brother ยป Download for Free - Cory Doctorow's new young adult novel "Little Brother" is out and is also available, in its entirety, as a free download. The novel explores issues of privacy and surveillance (among others) as they ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Anyone who has ever tried to explain the importance of Creative Commons licenses to a new audience has probably played them the wonderful CC Mayer and Bettle Animation which was created back in 2005 by Pete Foley and others gathered together by CC Australia. The video features two animated ...
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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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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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Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
As I'm sure you're aware, the Creative Commons organisation is in the midst of their annual fundraising efforts. CC are also concurrently holding their second annual CC Swag Photo Contest on Flickr. I've entered a couple of photos thus far (and hope to get time to try a few more), ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
The latest edition of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication is live, and contains an outstanding special section on "social network sites" edited by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison. I've not had a chance to read all the articles, yet, but I can say with certainty that danah boyd and Nicole ...
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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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Friday, October 19th, 2007
The 2007 Creative Commons Fundraising Drive is under way, so if you're concerned about ensuring that extreme copyright doesn't kill creativity, please consider donating. For me, ensuring that copyright laws don't lock away creative potential for the average person is incredibly important and I still think that Creative Commons is one of ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
As readers of this blog will know, I spent Friday at the Australian Blogging Conference at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct in Brisbane. It was a fabulous, stimulating and intellectually rich conference and a great end to Tama's-month-o-conferencing. I was the facilitator for the 'Blogging and Education' session ...
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