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Suw Charman-Anderson

Suw Charman-Anderson

Suw Charman-Anderson is a social software consultant and writer who specialises in the use of blogs and wikis behind the firewall. With a background in journalism, publishing and web design, Suw is now one of the UK's best known bloggers, frequently speaking at conferences and seminars.

She recently launched Kits and Mortar, a blog about planning a green, cat-friendly self-built home. Her personal blog is Chocolate and Vodka, and yes, she's married to Kevin.

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Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson has been an online journalist since 1996, designing, editing and writing websites for both broadcast and print media. In 1998, he joined the BBC and became their first online journalist based outside of the UK, covering the US for its award winning news website. After coming to the UK in 2005, he developed a blogging strategy for BBC news, helped launch a programme on the BBC's 5Live covering weblogs and podcasts and was on the team that launched the interactive radio programme World Have Your Say on the BBC World Service.

Kevin is now the Blogs Editor for The Guardian, where he is responsible for management, strategy and 'leading by doing' for Guardian Unlimited blogs.

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February 17, 2007

Open publishing - Something for nothing, three years on

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Nearly three years ago, Lawrence Lessig released his book, Free Culture, both in paper and online under a Creative Commons licence which allowed derivative works. A few days later, a disparate group of strangers gathered together to take advantage of that licence and create an audiobook version. Astonished at being a part of that process, and excited by the possibilities it seemed to open up to me, I wrote a long essay entitled Something for Nothing: The Free Culture AudioBook Project.

I just reread it and, three years later I find nothing in it has dated. Larry was kind enough to let me interview him for my blog post, and his words ring true now just as they did then. I strongly recommend that all De Montfort students reading this spend a little time reading both the essay, and exploring the links in it.

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Comments (1) + TrackBacks (0) | Category: Media 2.0 | Open publishing | Storytelling/Writing


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1. toni on March 1, 2007 2:00 PM writes...

I downloaded a copy of the Iraq study group report from fictionwise, printed it and read it in Cornwall at christmas in front of the lovely log fire.
I use a lot of open source stuff from the web for various sites I have and I also use a lot of creative commons video from the Prelinger archive which I then spend a lot of time reassembling with superimposed text to tell stories.

I take advantage of it and would not at all be surprised to one day be taker advantage of.
I often think it's a measure of how one views the world offline, how they use whats online.

Give and...... ye shall receive?

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