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Gideon Burton

How a 19-year-old student became one of the hottest political photographers i... - 1 views

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    An example of someone succeeding at photography by seeking only reputation, not money, by publishing his work as Creative Commons-licensed.
Morgan Wills

Google Image Search Implements CC License Filtering - Creative Commons - 1 views

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    How handy!
Andrew DeWitt

xkcd: a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - 0 views

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    A funny comic strip for the intellectually minded. Randall Munroe, the creator of xkcd must be an open-source kind of guy because he has put something like a Creative Commons (noncommercial, attribution) license on his work.
Sean Watson

Has Greece escaped financial calamity? | Al Jazeera Blogs - 0 views

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    Al Jazeera has a creative commons license.
Brandon McCloskey

BBC News - The business of innovation: Steven Johnson - 0 views

  • The lone genius, beavering away in the seclusion of his lab is how most of us imagine the great moments of innovation have come into being. But is this really the whole story?
  • "[Good ideas] come from crowds, they come from networks. You know we have this clichéd idea of the lone genius having the eureka moment.
  • "And so much of that is because it's wonderfully set up for other people to build on top of other people's ideas. In many cases without asking for permission.
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  • "I think there's this abiding belief that markets drive innovation, corporations drive innovation, entrepreneurs driven by financial reward drive innovation, and while that's certainly true in many cases there's also this very rich long history of important world-changing ideas coming out of the more or less intellectual commons of the universities.
  • So what should companies be doing to foster innovation in their workforces?
  • "One of the lessons I've learned is that so many of these great innovators, Darwin is a great example of this, one shared characteristic they all seem to have is a lot of hobbies."
  • "Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down; but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies, frequent coffee houses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle, reinvent."
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    How the progress of technology and the economy are affected by creativity. Also the importance of isolation vs collaboration
Gideon Burton

Getty, Liberation of Masterpieces as Open Content by $techgnotic on deviantART - 0 views

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    A bold move by an important institution to open up its content.
Trevor Cox

Creative Commons Licensing - 0 views

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    I really want to get into this
Andrew DeWitt

Comic | The Public Domain | - 2 views

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    What we learned in class about copyright, put into comic book form.  Very easy to follow.
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    Wow, thanks for sharing. That's a great way to show how crazy copyright law is.
David Potter

What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message? - 0 views

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    A review of the Medium is the Message by Mark Federman, Chief Strategist McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology. This essay has a creative commons license.
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