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Open Art Network
The Open Art Network aims to empower artists working in digital formats by devising and promoting standards that encourage an open architecture for the Internet and digital media.
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Send that Stolen Music Back
Feeling guilty about all the singles and albums you have ‘stolen’ from the recording industry, aren’t you. They’ve explained how wrong it was, and now you’re very, very, sorry, right? Well…Send Them Back!! Update: Tim points me to dispositive’s post where he points out that since the RIAA doesn’t own the copyrights to your mp3s, […]
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Web Kitsch
Yes, the website is now an old enough artform to have its own kitsch. (As well as being a fantastic medium for the photographic record of more material kitsch objects). I love the kitschy enthusiasm with which it is described as well: Like beanbag chairs, lava lights, plastic lawn flamingos, or an old showing of […]
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Scam Baiting
The Guardian lifts the lid on Nigerian Scam Baiting: It has been described as the internet’s first blood sport and is fast becoming one of the web’s favourite pastimes. Fed up with having their inboxes clogged with emails from Nigerian fraudsters promising untold riches, the victims are finally hitting back. Scam-baiting – replying to the […]
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the sad, sad, story of mp3.com
It comes as no surprise that mp3.com, one-time revolutionary, recent bloated failure and boringly paranoid corporate bully has been sold, and the few plucky artists who haven’t yet jumped ship have been told to go jump. Oh well.
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The Open Video Project
More open content: The Open Video Project. The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Clips are searchable by keyword and freely downloadable, or you can view a fastforwarded quicktime version first. […]
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Creative Commons: copy, remix, share
The Creative Commons “Copy Me/Remix Me” CD is out. It features a variety of music from an even wider variety of artists. Among the featured musicians, you’ll find record-at-home independents, magnatune and opsound artists, world music groups, and small town rock bands. All tracks from the CD are available in mp3 format for downloading, listening, […]
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Wired Discovers Open Source
Thomas Goetz’s Wired article Open Source Everywhere unsuprisingly positions open source as efficient business practice first, an alternative to the more repressive manifestations of IP second. But I did like this pithy description of how open source might be measured: think of it as a spectrum or – better still – a rising diagonal line […]
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The Semantic Web Explained
For those who are conceptually challenged by the idea of the semantic web (I include myself): The Semantic Web, today. It’s OK, it’s in pictures. Thanks to metal machine music for another excellent link.
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::fibreculture:: [plug]
via my fibreculture subscription, an open invitation: | f i b r e c u l t u r e | || ||| |||| ||||||| || ||| || |||||| ||||| || |||| i n t e r n e t || ||| |||| ||||||| || ||| || |||||| ||||| || |||| theory | criticism | […]