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Tag Archives: media
The Viral Spiral
The Viral Spiral Lecture on C-SPAN
A great video introduction to the free culture movement by the author of The Virual Spiral, David Bollier. Everything from Richard Stallman, GNU/GPL, Creative Commons, and the public domain in general. You can read the whole book at the link above.
Finding new Open and Free Media
Cure for Boredom:
- Go to: The President Project Press Briefings Archive
- Copy the text from an interesting Press Briefing or any other document
- Go to: Tag Crowd
- Paste the text in the box and click Tag!
- Find a word that interests you.
- Go to: archive.org
- Search for media with that word. Try audio, moving pictures, text. Anything!
- Pick items that interest you.
- Enjoy open and free content!!!!!
Worldcat is better for the Environment
If you need to search for media, use the Worldcat search first. It will tell you if a library has the thing you are looking for nearby. Then you can always do an ILL (Inter-Library Loan) to obtain the material.