Significant news for the future of the music biz, and a clearly persuasive case study for openly licensed content: NIN’s Creative Commons licensed Ghosts I-IV has been making lots of headlines these days. First, there’s the critical acclaim and two Grammy nominations, which testify to…
(via Lessig) The Obama-Biden Transition Team website, change.gov, is now licensed under the most permissive CC license, CC Attribution 3.0. This is excellent news and a great step towards openness and transparency in the government. (For those of you wondering, apparently the creative works of…
When all is said and done, case studies are a rather modern method of information sampling. It wasn’t until the turn of the 20th century during the Golden Age of the Social Sciences that case studies became accepted as a major research methodology. It took…
Today’s the day to download the newest version of Mozilla Firefox, the fast and free browser. Firefox 3 has a number of cool features, which you can read about in this field guide. There is also the revamped ccSearch in the browser’s toolbar. This search…
I just received a lovely piano compilation by Michael Crawford, Geometric Visions: The Rough Draft. His music is released under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported, and enclosed in the CD cover is this beautiful message: Why Free Music? I don’t charge money for my music —…