Le site web pour notre premier livre est en ligne! Il documente les aspirations de la communauté face à au champs en demandant comment nous nous engageons pour imaginer et créer des villes plus ouvertes. // The draft of the website for our first book is live. You'll find stories about how the community uses and advocates for this wild urban space.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Six months into the open publishing experiment. How's it going? In June 2009, Artefatica attended BookCamp Toronto. We started with an overview of what Artefatica is, the ideas we're toying around with, and what we're trying to accomplish. Then I talked about our first project and facilitated a 30-minute discussion on authorship, sharing, open culture, and using Creative Commons.
Sun, Oct 4, 2009
Laurence emailed me a few weeks ago to let me know that Arefatica is featured in the Fall 2009 issue of Maisonneuve. I knew it was going to be published, but had forgotten all about it. It's a nice piece. It starts off like this: "Having spent years working in communications for international development projects, Christine Prefontaine had long suspected that there was more to be gained than lost from sharing ideas, or even from having them stolen."
Mon, Jun 29, 2009
The result has been an unprecedented outpouring of creative works. As of early June, for instance, more than 3.6 billion photographs had been uploaded to Flickr alone. As the best of those works are now making their way into the broader cultural landscape, they're breaking mass media's stranglehold on the ownership of meaningful content.
Fri, May 29, 2009
Created as a side project by Borys Musielak and Adam Zielinski, two Polish movie addicts — who just happen to be Python programmers — Filmaster is an elegant networking site for film aficionados. It's free to join and members can run their own blog, discuss and rate movies, and receive personalized recommendations.
Fri, May 29, 2009
Led by the former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. And they want you to steal their work.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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