links for 2007-01-25
- PSFK: Pret Gives It All Away For Free “Pret are going Pret DIY are giving away loads of recipes on their packaging, on bags, on postcards and on their website.” (tags: openness yum)
- OnTheCommons.org | Authorship as a Collective Endeavor “A related piece in the same issue of Harper's is “On the Rights of Molotov Man,” which traces the cultural journey of a photograph. “ (tags: joy_garnett joywar fair-use free-culture)
- Boing Boing: HOWTO photograph smoke “Graham Jefferey of Sensitive Light takes miraculous photographs of smoke” (tags: aesthetics photography smoke)
- Second Life Herald: The Return of the Salon and the End of Mass Media “In this essay, I will say a bit about why such “cybersalons” are important, raise the question of whether they are endangered, and ask whether there is anything we must do to preserve them.” (tags: cyberculture)
- Boing Boing: Video websites that pay: an extensive report “It’s the most thorough analysis I’ve seen of websites that offer filmmakers and videobloggers money for their work.” (tags: monetisation video free-culture)
- SECOND LIFE: Virtual world’s supposed economy is ‘a pyramid scheme’ – Valleywag “But, as this financial consultant explains, anonymously, withdrawing money from the Benchmark-backed vitual world is about as hard as cashing out of a pyramid scheme” (tags: second-life economics fisking)
- i386's Chicken Soup Of Pain “If your interested in the PowerPC binaries for Linux you can get them here” (tags: second-life free-software powerpc linux)
- Boing Boing: ReasonableAgreement.org – the anti-EULA “Enter the anti-EULA.” (tags: ip-maximalism anti-bullshit satire)