Free software, free culture, open hardware, general public license, copyleft... all of these shareable movements converge in peer production for the benefit of all. Read more »
If it's Thursday, then it must be time for This Week in Sharing. Here are the links we didn't have time to cover this week, so we're passing 'em on to you. Read more »
When hacker George Hotz posted the code necessary to “jailbreak” (a hack that lets users gain full control over their hardware) the Sony Playstation 3, he had good reason to believe he was on solid legal ground. Read more »
Here is the weekly links round-up from around the whole web. Okay, probably only part of it. As always, enjoy and feel free to leave your own links in the comments section. Read more »
Popular music has always had an ambivalent relationship with American law and order, so it's unsurprising that the mash-up DJ Girl Talk has become a living example of what stringent intellectual property law makes impossible. Read more »
Where do conservative urbanists, liberal activists, and free culture advocates congregate? Last week it was in Berlin at the first ever International Commons Conference (ICC) held by the Commons Strategies Group and the Heinrich Boll Foundation. Read more »
A few weeks back, I wrote about authors Laird Harrison and Jesus Angel Garcia, who are leveraging the social web to distribute excerpts of their novels in unusual ways. Read more »
Tucked in a mountain valley on the outskirts of Asheville, North Carolina, Warren Wilson College has earned a reputation as a college whose graduates are well-versed in the practical realities of ecological work and life. Read more »
You're in the park surrounded by swaying willows, or maybe knee deep in goldenrod in someone's backyard, or sunk into the couch in a small apartment on Cayuga Street.
Usually, one way or another, a circle is formed. Read more »
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