Warsaw: Global Summit
Some highlights from the 2011 Creative Commons Global Summit First save up your bandwidth for 40min of amazing tunes from the Usta Concert Global Party at the Zacheta Art Gallery. Berglind Osk Bergsdottir: Global Summit Recap She has some great quotes from the conference “Websites or only our tools, creative innovation is the goal”...
CC OER Hero: Mark Horner
Physicist turned Open and Collaborative Resources champion, Shuttleworth Fellow Dr Mark Horner is beyond busy. Mark co-developed Free High School Science Text (FHSST) in 2002. FHSST aims to provide free science and mathematics textbooks for Grades 10 to 12 science learners in South Africa. Mark and co-developer Sam Halliday were post-grad students at UCT when they struck on...
Who loves CC? Photographer André van Rooyen loves CC
I fell in LOVE with Andre photography of the Western Cape, then I saw his pics of the Karoo and nearly died but when I discovered he’s a member of the CC tribe already, I loved him with heat of a 1000 suns. While it’s often easy to celebrate the famous CC stories it’s important...
When Patents Attack!
One of my favourite podcasts is This American Life (TAL) from National Public Radio in the US. It’s a one-hour weekly radio show hosted by the charming and highly crush worthily Ira Glass. Recently TAL dedicated an entire episode to patents. Or more accurately to the disruptive nature of patents and patent trolls. US Patents were originally intended to support...
Ted Talks we love: or how Chris Brown made it back to itunes top 10
We watch a lot of TED. The reason we all can watch a lot of TED is because TED licences their videos under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. I can’t imagine a world without TEDTalks. My education would have stopped the moment I took off the square cap and gown, there would be a lot less discussion at...
