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KRUU, open source radio

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KRUU in Fairfield, Iowa is a community radio station run on open source software. Richard Poynder recently profiled the station: Moore’s use of the term “open radio” caught my attention. What, I wondered, did he mean? Amongst other things, it seems, he meant that KRUU has made a commitment to use only Open Source software.…

Netwaves

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Netwaves is an awesome Creative Commons music program broadcast on Radio Scorpio 106FM, Belgium’s oldest independent radio station. Announcements in Dutch, interviews conducted in English, music CC-licensed, drawn from the best of the netlabel scene. Every episode is downloadable from archive.org. Netwaves 13 features an interview with Lawrence Lessig. Netwaves is also producing offline events:…

Search 23,500 CC tracks via audio similarity or keyword

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Owl Multimedia has more than doubled the number of CC licensed tracks you can search via audio similarity (sounds like a mp3 you already have) or keywords. How? By adding over 10,000 tracks from Jamendo. You can find CC music through music via the CC Search Portal or directly at Owl Multimedia.

Online office suites: The clear winner includes CC

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It’s good to know that Computerworld’s “clear winner” among web-based word processing and spreadsheet office suites is also the first to include support for CC licensing (and the requisite Flickr API/CC implementation). See last July’s post about ThinkFree and CC (screenshot below from that post). Via Slashdot.

Mosaickr: another day, another Flickr API/CC mashup

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Mosaickr helps you build mosaics from Flickr photos published under an Attribution license (and your own photos). The process is simple: 1) choose a master image, which will serve as a template for the mosaic, 2) choose images that will be used to fill in the mosaic and 3) download your mosaic. Any art form…