Barcelona Visió is a new video sharing site sponsored by Barcelona’s Town Hall, where anyone can upload their footage of Catalonia’s lovely capital city. The site currently hosts many short videos that capture Barcelona’s beauty, as well as a few longer clips that cover current issues and events. Most of the material is available for…
Photo by believekevin, CC BY-SA. A query to the cc-community mailing list asking for resources on the history of the copyleft movement led to many good suggestions and turned up the cool chalkboard timeline pictured above. While impressive visually, the chalkboard only covers 1998-2007 and leaves much important stuff out (such as the launch of…
The snappy DHTML puzzle license chooser contributed by Sylvain Zimmer is now live at ccLabs. The previous iteration was implemented in Flash, which Sylvain demonstrated was unecessary. Try it out and please use the feedback form at the bottom of the page. Thank Sylvain by visiting Jamendo, of which he is CTO.
OER Commons provides open educational resources for teaching and learning that are freely available on-line for everyone to use, whether you are an instructor, student, or self-learner. OER Commons uses Web 2.0 features such as tags, ratings, comments, reviews, and social networking in order to create an on-line experience that engages educators in sharing their…
When Ben from the very cool indie label BBE Music got in touch with us and asked if we would be interested in a DJ Vadim remix contest at ccMixter we thought about it … for about a half a millisecond! You see, in the remixing/turntable world DJ Vadim is nothing short of a superstar…
Congressman Mike Doyle gave a great speech about mash-up artist Girl Talk and mixtape king DJ Drama as part of last week’s Future of Radio congressional hearing. The 463 has the transcript and some teriffic analysis; SplashCast has the must-see video. “I hope that everyone involved will take a step back and ask themselves if…
To all the people that came out to the GOOD – CC party this past Monday – THANK YOU! The party was amazing. Truly. And rumor has it that it was also phenomenally successful in terms of dollars raised for CC. I will let you know what kind of numbers we’re talking about as soon…
Ficlets is a neat new site from AOL for collaborative fiction writing: Write 1024 characters or less. Others can write a sequel or prequel to your ficlet. Everything is licensed under CC Attribution-ShareAlike. I’m particularly excited to see this because something like it has been in the back of my head (and doubtless millions of…
Open music community Simuze has just released a free downloadable compilation of electronic music tracks published under various Creative Commons licenses. It’s called Share This Vibe and it’s available here.
Today’s New York Times features an excellent story on musician and Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil titled Gilberto Gil Hears the Future, Some Rights Reserved, featuring quotes from Lawrence Lessig: “Look at remixing on music sites, which has become a core of creativity on the Internet and produced a huge archive of legally usable…