Archive for May, 2006

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

brian.jpgThis 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 Continue reading »

Exploring a structure for an open source business

theatre_mask_series_one_6.jpgHiya...

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. Continue reading »

Qumana From Heaven!

I've spent the last year workin my butt off on Flickr fer nothin! Yeah the friendships are great but people need to be remunerated - i like the WIN WIN economic model way better!!!!!!

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here's a couple more sites i'm excited about for Continue reading »

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 Continue reading »

Pearl Jam Moves Open Business

Jam.jpeg 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 Continue reading »

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 Continue reading »

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 Continue reading »

Interview with Beatpick – FairPlay Music Label

Beatpick 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 Continue reading »

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 Continue reading »

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 Continue reading »

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