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New free culture podcast: Grey Area

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Brian

Interesting new podcast by Jason Sigal, from the Free Music Archive. Jason is spinning off the podsafe portions of his WFMU show, as well as conversations with the likes of Eric Steuer of Creative Commons talkin’ CC, NC, CBC & … Continue reading →

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Break out the tinfoil… I need a new hat.

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Brian

Exciting synergies abound: Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to … Continue reading →

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Modern scholarship is a race against its own obsolescence

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Brian

Library card catalog shared CC by John Kannenberg I got my first experience of this reality when I was a graduate student of literature in the mid-1990’s. Back then [cue nostalgic music], if someone needed to assemble a list of … Continue reading →

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Real Fun with Google

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Brian

Via the most groovy Free Art and Technology (F.A.T) lab, detailed schematics and instructions on how to build your own (fake) Google Street View car. Once you are set up, the possibilities for dissonant diversion kind of become self-evident… Google … Continue reading →

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Curators can bring the crazy

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Brian

For some time, I’ve thought the notion of curation had some relevance as a model for teaching in rich, networked learning environments. An early proponent of this connection was George Siemens (short presentation here on Leigh’s blog). It’s also a … Continue reading →

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Pay up to support free culture

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Brian

It’s that time of year again. I have spilled a lot of verbiage about the world’s greatest radio station in this space over the years, and I’m almost at a loss to come up with something more. At this point, … Continue reading →

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Where’s the bottom-up brilliance?

Posted on November 9, 2009 by Brian

opened09 – follower relations shared CC by psychemedia One of my semi-regular listens in my weekly podcast rotation is Douglas Rushkoff’s weekly show on WFMU, the Media Squat. Rushkoff describes it as “freeform, bottom-up, open-source radio dedicated to solving some … Continue reading →

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“It’s not just free music; it’s good music”

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Brian

I wanted to spend some real time with the site before blogging about the Free Music Archive, and over that time my admiration for this project has continued to grow. The FMA describes itself thus: The Free Music Archive is … Continue reading →

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Cross the chasm with us at OpenEd 2009

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Brian

It’s going to be one hot summer here in Vancouver, as I am thrilled to be one of the co-organizers of the 6th Annual Open Education Conference, hosted by UBC at its downtown Robson Square campus, August 12-14. OpenEd has … Continue reading →

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People Like Us live at ZEMOS98

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Brian

My first day here in Seville for the ZEMOS98 Festival on the theme of Expanded Education was capped off by an unexpected treat, the chance to see one of my long-time heroes, the multimedia artist Vicki Bennett, AKA People Like … Continue reading →

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