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CC Salon Boston is Tonight!
by fbenenson EventsIn conjunction with Pecha Kucha Boston 8, there will be a CC Salon tonight in Boston. Here are the details: CC Salon Boston 1 Wed Feb 25 Mantra, 52 Temple Pl, Boston (near Park St T) Co-hosted by Creative Commons, Participatory Culture Foundation and Pecha Kucha Boston. Doors open at 630p for drinks and chit…
TweetCC Lets You CC License Your Twitter Feed
by fbenenson Open CultureUntil now, the only way to mix your microblog and Creative Commons licenses was to sign up for the free-as-in-speech service identi.ca (or run your own instance of Laconica), which requires all posts to be under our Attribution license. But as of February 18th, thanks to the work of UK author Andy Clarke, you can…
Remix Georgia Wonder via Mixable
by fbenenson Open CultureGeorgia Wonder, the UK band who made headlines earlier this year for encouraging their fans to share their music, is participating in this year’s annual MIXABLE contest to support UK schools. The band has made the separated audio tracks from their song “Girl You Never Knew” available for download in both WAV and AIFF files…
REMINDER: CC Salon NYC Tomorrow Night
by fbenenson EventsJust a reminder that the Creative Commons Salons NYC is happening tomorrow night! Creative Commons Salons in NYC have been building momentum and tomorrow is our February salon. Come out to have some beers with the CC community (don’t worry, we’ll open it up early this time) watch some cool presentations, and meet some new…
MuseumPods Launches Creative Commons License Functionality
by fbenenson Open CultureYou’ll recall that we did a survey in collaboration with MuseumPods back in November asking basic questions about podcasting, MuseumPods, and Creative Commons. We’ve decided to release a summary of the results from the survey as one big PNG file (785px × 5080px, 170kb). This file was created using the Summary function of Google Doc’s…