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blogs · 1 week to go until iSummit registration closes
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15/7/2008 19:02 · no comments
Well, believe it or not but the iSummit is only 14 days away, which means that the staff in South Africa and Japan need to start tallying numbers and assigning hotel rooms to all those who intend on coming to the iSummit in Sapporo. This means that registration is closing on Monday 21 July, at 4pm GMT + 2, giving you one week to login to the system to book your seat at the event...
blogs · New upgrades to icommons.org
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24/5/2008 00:41 · no comments
We have some exciting new upgrades to icommons.org to report! The latest updates to the site include:
- The ability to upload vertical pictures along with horizontal pictures to the site. We've also set the minimum picture size from 600 to 420 pixels, and you can upload both jpgs and pngs.
- Additions to our list of embedded videos that can be supported on the site - now video...
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resources · iSummit 08 programme structure document
6/2/2008 21:26 · no comments
Submissions for programme suggestions are opening soon for the Summit 08. This PDF document shows the suggested basic structure for every day of the iSummit, by displaying the times for keynote addresses, general sessions/panels, and Labs, which are a new addition to the Summit programme.
Labs are dedicated to specific themes, projects or mediums, it is up to the proposer to...
resources · The iSummit 2008 in Sapporo: presentation by CC Japan (pdf format)
1/2/2008 20:06 · no comments
At the iSummit 2008 planning workshop held in Johannesburg on 17 and 18 January, Yuko Noguchi presented 'The iSummit 2008 in Sapporo', which outlined the practical conditions and consequences of having the iSummit in Japan, and identified issues which need to be addressed during our planning event.
For feedback on problem-solving and brainstorming that took place at the event,...
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articles · "Blank-Media Taxing" Anything in Sight?
by Francis Deblauwe · voted on 17/7/2008 23:27 · 13 votes · no comments
Belgian Music Industry Gets Even Greedier
As in most European countries, a tax is levied on blank media in Belgium. The entertainment industry argues that this serves to compensate for the lost royalties from "pirated" music, i.e., copying and passing around of songs. This was originally aimed at cassettes (1996) but expanded to include CDs (2004). (As we all know, the movie...
articles · YouTube, Viacom, and Data Concerns
by Wojciech Gryc, Five Minutes to Midnight · voted on 15/7/2008 18:29 · 23 votes · no comments
Over the last few weeks, Viacom and Google have been in the news quite a bit due to their trial. Viacom is suing Google for $1 billion due to the amount of copyrighted material being posted on YouTube (which Google owns).
The Associated Press reports, "U.S. District Judge Louis L. Stanton authorized full access to the YouTube logs after Viacom Inc. and other copyright holders...
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articles · What is Tailcast?
by Howitt · commented on 29/5/2008 19:07 · 4 comments
Tailcast is an online community in which artists in all disciplines share their work with one another. Tailcast is for, by and about artists. Members can upload videos and still photographs, as well as post articles, short stories and poems. Multimedia presentations (poems read aloud with musical soundtracks, time-lapse videos of artists at work painting or sculpting, etc.) are...
resources · Jimmy Wales interview on 702
by JC · commented on 23/5/2008 18:37 · 11 votes · 3 comments
Click here to download and listen to the Jimmy Wales interview with 702, during his visit to South-Africa, where he was promoting the Wikipedia Academies.
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