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Can you remix? Want to be on our CD?
by neeru UncategorizedWe want you to make a remix of Bm Relocation Program’s song, Superego Exchange to put on the next Creative Commons promotional CD. Send us your remix, and we’ll feature the best entry on the CD. Superego Exchange is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license, which means you can make derivative works and remixes,…
People Like Us/Vicki Bennett
by matt UncategorizedVicki Bennett recently sat down to talk to us about her thoughts on how and why she creates audio and visual collage, the upcoming sampling license, and the legal issues surrounding her creativity.
10,000 Birds
by matt UncategorizedFans of the recent documentary hit movie “Winged Migration” might be interested in following this week’s featured content at the 10,000 Birds Blog. Written by a small team of casual bird-watchers, their goal is to document as many sightings of the roughly 10,000 bird species found in the world. So far, they’re up to 210.…
The CSS challenge
by matt UncategorizedHot on the heels of a popular web design demonstration at CSS zen garden, No Sight At Night has launched their own redesign challenge, asking designers to create new looks for the site using cascading style sheets (CSS), with all submissions licensed under a Creative Commons license for others to share.
The Textmapping Project
by matt UncategorizedThe Textmapping Project is a site aiming to improve reading comprehension by providing tutorials for teachers, homeschoolers, and education researchers. The practice of textmapping involves creating large scrolls containing information. Information presented in this way allows students to get an idea of the “big picture” and helps them figure out ways of gleaning relevant information…
As the Classics go Public
by matt UncategorizedBook Magazine recently published a list of the 50 best-selling classics in 2002, and blogger Eliot Landrum decided to improve upon it. He looked up the date that every book on the list is set to go into the public domain in the US (10 of the 50 already are), and republished the list here.…
Care to Remix? Visit Common Content
by neeru UncategorizedThere is a lot of great Creative Commons licensed work at Common Content — much of it — licensed to allow you, to remix and make derivative works. If you are entering the Creative Commons Moving Image Contest, Common Content would be a good source of seed material to remix as part of your entry.…
Creative Commons Moving Image Contest
by neeru UncategorizedGET CREATIVE! Enter the Creative Commons Moving Image Contest. Make a 2-minute moving image that describes Creative Commons’ mission. Win a computer, a digital video camera, or an iPod. An amazing panel of judges will select winners. Please read the official rules.
More on iCommons Finland
by glenn UncategorizedOur friends at HIIT in Finland have added an English explanation of their proposed changes for porting the Creative Commons licenses to Finland.
MIT Everyware
by matt UncategorizedThe September issue of Wired Magazine features an article called “MIT Everyware” about the OpenCourseWare project, which aims to offer material from every course at MIT, all under a Creative Commons license. As the article suggests, various educational organizations around the world have sprung up to help translate and disseminate the materials. Here’s a translation…