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I hate presentations with a lot of words. No one reads them. Why bother? I’ve never understood the purpose of filling a slide with a bunch of words that no one is going to read. Most of the time people don’t even look at the words, let alone attempt to read them.

For the past six months I’ve been using PICOL for everything. PICOL (which stands for Pictorial Communication Language, in case you were wondering) is set of over 500 vector icons. It's a free download and you can check it out at picol.org. I’ve used it in decks and animations. I've used it for product labels and logos. I even use it on my resume.

It’s a brilliant resource and a brilliant idea. There's something inherently awesome about trying to create a standard for visual communications. It’s also licensed under the Creative Commons, so you can use it and adapt it however you want to. Because they are all vectors, it’s very easy to combine different icons together.

One of my new goals is to make a presentation that has no words at all. Or perhaps a blog made purely out of pictograms.

Filed under: communication, creative commons, iconography, icons, language, picol, pictograms, pictorial, presentations

todbaker says...

I wish I had discovered this before Halloween. It's creative commons Halloween music. Download these songs today and your spooky music mix is ready for next year.

Filed under: creative commons, halloween, music

joerg says...

Folge 1 Bashing Lasergehirne by Idiots.   
(download)

Nachdem ich jetzt, dank neuem Mailaccount, nun auch größere Dateien
verschicken kann, liefere ich euch die Pilotenfolge von idiots... nach.
Wie immer unter einer CC-by-nc-nd Lizenz, zum freien Weiterverbreiten.

Anderen Kram von Punkrockers Radio gibts in deren Downloadbereich.

Viel Spaß!

Filed under: CreativeCommons, idiots..., Podcast, Punkrockers Radio

h4rbl says...

If you have been around on the internets for a while, chances are you're already familiar with this video explaining the importance of the Amen break and the restrictions put on cultural output after extending copyright law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act

Why do i bring any of this up? What is significant about the Amen break? I'm talking about it here because i think it's story is a good example, illustrating the rise and subsequent problematic of digital sampling in relation to todays increasingly stringent copyright- and trademark laws.

To trace the history of the Amen break is to trace the history of a brief period of time, when it seemed digital tools offered a potentially unlimited amount of new forms of expression. where cultural production, at least musically, was full of of possibilities, by virtue of being able to freely appropriate from the musical past, to make new combiantions and thus new meanings. The story demonstates that a society "free to borrow and build upon the past is culturally richer then a controlled one", to use the words of Lawrence Lessig, Stanford law professor, copyright reform advocate and co founder of Creative Commons, an organisation offering a legal alternative to copyright control.

As we go forward examples like the Amen Break will become more and more rare, if nonexistent. A six circuit federal appeals court ruled in september of this year that recording artists must pay for every sample they use, not in the public domain, regardless of the length or recognizability of the samples in question. But because of various changes to US copyright laws, for example the copyright act of 1976 and the Sonny Bono copyright extention act of 1998, which extended copyrights into the mid 21st century, virtually all 20th century cultural output has been locked away from the public domain, barred from sampling unless one has deep pockets and expensive lawyers.

Filed under: 1976, 1998, 20th century, 21st century, amen break, breakbeat, copyright, copyright act, copyright control, copyright law, creative commons, cultural history, cultural output, cultural production, deep pockets, digital, digital sampling, expensive lawyers, expression, history, lawrence lessig, legal alternative, music, musical history, new combinations, new meanings, public domain, recreate, recycle, recycling, sample, sampling, Sonny Bono copyright extention act, stringent, trademark law, us copyright laws

joerg says...

Punk Und Andere Szenen Braucht Kein Schwein! by Punkrockers Radio Talk  
(download)

Wozu braucht man eigentlich irgendwelche Szenen? Für Musik brauch ich
den Punk nicht, Party geht auch ohne Skinhead, ein Lebensgefühl kann man
leben ohne es Emo zu nennen und gemeinsam für etwas einstehen geht auch
ohne Hardcore.

War der Punk nicht schon tot bevor der Großteil von euch überhaupt
geboren wurde? Ist nicht jede Szene eine Totgeburt oder überlebt das
Kind nur bis zum ersten großen Ansturm? Irgendwann wird die Blase doch
zu groß und aus der tollen Party wird Szenestreit. Und wozu einen ewig
währenden Totentanz veranstalten um sich selbst zu feiern?

Haben Szenen überhaupt ein Ziel? Was wenn dieses Ziel erreicht ist oder
das Konzept von den Menschen eingeholt wird?

Natürlich kann das auch schön sein zu wissen dass man nicht allein ist.
Sich mit Gleichgesinnten auszutauschen oder mit Andersdenken diskutieren
zu können. Etwas Totgeglaubtes nicht sterben zu lassen und für die
Nachwelt zu bewahren. Die Welt etwas bunter machen.

Egal ob Punk, Skinhead, Rockabilly, Emo, Straight Edge, Goth, was auch
immer: Ich glaube das alles braucht kein Schwein!

Ergebnis gibt es jetzt für euch zum Anhören, wie immer unter einer
CC-by-nc-nd Lizenz, zum freien Weiterverbreiten. Talk-Sendungen wird es,
zumindest von mir, erstmal keine mehr geben, aber schaut einfach mal
hier nach welche anderen Projekte es von mir in naher Zukunft geplant
sind.

Anderen Kram von Punkrockers Radio gibts in deren Downloadbereich.

Filed under: Call-In, CreativeCommons, Jugend, Podcast, Punkrockers Radio, Szene, Talk

joerg says...

Folge 2 - Talking Random by Idiots.   
(download)

Eine weitere Huldigung an grandiose Deutschpunkbandnamen wie "Exkrementbeton" und Studentenklischees.

Übrigens, was zur Hölle machen Pädagogen eigentlich genau? In der nächsten Folge wird es uns einer erklären!

 

Meinen Krams von Punkrockers Radio gibts übrigens auch in derem Downloadbereich.

Die Audio-Datei steht unter einer CC-by-nc-nd Lizenz. Feel free to share.

Filed under: CreativeCommons, idiots..., Podcast, Punkrockers Radio

Eddy says...

Creative commons is especially relevant for social media because it allows for truly open and free communication within the community. When you retain the traditional "all rights reserved" licence on your content, you're essentially preventing anyone from spreading your content to their network, which defeats the purpose of social media as a means of communication!

Filed under: art, creative commons, video

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Die erste Folge "idiots...", mit Jörg und Timo. Einige Erkenntnisse vorweg:

Das ganze steht unter einer CC-by-nc-nd Lizenz, zum Weiterverbreiten!

Filed under: Creative Commons, idiots...

Mike says...

Very cool songs, listening to them the whole day :-)

Filed under: Creative Commons, download, free, iTunes, iTunesLP, kostenlos

Certo says...

Primeiro foi na rusa (http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Cicciolina.jpg#); logo na italiana (a imaxe desta entrada está tomada dela); logo na portuguesa (http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Cicciolina.jpg) e, tamén somos profetas Creative Commons en España, na española (http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Cicciolina.jpg).

Insistimos unha vez máis: calquera das nosas imaxes poden ser empregadas por vostedes para o que queiran, Se nolo din, ou nola atribúen, xenial. Que non? Non nos imos anoxar!

Filed under: autobombo, Certo, Cicciolina, creative commons, flickr