I’ve been talking a lot about remixability lately, but Nat Torkington just pointed out that the web services and APIs from commercial organizations aren’t as infrastructural as we might think.
Offering the example of Amazon suing Alexaholic (for remixing Alexa’s data), he tells us that APIs are not “a commons of goodies to be built on [...]

Posted April 30, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: api, apis, free, free beer, free speech, mashups, public good, remixability, self interest. Be the first one.

Props to Tim for offering linking me to a remix of Feist’s Mushaboom. I like the original better, but, well, I’m also a fan of remixes.
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Posted November 10, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: feist, free, mp3, mushaboom, music, remix. Be the first one.

Jonathan Schwartz made the kind of news that makes Slash Dotters happy: he announced Sun is (sort of) giving away free servers. It’s a promotion, a media play, of course, but one that might make a few lucky people very happy.
Here’s the deal: Sun is really proud of their new T2000 eight core server. Each [...]

Posted February 26, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: 8core, 9.6ghz, big db, challenge, coolthreads, free, free server, Jonathan Schwartz, performance, server, solaris, sparc, sun, t2000, try and buy, try-n-buy, ultrasparc, wpopac. 9 Comments.

Zone Erogene has ten fonts available for free download, including Migraine Serif and the faux-cyrillic Perestroika.
Tip for Mac OS X users: rename the font to remove the “.txt” extension that will get added to the filename, then double-click it.
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Posted December 11, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: 3 grammes 5, arriere garde, c dans l'air, font, fonts, free, free fonts, irreversible, migraine sans, migraine serif, perestroika, petiote, phonetica, reclame, type, typeface, typefaces, zone erogene. 9 Comments.

Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and director of the Wikimedia Foundation, is working on his keynote for the Wikimania conference in Frankfurt. Ross Mayfield at Many2Many posted a preview and gives some background. What should we expect? Wales’ speech touches on ten things necessary for Free Culture:

Free the Encyclopedia!
Free the Dictionary!
Free the Curriculum!
Free the [...]

Posted August 8, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: free, free culture, jimmy wales, wikimania, wikimedia, wikimedia foundation, wikipedia. 2 Comments.

Font Diner offers some darn cool fonts. Go visit their site for freebies too.
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Posted April 10, 2003 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: font, font diner, fonts, free, free fonts. 20 Comments.