At BookcampTO I got a lot of attention during the Kindle, Schmindle talk when I brought up changing attitudes towards print books in higher education. The reason I gave was that I downloaded books under Creative Commons, GFDL and free-as-in-beer licenses. I’d like to give more context and a few examples of the textbooks I’ve [...]
Image by Phil Gyford via Flickr When I buy a piece of media, whether it’s a book or movie or piece of music, I’d like to be able to enjoy it wherever I want on whatever device I want, without having to rebuy it. It’s already accepted that once you buy a CD you can [...]
Image by kayray via Flickr Canada has become a bit of a backwater when it comes to access to culture. We’re left out of Pandora, Hulu, and the Kindle. Canadian TV streaming is paltry when it comes to selection, a Pandora equivalent is nonexistant, and I didn’t think we had a Kindle alternative until today. [...]
I’m exhausted so I’ll keep this post short and sweet. NIN has released a new album for free! Grab it from him or grab it from my mirror. Looks like I still have 7mbit free, and that’s including seeding on BitTorrent.
I’m starting to think that I should make a page just for mirrors. First Ghosts I, then CNGPM, and now Free Culture’s audio and e-books. I really shouldn’t have been surprised that the audiobook was fan narrated. This is just the sort of thing that the creative commons derivatives-okay license was intended to allow. Even [...]
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