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• WIN TWO FREE SOCIETY SHIRTS!!!

  
  Pocket Full of Paper — Authority: 448
  Ayo! So I have a cool way you guys can win two free Society t-shirts (pictured above). Starting Monday at 3:00pm ET and ending Thursday 3:00pm ET , the person who gets the most people to sign up for the PFOP mailing list wins those two Society shirts in any size and some PFOP x LumzLenz stickers! Just tell your ...
  8 hours ago

• FCF Charter avoids free culture clichés

  
  IP Osgoode — Authority: 469
  Stuart Freen is a JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School.I’ll admit it: When I went to the website for the Charter for Innovation, Creativity, and Access to Knowledge and watched the inane video prominently posted on the front page my first impression was that it was going to be a bit foolish. After studying ...
  12 hours ago

• Thankful for…

  
  Byte Size Biology — Authority: 501
  In no particular order or context. No personal stuff and by no means a complete list: Wordpress (like, duh). Wikipedia (default for looking up new stuff) Wikis in general (great lab management tool. Don’t need LIMS) Open Access Publishing and Creative Commons licensing. FLOSS licensing ...
  3 days ago

• The Most Interesting Places to Visit in Manhattan

  
  World News — Authority: 168
  Whats not to love about New York City? My favorite borough is Manhattan, though each one certainly has its advantages. There are so many things to do in Manhattan, and I could spend a lifetime keeping myself busy.
  4 days ago

• 12/1/09: First Tuesdays: Free Admission to SF MOMA

  
  funcheapSF.com — Authority: 436
  In the striking Mario Botta-designed building, SFMOMA houses the West Coast’s most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century art including painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, design, and media arts. The stellar collection tells the story of modern and contemporary art through master works by Ansel ...
  4 days ago

• Microblogging OpenOffice.org

  
  SolidOffice — Authority: 92
  My team recently created a demonstration site to promote Six Apart’s new Motion platform and provide a space for OpenOffice.org community members and fans to share with each other at Share OpenOffice.org . The site is ideal to quickly post questions, links, and images and to embed videos and spark conversations ...
  1 week ago

• "The Plague of Free."

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 747
  Doug Rushkoff throws down the gauntlet in his "Radical Abundance" speech at the OReilly Web 2.0 conference. Some highlights of the speech: "The only real possible competition to Google and their economy of faux openness would be peer-to-peer exchange." "As a result of all this freedom the abundance of genuine ...
  1 week ago

• First Wikimedians’ Conference in Japan

  
  Wikimedia blog — Authority: 559
  The first ever Wikimedians’ conference is taking place in Tokyo this weekend. A group of Wikimedians, who were inspired by Wikimania 2008 in Alexandria, Egypt, gathered in Akihabara, Tokyo, Japan in the late summer of 2008. Those who traveled to Alexandria shared their excitement and inspiration gathered from ...
  1 week ago

• How I fluffed my exit lines | Mark Lawson

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  It was not boredom but anger that tempted me to leave a play in mid-show – but I lacked the courage In the middle decades of the 20th century, when theatre was testing the limits of taste, an off-stage sound-effect was regularly heard in the auditorium: the rat-a-tat of seat-backs clacking as scandalised ...
  1 week ago

• Thanks to Newsweek for Having Me at News/Geek

  
  shouting loudly — Authority: 112
  Just a quick, 24-hours-overdue thanks to the folks at the Newsweek Dev Team for hosting me last night at their third News/Geek event. I had a rollicking good time, the questions were awesome, and the post-talk celebration was even better. If you want the Powerpoint, it’s here in all its 12.2 MB glory . ...
  1 week ago

• You Might Also Like...

  
  Hipster, please!: +1 blog of nerd music & culture — Authority: 113
  Far be it from me to suggest that folks stop dropping kick-ass albums, but Christ-on-a-cracker, people, could you at least slow down?! I mean, 2009 has been positively packed with the new hotness! So much so, in fact, that its been tough to keep up. Ive had trouble finding the time to listen to all of these new ...
  1 week ago

• The Clear Six Apart Open Web

  
  A Fool's Wisdom — Authority: 110
  One of my inspirations Simon Willison , as well as his excellent deep analysis on numerous web development issues, provides pithy links and comments in from “elsewhere” on his blog. I highly recommend subscribing to his feed . Today, he shared this quote from Anil Dash : “It’s clear that, even those who ...
  1 week ago

• Free Culture Forum: Getting it Together

  
  open... — Authority: 558
  As regular readers will know, I write a lot about the related areas of openness, freedom, transparency and the commons, but its rare to find them literally coming together like this, in the Free Culture Forum : Across the planet, people are recognizing the need for an international space to build and coordinate a ...
  1 week ago

• Free Doesn’t Mean Devalued

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 117
  Ive tightened up my post on why free music doesnt mean devalued music for Techdirt. If youve read the original, its largely the same content, but cleaned up a little and much more concise. Free Doesnt Mean Devalued : The concept of zero took ages for societies to recognize, let alone understand. Mike has ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is There A Better Word Than “Balance” In The Copyright Debate?

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 117
  Credit: Brent and MariLynn [ CC BY ] Mike Masnick questions the word "balance" in the copyright debate: Ive long thought that balance is the wrong way to look at it. The purpose of copyright law is to incentivize the creation of new content, and thus the standard on which copyright law should be judged is one ...
  2 weeks ago

• Is the National Trust taking the piss? | Leo Hickman

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Encouraging gardeners to urinate on compost heaps makes perfect sense. Just leave the tea-and-cake brigade out of it There was plenty of mirth and tittering across the airwaves this morning as news broke that the National Trust is currently running a trial in which gardeners at Wimpole Hall in Cambridgeshire are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Its here! FSCONS 2009

  
  Digital Rights - Sound and Fury — Authority: 123
  The greatest local event of the year is upon us. If you did not already know its time for the annual Free Software and Free Culture conference. The event is organised by two tireless friends of mine Jonas Öberg & Henrik Sandklef and this years FSCONS is an excellent example of why they really are the dynamic ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pat Lee on Art and Originality

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 117
  One of my closest friends, Pat Lee, has a webcomic, The Fantastical Adventures of Caspian the Sea-Devil . The "about" section contains this fantastic gem on art and originality: This comic, like all comics, consists of written and drawn elements. The written element, the story, will be somewhat guided by my hand ...
  2 weeks ago

• Canonical and Creative Commons Meet Donations Target

  
  jonobacon@home — Authority: 506
  M elissa from the Creative Commons pointed me to the rather good news that Canonical’s offer to match Creative Commons donations up to $3000 has already been matched: Just five days ago we announced that Canonical would be generously matching every donation dollar for dollar for the next week – up to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Manhattan’s Most Interesting Neighborhoods

  
  Homeschool Facts — Authority: 158
  There are so many great things about Manhattan. From the liveliness to the convenience and the outright beauty of the city itself, residents and travelers alike fall in love with New York.
  3 weeks ago

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