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Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is Born!
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| Jono Bacon has announced the very first Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase!
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| For a long time now we have been shipping a package called example-content
| with each release of Ubuntu. This package provides a bunch of different
| pieces of content including audio, video, PDFs, OpenOffice.org documents and
| more. The idea is that you can use this content to kickstart your new Ubuntu
| system and see what it can do. example-content has been really useful, but it
| has been languishing a little recently, and then we had a rather interesting
| idea…
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http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/1616
88% of YouTube is New and Original Content, Professor Says
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| If you can watch it without dropping your litigation against YouTube, Viacom,
| you need to see a doctor right away. Seriously. I hope YouTube lawyers play
| it for the judge if you insist on going to trial.
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| Watch the part about the song that ended up being professionally released. It
| made the company some money. Cluestick: there is more than one business
| model, for those who can get with the new. Sooner or later, your shareholders
| will be furious with you if you don't course-correct and modernize. Yes. They
| will. Eventually, your shareholders will be YouTubers, you know. And you'll
| be what media used to be.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080803232159314
Recent:
Free Culture Gaming - 1st game night Saturday 8pm EDT
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| Some folks from Free Culture at Virginia Tech came up with and, more
| impressively, actually started a Free Culture Gaming club! Every week Free
| Culture Gaming will get together to play free games online with other free
| culture aficionados. All of the games we play will be 100% free software and
| free content, as per our standards.
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http://freeculture.org/blog/2008/08/01/free-culture-gaming-1st-game-night-saturday-8pm-edt/
Students for Free Culture Conference 2008
http://www.freeculturenyu.org/2008/07/11/students-for-free-culture-conference-2008/
Information Liberation
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| Other than in the realm of life-saving medicine, why should any of this
| matter to nonacademics? Well, for one thing, barriers to the spread of
| information are bad for capitalism. The dissemination of knowledge is almost
| as crucial as the production of it for the creation of wealth, and knowledge
| (like people) can't reproduce in isolation. It's easy to scoff at the rise of
| Madonna studies and other risible academic excrescences, but a flood of truly
| important research pours from campuses every day. The infrastructure that
| produces this work is surely one of America's greatest competitive
| advantages.
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| In fact, open access might help to moderate some of the worst forms of
| academic hokum, if only by holding them up to the light of day -- and perhaps
| by making taxpayers, parents and college donors more careful about where they
| send their money. Entering the realm of delirium for a moment, one can even
| imagine public exposure encouraging professors in the humanities and social
| sciences to write in plain English.
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| Keeping knowledge bottled up is also bad for the world's poor; indeed,
| opening up the research produced on America's campuses via the Internet is
| probably among the most cost-effective ways of helping underdeveloped
| countries rise from poverty. Closer to home, open access to scholarly work
| via the Internet would help counteract the plague of plagiarism that the
| Internet itself has abetted. Anyone suspecting a scholar of such chicanery
| could search for a phrase or two in Google and see if somebody else's work
| turns up with the same unusual text string.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120486540450119149.html
Related:
Blue GNU Focuses on Free Software Movement
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| Blue Gnu Media & Technology launched Blue GNU.biz, a news site focused on the
| Free Software movement. The company website and office are powered by Free
| Software.
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http://www.pr.com/press-release/47407
Newest FSF board member Hill discusses free software goals
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| Best known for his many roles in Debian, Hill is also a member of the Ubuntu
| Community Council, an advisor to One Laptop Per Child, a director of Software
| Freedom International, and the originator of several free software
| projects -- to say nothing of an active voice for the Free Culture Movement,
| and the occasional organizer of such activities as last fall's iPod
| Liberation Event in Cambridge, Mass. Hill recently took on his largest
| challenge yet as the youngest director on the Free Software Foundation's
| board of directors.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/116647
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