You can now listen online to NPR’s conversation about the WIRED CD with Wired’s Chris Anderson and Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna.

This weekend in San Francisco: The Remix Hotel, a three-day “immersion in technology” and music featuring Dan the Automator (of the WIRED CD!) and hometown phenom Kid 606. I’m curious to see what some of these guests could do with the WIRED CD and will try to find out for myself.

One of the many cool aspects of the November issue of WIRED are the blurbs about each artist who contributed to the CD. In the print mag, they dot the many-page Creative Commons spread like Easter eggs. Example: Track 7: Dan the Automator/Relaxation Spa Treatment The busy brain behind groups like Deltron 3030, Dr. Octagon,…

Another goodie from the elves in the CC Geek Workshop, this time for our friends using Linux; in particular, Gnome users. The new tool, as of yet unnamed (suggestions?) adds a Creative Commons tab to the file properties of any MP3 file. For example, a track from Copy Me/Remix Me : As you can see,…

Neal Conan, of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, is interviewing WIRED editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and Le Tigre’s Kathleen Hanna at this very moment. Tune in to NPR to catch it (88.5 in the Bay Area); you can even call into the show and sound off. One caller just now, from Waco, Texas: “I have remixed…

So to speak. Tune in to NPR today for a special program about the WIRED CD. Out here in the Pacific US time zone, it’s slated for 12:30pm, but you may want to check the Talk of the Nation site for airtime in your area.

Just in time for Halloween, Free Culture.org is having a zombie flicks remix contest. All the newly remixed content will be licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. So get your resuscitators out and start chopping and remixing.

In case you hadn’t heard, knitting’s all the rage and has been for crafty hipsters for years (last xmas I got my first knitted scarf as a gift). One of the best sources for information and patterns is Knitty. For the past two years, they have put out quarterly issues that feature about a dozen…

iCommons has published a short academic article – in German – on open access policy and scientific research. Our contribution can be read online (login required).

If you missed the Creative Remix radio show this Sunday in San Francisco, you can still catch it online. Wow your friends with insight gleaned from Ben Walker’s look at the artistic remix through the ages — from ancient Greek poetry to modern historial fiction to aesthetic Nintendo hacks. Such insight might come in particularly…