Learning with the Fang

I just love the fact that the podcast Dave and I do breaks all the rules and continues to reward us for doing so. The honour of hanging out with one of the brightest people on the planet is reward enough in itself, but sometimes little jewels pop out of the long tail. [...]

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I tip my hat to Leigh Blackall for his gutsy effort in tackling the tricky issues of using Creative Commons licenses skilfully. Leigh opened the webheads online convergence conference with his keynote talk by stepping outside his comfort zone, into the perilous waters of copyright. Leigh explains some of the unexpected restrictions that [...]

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I can almost see the day when all digital work that is subject to copyright will fade from view.  Those brilliant lawyers and middle managers from the music industry here in Aus have just sped the process considerably:
The Sydney Morning Herald:

Ms Heindl said that this could apply even if a person had
embedded a copyright-infringing [...]

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http://flickr.com/groups/ccswagcontest06/pool/
A big thanks to Kapn Kirk, Blakey and Antz for helping turn my crazy idea for the ‘Creative Commons Swag’ contest into a reality. The T-Shirt I ordered just in time for a rushed photo shoot and some photoshop munging. Here are my two favourites:
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The supply/demand Triangle photo below is one of the latest products of the MashUp that is occurring in my brain since listening to Prof Lawrence Lessig’s address to LinuxWorld 2006.  My original plan was to write a concise blog post (or maybe even white paper) summarizing neatly my reflections on this talk.
Instead, I have been [...]

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