A National Public Radio (United States) story on audio books from early this month highlights two very different projects using CC tools. LibriVox provides free audiobooks of public domain works. The audiobooks themselves are dedicated to the public domain using the CC public domain dedication. LibriVox’s goal is “to record all the books in the…

All have been mentioned here before, but never all in one place. I’m talking about CC music podcasts, now cataloged on our wiki. Listen, you’re in for a treat. I guarantee it, having listened to and enjoyed nearly every espisode of all of the listed shows. By the way, the original CC music podcast is…

Yesterday Yahoo! release of a library of design patterns (think “best practices” for web interaction designers, though “design patterns” have a long history in software engineering) under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license. See the Rate An Object pattern for example. The “object” used in the example is a restaurant, but could be anything, say…

ccMixter tracks in-community mixversations. We’ve now released a very simple beta API that allows tracking remix relationships across sites. The API is implemented in ccHost, the GPL software that runs ccMixter, and you can implement it for your site. For details see ccMixter developer Victor Stone’s blog entry and the beta documentation. Feedback to the…

Maggie Hennefeld and Thessaly La Force filmed a short documentary at last month’s NYC Free Culture Summit. The short, available for download from the Internet Archive under a CC Attribution 2.5 License, features among others “retired activist and full time novelist” Cory Doctorow, CC staffers Francesca Rodriquez and Eric Steuer, and former CC intern Fred…