New featured commoner interview: Bram de Jong of Freesound. Here’s the first sentence of one of his answers to whet your appetite and prime your ears: Oh, yeah, entirely! Some of the people in Freesound are so dedicated to recording and creating sounds it’s amazing. Read the interview.

Last year frequent ccMixter collaborator Pat Chilla was discovered via a podcast of his ccMixter uploads and got a deal to do music for the next three seasons of TV show America’s Top Model. Coming full circle, or at least close to halfway around the globe, mariposaHD is a new HDTV show featuring Argentinian models,…

Annalee Newitz has a fun suggestion: I mean, it’s no accident that a horror movie like “The Ring” came out during the heyday of file sharing. Let’s think about it — the flick is about a haunted videocassette that will kill you unless you make a duplicate copy and show it to somebody else. It’s…

A new release of web-based office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation) ThinkFree Online adds the ability for users to mark their documents as CC licensed in ThinkFree’s DocExchange sharing portal. From ThinkFree’s announcement: “We’re particularly excited to see Creative Commons features integrated throughout ThinkFree Online’s workflow. Creators using ThinkFree Office can offer certain rights to…

Wikimania Awards will be given for free content in several categories at Wikimania, entries due August 1st. Side note: Wikimedia Commons has an excellent collection of content under liberal CC licenses. See our list of content curators. Thanks to Elizabeth Stark of FreeCulture.org for pointing out the Wikimania Awards. French Linux software company Mandriva has…