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Shorewood High School Makes Your Dreams Come True When Shorecrest challenged Shorewood to make a Lipdub video they didnt know what they were getting themselves into...

Artist Ashok Kumar Varma lends an all new vocabulary to art of collages. Check it out and give us your feedback...

This article is about creative commons, and how music artists are starting to prefer it over traditional copyright. Artists such as "Chuck D and the Fine Arts Militia" released their new single under creative commons, and encouraged people to copy it, mix it, criticize it and other things. Now the song has been incorporated into new types of music and videos, and every time those are viewed, it links back to the original artist, giving them immediate popularity. Once other artists saw how this was giving the band more fans, they started releasing their songs under creative commons as well. Copyright laws provide limited flexibility, and make it harder for artists to get as many fans as they would if they released their songs under Creative Commons. Artists and authors have been saying that creative commons allows others to "build upon their creativity -- without calling a lawyer first." Now, artists are making half of their money off downloads and the other half off licensing fees. However, while many artists and authors are starting to release their work under creative commons, others like major movie studios or record labels will not, because they already make plenty of money off the current traditional copyright system.

Creative Commons licenses are changing the media sharing environment of the internet. When people share media with a creative commons label, anybody is allowed to download, upload, and share it for free. This is good for artists who want to grow their fan bases, but bad for companies who are looking to profit from their work.

Dentyne's Make Face Time ad campaign.

Should the FTC make sure there is truth in Advertising on the Web, especially in Blogs and Tweets?

Should the FTC make sure there is truth in Advertising on the Web, especially in Blogs and Tweets?

In a piece reminiscent of classic "60 Minutes," USC journalism student Matt Schrader exposes the dirty side of parking enforcement and street cleaning in downtown Los Angeles. Schrader found that while parking enforcement is out in droves ticketing cars, and mostly on street cleaning days (making the city $15,000 an hour!), the streets they're patrolling aren't even being cleaned. The best line of the piece is from a guy who got ticketed on one of those streets: "They have the manpower to ticket you, but they don't have the manpower to actually do the job."

In a piece reminiscent of classic "60 Minutes," USC journalism student Matt Schrader exposes the dirty side of parking enforcement and street cleaning in downtown Los Angeles. Schrader found that while parking enforcement is out in droves ticketing cars, and mostly on street cleaning days (making the city $15,000 an hour!), the streets they're patrolling aren't even being cleaned. The best line of the piece is from a guy who got ticketed on one of those streets: "They have the manpower to ticket you, but they don't have the manpower to actually do the job."

Make in India Week saw a lively workshop on the survival of Indian traditional arts & crafts in the digital era, conducted by India Art n Design (dot) com. Check it out here…

Split level spaces for an advocate's office in a tight plot are what make this an interesting project. Read more to know how a contemporary solution can be the answer to a common problem…

Architecture is said to be the mother of all arts. Check out how emerging technology can now augment design process. NBBJ Architects make headway in implementing VR and AR...

This real-estate office, designed on the lines of a creative studio is a welcome change from the regular conventional corporate make-up. Check out the simple but clever design interventions and leave us your views…

So Istanbul's Sky Garden in Turkey makes smart use of congested space through a well-thought design. Check out this unconventional air-garden and leave us your views

French design Stephanie Marin designs a modular kit that can make any kind of furniture - completely to your design and style! Check it out and leave us your views...

...now AMC stands weirdly accused of making reference to 9/11, in its promotional poster for Mad Men's fifth season...

So here's a little weekend homework assignment for anyone who is interested. Make a 30 second documentary with a complete stranger. Be kind. Be courteous. Be original.

Frictionless sharing sounds good - but sometimes you'll go out of your way to put a little friction (or a little white lie) back in.

The pursuit of Architecture is just the same as stage acting: to move and delight one's heart, believe LAN Architects. Check out the Maillon Theatre in the making that perpetrates this notion. We await your feedback.

What Andy Clarke is trying to say is that although twitter is a very social site, it can not be used to its full potential because not as many ideas are exchanged. This is because people are afraid of their ideas being stolen, but with this new creative commons copyright partnership, people will never have to worry anymore. It allows people top share ideas and both get the amount of credit they deserve. Although this can be unnecessary for basic, "I just got milk at the store," tweets, it will be amazing for people who want to share ideas whether, they're intellectual or not.

Clarke is a world renown British web designer and author.

This article was written by Chris Snyder an email author for Wired on February 20, 2009

This article by Noam Cohen describes the controversy over the use of public photos on flickr. Flickr is a website used to share images with family and friends, which is now being used by company's and site's selling images without the approval of their owners. One example was Virgin Mobile's use of a picture of Alison Chang, a 15 year old, in one of their campaigns without her knowledge. The picture was under the protection of a creative commons that allowed it to be used for commercial use, making this issue more about privacy than about copyright. Virgin Mobile responded that they were "promoting creative freedom and didn't do anything wrong."

Using various forms of media (videos, pictures, psuedomagazines, phones, cartoons, etc.), this campaign will " do anything to make you aware of the signs of Stroke."

For PETA's new campaign to make fish more adorable, you can create your own "sea kitten." Will this campaign succeed in decreasing fish consumption?