Hey folks, you may remember a little while ago I mentioned I’d been interviewed about free culture and online media by Karunya Keshav. It was in one of my Weekly Rewind articles. Karunya has been working on the project for a while and I’m pleased to say it’s all finished now. She sent me some links today, so I thought I’d pass them on. It’s only a short audio interview but it came out really well I think, so thanks to her.

My Interview can be found here: http://karunyakeshav.com/freeculture/create_1diy.html

The whole site is very interesting actually and I particularly enjoyed the other interview with songwriter Ben Walker, an artist I know well myself. His music is well worth checking out, I’ve played it on Rathole Radio many times. The whole project is about free culture and how it’s changed the way people work online. A subject close to my heart as you know.

So go and check out the sites and the videos. They’re very cool. Congrats to Karunya

Dan

filmaster.com

I’m a big fan of Free Culture and free open source web services too, licensed under the AGPL. The example I use most is probably Identi.ca, because I’m a noisy git and I like talking to people. I also wrote about the creation of Libre.fm a little while back, and I think we could really use more of these truly “free” web services. So when I heard about a new AGPL social network for film fans, I was very happy. The site is called Filmaster and I was lucky enough to have a chat with Borys Musielak (the site’s creator) about how it all came to fruition. Borys is also involved with the popular website Polish Linux, which you may have heard about. Read the rest of this entry »

The Weekly Rewind

It’s Rewind time again. I don’t think it’ll be a long one this week, but then I always say that and still end up with 1000 words. Let’s get into it:

On Sunday afternoon – technically last week I know but sod the rules, I’m in charge around here – I recorded a long and interesting chat with Fab and Chad Wollenberg of the Linux Basement podcast. Chad works in a K-12 school district in Virgina, US and he’s had some great success in moving them towards open source software; he has some advice for others looking to do the same and free their kids education. We talked to him about all sorts of things for a special episode of Linux Outlaws. Hard hitting issues you want to know about, such as does he really record in a basement? We got to the bottom of that (no pun intended) and you’ll be able to hear the results very soon. I don’t have a release date for the show yet but as soon as I do I’ll be sure to shout about it. On Monday we recorded and streamed another Linux Outlaws as always. There were plenty of people in the IRC channel (#linuxoutlaws), getting involved, having fun and telling us we are wrong, which is frequent. We’re trying to get a set show time on Monday’s so people can plan around when to get online and join us. I want to try and make it early evening in Europe when people are home from work. The way time zones are it’s always going to be a bad time for someone in some part of the world I’m afraid, but we’re thinking 7pm (UK time) on Mondays. Read the rest of this entry »