We’ve seen a couple audiobook projects popup around Creative Commons licensed books recently (Lessig’s audiobook and Doctorow’s audiobook), but this new Open Audiobooks Project aims to collect recordings of public domain books. They’re kicking off the project by recording Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. If you’re a fan of the book, have a good voice,…

There’s a been good discussion about music and Creative Commons licenses happening on the pho list the last day or so. The most novel post comes from Jim Griffin: Here’s an example from my new reality: In our neighborhood (The Plains, VA, population 266) and in our region there are many people who adopt for…

Lucas Gonze: What I am thinking is that we need a tech social movement to fix web multimedia by insisting that web standards be followed. REST was such a movement in the protocol space. The Zeldman-inspired movement to use structural HTML and CSS only did the same thing with design. This would be a direct…

October 23 we posted about Nathan Yergler’s ccValidator web app, developed in response to our list of tech challenges. Challenged developers have been hard at work since: Nathan Yergler has created mozCC, an extension for Mozilla-based browsers that reads and displays CC metadata as you browse. In addition to creating mozCC and fixing ccValidator bugs,…