I’m writing to you as the One Web Day Ambassador for July 9th 2008. One Web Day is a once-a-year celebration of all that is good about the Web. It’s organized by a non-profit team in New York City, but the celebrations take place all over the world. The Ambassadors project is designed to help…
Behance is many things – a creative network, an online magazine, a producer of creative tools, an index of creative professionals, and a purveyor of methodology for getting creative projects done. Perhaps it is better to think of Behance then as an organization that, in their own words, “designs products and services that empower the…
One of my favorite parts of my job as Creative Commons’ Culture Program Associate in New York is that I get to organize our Salons here. With that in mind, it gives me great pleasure to announce the next CC Salon NYC. The Open Planning Project has graciously allowed us to use their loft space…
Great news coming out recently that our good friends over at the awesome open source mobile phone project OpenMoko have been seeing rapid success with releasing their CAD design files for the FreeRunner phone under the Creative Commons Share-Alike license. Their open design approach has spurred adoption, becoming the basis for the Dash Express car…
It has always been a goal of Creative Commons to integrate our licenses into communities of creators of all skill levels, from those of amateurs to those of experienced professionals. This is why it is wonderful to see the industry magazine Digital Photo Pro spotlight our licenses and the important implications that professional photographers should…
Freddie Stevenson, a British singer-songwriter, recently unveiled his new album, All My Strange Companions to some nice praise stateside. Released under a CC BY-NC-SA license, All My Strange Companions features melodic, acoustic-based, pop that is sharable/remixable as long as Stevenson is credited, it is noncommercial in intenet, and is released under the same license if…
The iSummit, an annual conference that originally grew around Creative Commons, but has grown beyond CC to encompass related movements, has announced its 2008 schedule. As befitting a conference dedicated to global digital culture and hosted by Sapporo, Japan, the schedule is very diverse, including tracks on open education, open business, local/global collaboration, openness in…
Wikimedia Commons editor and Australian Brianna Laugher wrote up some thoughtful notes on Creative Commons Australia’s recent conference: Nonetheless, what can we learn from how CC conducts itself? I can’t speak for the other jurisdictions, but the Australian one is damn impressive. They do an incredible amount of gently-gently lobbying for the adoption of free…
The program for the First Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on Free Culture has been announced: We received 29 submissions for research presentations and each submission was reviewed by at least 3 reviewers, sometimes more! So the total was about 90 reviews written in a rather short amount of time. Of course we’re talking about extended abstracts…
Identi.ca, an open source/free software + open content = open service microblogging service launched today. From the FAQ: How is Identi.ca different from Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, others? Identi.ca is an Open Network Service. Our main goal is to provide a fair and transparent service that preserves users’ autonomy. In particular, all the software used…