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Year: 2009
DJ Vadim Remixes U in Secret ccMixter Event
by victor UncategorizedDJ Vadim and Creative Commons are celebrating ccMixter‘s fifth anniversary with Secret Mixter October ’09. In this event, the 6th of its kind on ccMixter, starting today, musicians and singers sign up to have their name put into a virtual hat. After the two week sign-up period, everyone is notified, in secret, with a remix…
"Beasts of New York" To See Physical Release
by cameron UncategorizedA little over two years ago award-winning novelist Jon Evans released Beasts Of New York, a self-described “children’s book for adults”, online and for free under our Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license. He chose this license to help facilitate sharing, a decision we elaborated upon previously: Evans wanted to write and release a novel his publishers…
"AcaWiki Increases Impact of Scholarly Research Using Web 2.0"
by Jane Park Open EducationAcaWiki, a project I briefly mentioned in Opening Education–the little things you can do, launches this week. Dubbed as the “Wikipedia for academic research,” AcaWiki’s mission is “to make academic research more accessible and interactive” by “[enabling] users to easily post and discuss human-readable summaries of academic papers and literature reviews online.” Founder Neeru Paharia…
Annual campaign kickoff — CC remix T-shirt by Shepard Fairey!
by melissa UncategorizedToday marks the launch of Creative Commons’ 5th Annual Fundraising Campaign. This year, more than ever before, it is vital that we all support choice and sharing online. Truly, everyone benefits from a free and open internet, and we have only just begun to see how beneficial a culture of sharing can be. We are…
Wikis Take Manhattan III is this Saturday!
by fbenenson Events, Open CultureWikis Take Manhattan is a scavenger hunt and free content photography contest aimed at illustrating Wikipedia and StreetsWiki articles covering sites and street features in Manhattan and across the five boroughs of New York City. Scheduled for Saturday, October 10, 2009, this event will be a sequel to the spring 2008 Wikipedia Takes Manhattan (WTM-1)…
Venezuela
by mike UncategorizedCarlos González R.; National Center for Information Technology (Centro Nacional de Tecnologías de Información)
"I Am What I Learn" Video Contest for Students
by Jane Park Open EducationStudents over 13, including all struggling college students, have a chance to win $1,000 from the U.S. Department of Education in their “I Am What I Learn” video contest. eSchool News reports that “to get students invested in their education, President Barack Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have announced a new video contest, asking…
A Brief Overview of U.S. Public Policy on OER from California's Community Colleges to the Obama Administration
by Jane Park UncategorizedThe Publius Project at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society offers a new essay on OER and public policy in the United States: A Brief Overview of U.S. Public Policy on OER from California’s Community Colleges to the Obama Administration . Written by Carolina Rossini and Erhardt Graeff, it does a great job of…
dublab Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary
by cameron Uncategorizeddublab, the nonprofit web radio collective we teamed up with to produce Into Infinity, is celebrating its 10th (!) anniversary during October. The celebration begins today with a ten-day series of events that includes live music, art installations, film screenings, and a variety of happenings that showcase dublab’s breadth and depth as an arts organization.…
Dutch Public Broadcaster VPRO Releases CC-licensed Documentaries
by fbenenson UncategorizedPaul Keller, one of our project leads for CC Netherlands just let us know about an exciting development from their public broadcaster, VPRO, who on Wednesday released 2 full length (and one more coming soon) documentaries under our CC-BY-NC-SA licenses. What’s great is that these documentaries are current pieces, not old selections from the back…