April 26th, 2008 | by bryan | published in Fan Created
Adrian McEwen, a fan of the TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conference, took it upon himself to put together a DVD of some of his favorite TED talks. Since more than 200 TED talks are available under a Creative Commons license, Adrian was free to do so, and we think that’s way cool.
Adrian’s goal was [...]
April 25th, 2008 | by bryan | published in Resources
I just found out about two huge sources of free audio samples licensed Creative Commons (Attribution, Commercial works allowed):
More than 10 GB of sound samples created for the One Laptop Per Child project, but available to everyone (About / Torrent). Includes music cues and sound effects.
Roughly 3 GB of “tempo-based sample library of synthetic loops” [...]
April 24th, 2008 | by bryan | published in Doing it Wrong
Stephen Fry (wikipedia entry) is a legendary entertainer with a lot to say. He’s been in the (mostly British) public eye for the last 25 years and has started podcasting his thoughts in what he calls “Stephen Fry’s Podgrams”. He’s eloquent, funny, succinct, and he doesn’t want me to link to his web site.
The terms [...]
April 23rd, 2008 | by bryan | published in Fan Created
“Let the wiki win” is what the man said by way of announcing the wiki dedicated to himself.
It’s this kind of brief geeky poetry which has garnered him such a large, dedicated following. Not only was it smart for the “geek rocker” to create a wiki (most of his fans have been taking an active [...]
April 23rd, 2008 | by bryan | published in Releases
Musician and music distribution pioneer Trent Reznor last night released the new single from an upcoming album. It’s called “Discipline”, and is available for free right now. There’s no official word on the copyright situation of the song (“Ghosts”, released just a few weeks ago, is Creative Commons), but the raw audio is available for [...]