I’m thrilled to share the first episode of our podcast, Plays Well with Others, with our community today. It’s about the art, science, and mechanics of collaboration.
We’ve been thinking about the role of Creative Commons in 2017, an era where much of digital sharing culture exists within walled garden platforms, with liking and commenting on insta-photos and sharing playlists that can only be streamed. In other words, the web has changed since CC initially launched in 2001, and we are grappling …Read More““No tool is better than the people”: CC artists in conversation on Collaboration, Community, and the Commons”
We need your help! Over the next year, we will be investigating and reporting on 2-3 of the most compelling stories about collaboration in the commons. We want to tell the story of when and why a creator first decides to use CC, the kinds of connections they make online, how they invite and encourage …Read More“We want your story ideas about collaboration in the commons”
一旦设计被用于打印3D实体对象，我们应该如何归因cc授权的3D设计的作者?3D打印物品的归属或“查看源”的挑战在3D打印社区中广泛存在，这是CC更大网络的活跃部分。It is multi-layered and speaks to existing needs by …Read More“How should we attribute 3D printed objects?”
Rice University’s Connexions and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Signal Process Society (IEEE-SPS) recently announced the release of a set of open educational resources on signal processing. The materials allow engineering instructors to mix and match to build customized courses, textbooks and study guides, and are useful for practicing engineers for their own …Read More“IEEE teams up with Connexions to deliver high-quality, peer-reviewed engineering OER”
You have probably already noticed that through this series of posts we are proceeding along a trend from general high-level questions to the more practical ones of measurement and evaluation. So, it shouldn’t surprise you that our next nuts-and-bolts step is to start touring the different fields in which CC is active and analyzing its …Read More“CC's Contribution to Welfare, Field-by-Field: The Separate Contribution to Collaboration & Sharing”
FLOSS Manuals, true to its name, produces manuals for free software applications. The manuals themselves are freely licensed and often written in book sprints. This January, as part of the Transmediale festival in Berlin, FLOSS Manuals attempted its first non-manual booksprint — a considerably harder task, as no structure is implied. Only the book title, …Read More“Collaborative² Futures”
FLOSS Manuals, true to its name, produces manuals for free software applications. The manuals themselves are freely licensed and often written in book sprints. This January, as part of the Transmediale festival in Berlin, FLOSS Manuals attempted its first non-manual booksprint — a considerably harder task, as no structure is implied. Only the book title, …Read More“Collaborative² Futures”
为庆祝成立20周年，奥斯陆的RAM Galleri美术馆正在展示由68名ccMixter社区成员共同创作的“声音艺术”展览“The White Cube Remix”。The project began in November 2009 when Rolf Gerstlauer, exhibit curator at RAM, approached ccMixter users Sackjo22 and Gurdonark about creating a collaborative soundtrack …Read More“The White Cube Remix”
Our board member Hal Abelson points us to Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation , an important new paper by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel. If you’re interested in the theoretical case for the ascendancy of innovation and creativity in the commons — and for policy …Read More“Intellectual backing for the CC paradigm shift”
