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A Blogora "Screening" of RIP: A Remix Manifesto?

Submitted by Jim Brown on May 5, 2009 - 11:46pm

During South By Southwest, I wasn't able to attend a screening of RIP: A Remix Manifesto:

In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.

Currents in Electronic Literacy: The Commons

Submitted by Jim Brown on August 26, 2008 - 9:18pm

The most recent issue of the CWRL's e-journal Currents in Electronic Literacy is now live. The issue's theme is "The Commons" and it features some heavyweights: Lawrence Lessig, Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Stuart A. Selber, Alan Liu, Cedrick May, and Robert Scholes.

It also includes the musings of a lightweight.

Congratulations to the editorial board - Mark Longaker, Justin Tremel,
Noël Radley, Lydia Wilmeth, and Kevin Psonak - on a fantastic issue.

Freeing the Debates

Submitted by Jim Brown on May 8, 2007 - 7:40am

There is a big push (led by Lawrence Lessig and others) for the presidential debates to be "free." That is, freely available on the Web so that citizens can analyze, blog, mashup, etc. CNN has recently announced that they will make the debates available via a creative commons license, MSNBC's debates from recent weeks are not free, and Fox has no plans to make them free. Once one outlet frees the debates, it doesn't seem to make much sense for the others to hold out, but they are holding out nonetheless. If you're interested in this, follow Lessig's blog for the latest updates.

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