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Mia Garlick gives a basic explanation of what Creative Commons is all about and how it relates to re-mixing and videoblogging. This is an MP3 recording of a 23 minute presentation that was delivered at the Ex'pression College of Digital Arts during the Outhink sponsored XpressionVlog event on Friday, November 18th, 2005.
We're putting on a videoblogging presentation and event at the Ex'pression College of Digital Art on Friday. Here's the first post to the new vlog.
I posted an article on "Collaborative Video" at spinflow.org, please check it out; I'd really appreciate your feedback (or pushback! I like that word.)
It covers a wide rage of group efforts centered around video in general and videoblogging in particular.
Here is clip from yesterday's videoblogging video conference in which Nathan Peters is discussing music and video collaboration.
Just one of the many topics dicussed.
I see Wired has jumped into the whole Creative Commons / BzzAgent debate. Actually, it looks more like BzzAgent paid for the interview - very one sided.
Wired has been on the zzzzzzz-list for some time. I think it may be time to move it to the trash bin.
Based on feedback from some listeners, I am adding a player and list in the (left) sidebar. Just press the play button to start it. It has pause, previous and next, as well as a volume slide control. It requires Flash. Please let me know if this works for you or not.
As usual, you can also find links to all these items on our WebJay playlist. Enjoy!
Tonight's new items include: Lisa Rein, JKP, Gregorians and Scotish. All in all an eclectic mix of dance, alternative and guitar.
As usual, you can find links to all these items on our WebJay playlist. Enjoy!
Here we are again. Got some more goodies posted on our WebJay playlists.
We got some new podcasts about mac's and media. Plus some interviews. Also a video on making videos. Some nice ambient, techno and dance music, plus an old time recording from 1907. Check the associated web page links on the playlists for more details.
I'm a little tired tonight and so I'll just say that we added about a dozen links to the following lists:
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
The Digital Future
THURSDAY ON C-SPAN AT 6:30PM ET
Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society Lessig is the author of "Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace" and an expert on the issues of copyright and "copyleft." He is the inventor of the revolutionary concept and application Creative Commons, which invites the right to use material under specific conditions.
QUESTIONS TO MR. LESSIG
THURSDAY ON C-SPAN AT 6:30PM ET
Does anyone want to set up a back channel for this and send in email?
Creative Commons announced today that ...
The final winners of the Freestyle Mix, and the Milita Mix contests
have been announced on Mixter. The top eleven Freestyle Mix entries
have won a spot on the Creative Commons release, The WIRED CD --
Ripped. Sampled. Mashed. Shared. (playing off the original WIRED CD), and free passes to the M3 Music Summit in Miami. The top track of the Militia Mix Contest won a spot on the next Fine Arts Militia Album Featuring Chuck D.
Brian Hardgroove of Fine Arts Militia has this to say: "Overall, I
would have been proud to put most of those mixes on the new record --
mad props to the producers."
If you havent checked out CC Mixter, then go there right now! It is an awesum place for CC licensed content. Why are you still reading this??? Go there now!!!
Ahhh, a more quiet day on the Internet Archive new contributions RSS feed. We have just a few entries, but they are all good ones.
First, we have Prof M Stereo with "Out of my way". To me it sounds a little like a spaghetti western soundtrack written by David Lynch. I particularly like the ethereal vocals. This is a CCMixter competition entry (see also here).
We also have another CCMixter remix competition piece called "Dangerouse" featuring cuts by Curious. You can't modify it and you can't sell it, but you can download it and pass it around to anyone you like.
Things turn funny when Happy Elf makes music and they are making quite a bit of it (11 songs!). They call it weird, but then people call me that and so what can I say but "I like it." They also self-categorize themselves as Club-house and Electropop.
A new album by HAPPY ELF with eleven songs from the past. The songs create a wonderful world, full of sounds, melodies, electronic beats and confused lyrics.
HAPPY ELF plays all instruments. The main instruments are the analogue synthesizers and drumcomputers. The music of HAPPY ELF is unique and unlike any existing style.
Lastly, we have a new video. This may not be the best thing for kids and I don't necessarily advocate the theme, but "Why I love shoplifting from Big Corporations" by Franklin Lopez is a very funny video and certainly suitable for our "Promises, promises" playlist.
As usual, you can find links to all these items on our WebJay playlist (except the video as already mentioned). Enjoy!
Good evening and welcome back once again. Glad you could make it (no matter what time it is where you are). Being the weekend, I thought a little DIY was appropriate and the Internet Archive RSS feed served up a nice treat: Podcasting 101. The description for this brief and entertaining podcast states:
Podcasting 101 is a primer for basic podcasting. Follow the Promiscuous Bullet team as they show a novice just how it's done, podcasting that is. This production covers the basic tools for creating audio content for distribution through Internet subscription channels.
Creative Commons just published an interesting view of the distribution of CC licenses. They state:
Last week we mentioned there were over 5 million web pages linking to Creative Commons licenses. This week, it has come to our attention that Yahoo! has updated their index to find well over 10 million web pages that link to our licenses.
We'll have to see how this compares with our Internet Archive Tonight data (see here) over time. It will be interesting to see if there are any interesting differences between Internet Archive contributors and general CC adopters. Here is their distribution chart (click for full sized version and complete CC article):
I moved from Outlook Express to Thunderbird recently. So far, so good. While not quite as feature rich in some areas, it excels in others (no pun intended). I really like that it runs on both the Mac and the PC and, even better, that it includes an integrated RSS aggregator. So I hooked in my news feeds (less than a 100, but look out Scoble) and now I have more "messages" to keep up with than than ever, but this is definitely an improvement over using bookmarks and the older style newsreaders.
Some of the feeds are from the Internet Archive and keep me informed of the latest submissions to the IA. Based on a relatively small sample so far, it seems that most of the contributions are from young people experimenting with music and videos. But there are lots of other interesting movies, images, texts and audio there too. There are a lot of live performances. I love this place.
I was curious to see how licensing was working out, knowing that the IA supports a Creative Commons interface. So I just tallied some rough stats from a small feed update. There were 73 items and, licensing wise, they broke down as follows:
36 Nothing (copyright or 
?)
15 
9 
8
3
1
1
Key:
- work is in the public domain
- must give attribution
- can't use commercially
- can't make derivatives
- must sharealike (use same license)
- sampling license
- sampling+ license
Aside: Makes me want an application to query the feeds and look up the licenses from the IA page (seems like an easy URL pattern to pick off). Does anyone know the easiest way to do this using Java or something simpler? (I confess that I am an old fogey who has yet to learn the in's and out's of Python, Zope or whatever the latest hot new language I should learn when there's time - ha!).
As I said, this is just a small sample and hardly random. However, it makes me think that people are a little reluctant to allow others to modify their work. No surprise. It would be interesting to look at these numbers broken down by media type, genre, etc.
Ok, it's official: I'm having too much fun using WebJay and the Internet Archive. Now I'm creating playlists centered around the videos people point out to me (usually visions of possible futures), together with wonderful old pieces from the 50's and 60 that I find in the Internet Archive's Prelinger Archives. Thanks again to Jon Udell, who originally pointed the way here with his great screencast. So, if you don't find me posting here, I'm probably busy adding media links to my playlists. Darn! That means it's time to figure how to get those lists showing up over here too. More of what Marc Cantor calls Digital Lifestyle Aggregation (DLA).
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