Archive for May, 2006
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
This seminal 1981 work by Brian Eno and David Byrne is being re-released for 2006 in a distinctly 'open' fashion. I won't claim to be familiar with the original, although friends tell me it is truly wondrous and testimonies to its influence are More »
- 31st May, 2006
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Exploring a structure for an open source business
Hiya...I'm in the midst of co-creating an industrial theatre company that does interactive role-play as a solution-generation tool, using Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre as the core tool.Our business model is to charge corporates for our interventions, and do all community service interventions free. More »
- 28th May, 2006
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BloodSpell – a Creative Commons-distributed animated series
BloodSpell , described by its creators as a "punk fantasy adventure", is innovative in a few ways. It's an independent, feature-length animated series, for starters, made on a budget of less than $10,000 (where conventional animated feature films would cost more like $100,000,000). It's made using More »
- 25th May, 2006
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Pearl Jam Moves Open Business
Pearl Jam just released a new song and video under a Creative Commons license. The video is available at Google Video. What seems odd is that they say they will only have it available there until the 1st of June. But its More »
- 24th May, 2006
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What is an OpenBusiness?
We started Openbusiness to share knowledge about business models that give a substantial portion of their main product away for free. By “free” we meant free as in “freedom” and also as in “free beer”, paraphrasing Richard Stallman’s famous illustration of the difference between “freed” from More »
- 20th May, 2006
- 45 Comments
Just do it!- A message from Nollywood
Via iCommons a new Openbusiness case: Last year, 2,001 movies were made in Nigeria. On average, production takes about 6 weeks and costs in the region of $10,000 - $100,000. About 60 new movies are distributed to the ‘army of retailers’ who sell them to More »
- 16th May, 2006
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Interview with Beatpick – FairPlay Music Label
The music industry has been infamously slow to address developments in customer habits and the web's architecture. Although both the indies and the majors have now made some half-hearted attempts to accommodate digital developments, their trad business models depend on exclusive and rabidly enforced control of More »
- 12th May, 2006
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Jamendo : more than 1000 Creative Commons music albums peer to peer’ed
The 1000 albums symbolic target has been crossed on jamendo.com ! A record since its creation in February 2005. Jamendo is an internet platform that distribute to a large scale Creative Commons licenced music. The original thing from jamendo, is that we distribute the More »
- 11th May, 2006
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IndieKarma – a new way to get paid for blogging
Here is a new idea that may get some traction: http://www.indiekarma.com/customer/Welcome.xhtml The site owners can register their site, and the users can register to contribute 1 cent when they read the site. The intersting part is that with this model, each user can define how much they can afford to More »
- 11th May, 2006
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