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Monthly Archives: December 2010
Magnatune–Online Creative Commons Music
Need music? Want it on your terms, to be able to mash it up, post it, and still stay legal? God luck with that. Remember, it was not until recently where you could not legally put your music on multiple sources that YOU owned. A fun thing called DRM, or digital rights management. The thought [...]
Posted in Creative Commons, open source
Tagged Creative Commons, education, internet, media, MPAA, open source, RIAA, schools
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Notion Ink’s Adam Tablet
Finally, after the Samsung Galaxy Tab, another decent Android tab comes to market. Notion Ink, a small start up, has been keeping a blog at http://notionink.wordpress.com/ for quite awhile highlighting their design process of a tablet that is: giving the user the complete freedom to define the basics and not the industry leaders. Till now [...]
Posted in hardware, open source, Productivity
Tagged android, browser, chrome, education, google, internet, linux, open source, schools
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A Little Help For Schools
Copyright can be very difficult for teachers to explain to students. Students just want to use content and not worry about citations, using it fairly, and mashing it up to make new content. Copyrighted works do not always allow this, and with online media, the regulations can be difficult to interpret and teach. Cory Doctorow, [...]
Posted in literature, open source
Tagged Creative Commons, doctorow, education, lessig, media, MPAA, open source, RIAA, schools
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WikiLeaks and Information
Just a quick little funny…not wanting to say too much, there are spies everywhere!! – Image used under Creative Commons license at: http://xkcd.com/834/
The Starter, By Scott Sigler
So I just purchased the latest novel by Scott Sigler, The Starter. The book, set in the distant future, chronicles an earthling (yes, it’s sci-fi) who played his way to starting quarterback on a Tier One Galactic Football League team. Ok, so stay with me, even if you are not a sci-fi type. I picked [...]
Posted in hardware, open source, OSS Applications
Tagged android, Creative Commons, education, lessig, linux, media, nook, RIAA, schools
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