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I am going to keep this fairly short as today has been a super-hectic day. Well, today Ubuntu 8.10 hit the tubes, and it is a proud moment for everyone in the Ubuntu community. A lot of people have mut a lot of hard work into every facet of the distribution, from writing the upstream [...]

Last night I went along to the launch party for Lawrence Lessig’s new book, Remix: Making Art And Commerce Thrive In The Hybrid Economy. This book is the bridge between Lessig moving from his studies in Free Culture to his work on reform in Congress. It was an excellent evening, and it was great to [...]

I just want to spend a few minutes sharing a wonderful story that Stani Michiels emailed me about earlier and which he blogged about here. Stani entered a competition in Holland to design a commemorative coin and produced an absolutely astonishingly beautiful entry, and one with aesthetics, class, metaphor and meaning. This in itself is [...]

Folks, we are really pleased to announce…Ubuntu Open Week! Ubuntu Open Week is a week of IRC tuition and Q+A sessions all about getting involved in the rock-and-roll world that is the Ubuntu community. We organise this week for the beginning of a new release cycle to help new contributors get involved. Thanks to Jorge [...]

Just wanted to mention a few events I will be at this week in San Francisco: Wed 29th Oct – Larry Lessig’s book party – W Hotel, 181 Third Street, San Francisco, CA – 6.30pm – I will be there to celebrate the release of Larry’s new book, and meet other Creative Commons people. Thu [...]

Well, Denied By Reign has released for about a day now, and I want to thank everyone for their kind comments and support behind the project. I am pretty tickled-pink with the response so far. I have been trying to keep track of write-ups of the project and the album, and so far I have [...]

Digg The Release I am proud to announce the final release of the debut Severed Fifth album Denied By Reign. You can go and download it in its entirety here. There are download links for both Ogg and MP3 as well as BitTorrent links. Thanks to Adam and Neuro for providing mirrors. The full album [...]

Quick FYI, I have registrered #severedfifth on irc.freenode.net for IRC fanatics. Obviously, I will be there for the release of the album tomorrow.

Well, after a weekend off of Sneak Peeks from Denied By Reign I want to give you the final three before I release the album tomorrow: Sneak Peek 9 – Ogg MP3 Sneak Peek 10 – Ogg MP3 Sneak Peek 11 – Ogg MP3 If you missed the others, here they are: Sneak Peek 1 [...]

From Joi: An excellent video explaining the Creative Commons and what it is here to do. Great work guys, and what a fantastic showcase of Free Culture.