Free Culture

Find out what I did, and what you can do
Every week or so I pop over to Technorati to find out what blogs are linking here. I love it because more often than not, I find another great blog to subscribe to. I also like finding new bloggers and new angles on the debate. Though last week one of the blogs had an article that read strangely similar. A sense of déjà vu crept over me, before I realised.
21 weeks 5 days ago
the tale of the amazing fan clip by Gabe Askew
I've wrote in the past about the advantages of being free and open with your music. I don't mean just give it away, but when a fan uses your music in say a video clip or a mashup; it's almost always better for everyone involved to leave it live, and put that cease and desist letter back in the draw.
22 weeks 1 day ago
Sharing, Filtering and Procreation - the natural flow of ideas
It's all About the FiltererThe value is not in the idea, rather the filter. The curator of ideas. The creator of new ideas. The sharer of relevant ideas.This is Part Two of  Information Commands To Be Shared, Denying It Will Cost You
28 weeks 23 hours ago
the value is in the filter, not the content
"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows.Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft)...
28 weeks 23 hours ago