Results tagged “creativecommons”

On Friday, Creative Commons founder, former Electronic Freedom Frontier board member, and copyright-turned-corruption guru Lawrence Lessig announced that he will be returning to Harvard to serve as a professor of law and faculty director of Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, continuing his recent anti-corruption work. Lessig was on hand Friday night to reacquaint himself with Harvard, sitting on a Creative Commons panel with James Boyle, Joi Ito, and Molly S. Van Houweling. The group was moderated by Jonathan Zittrain. The main theme of the evening pitted a tradition of control vs. a future of sharing.

Unfortunately the world of vegan gourmet dining is a small one, with most restaurants concentrated in the Veg-friendly cities of New York, San Francisco, and Portland.

A pair of blotter items reveals that the crack cocaine in Somerville is not making residents any smarter.

It was Guy Fawkes versus L. Rob Hubbard yesterday on Beacon Street. More than 100 people were outside Boston’s branch of The Church of Scientology yesterday, protesting the practices of the church, Boston NOW reported. Led by the Anti-Scientologist internet group Anonymous, word was spread about numerous protests worldwide through You Tube, message boards, and e-mail. Anonymous had previously announced that February 10th would be a day of mass protest of all Scientology churches from here to Berlin.

Randy Moss will not be going to Florida for the court hearing involving an incident in which a woman was allegedly injured at his home, prompting her to file a temporary restraining order.

We are optimistic about many things. We're optimistic about the Bruins' chances when it comes to the Stanley Cup. We're optimistic that the Red Sox will manage to land Johan Santana while keeping Jacoby Ellsbury on the roster. We're optimistic that the San Diego Charges will, after being defeated soundly at Gillette on Sunday, line up as a team at the 50-yard-line and bow down before Brady and Moss.

Famous people visit Harvard all the time, but the university announced that two equally well-known, yet quite different, women would be visiting soon. JK Rowling will be speaking at commencement, and the Harvard Lampoon will honor Paris Hilton on February 6. You'd think that Harry Potter creator JK Rowling and socialite Paris Hilton would have nothing in common, but you'd be surprised …

One can imagine that San Diego sports writers and fans are gleefully rubbing their hands together now that Patriot Randy Moss is distracted by accusations that he injured a woman.

Both the Herald and Globe wondered today about whether and why Victoria's Secret model Selita Ebanks was booed during a promotional appearance Sunday night at Gillette Stadium. Could it be that a stadium full of "red-blooded American football fans" (as the Herald's Inside Track ladies put it) actually booed any model, let alone a Victoria's Secret lass? Bostonist was there, and we heard all the boos. And much as we give credit to anyone speaking...

The Globe got misty-eyed today over the closing of Liquor Land in Roxbury, which will soon become a CVS. Liquor Land's demise is a plus-minus kind of story. The people who actually live in the neighborhood might be happy at the thought of one less liquor store and the arrival of a pharmacy. Others are saying it's gentrification. Alas, the liquor store's neighbors never get to decide what they want within walking distance, do...

Panel Discussion on the Gas Tank Saturday, October 27, 7:00 pm Savin Hill Yacht Club Free Part of the Dorchester Open Studios More info about the studios If you have lived in Boston for a long time, you are aware of the area's most prominent landmark next to the Citgo sign--the gas tank on I-93. If you haven't lived in Boston for long, you're probably wondering what's going on with the gas tank with the...

Massachusetts State Representatives Charles Murphy, of Burlington, and Patrick Natale, of Woburn, who are running against each other for a Senate seat, got all snippy with each other in the House chamber last Thursday. Murphy and Natale generally acted like two brothers who do the "Ma! He's touching me!" routine in the backseat of a car on a long road trip. Murphy told the Globe, "Natale employed a four-letter word or two and poked his...

We received entries from some super talented, active photographers like B.G. Lewandowski, Bonnie B and others. In the end, our winner set herself apart with her sheer enthusiasm. She wrote us twice to tell us she was working on her application. She convinced other flickr photographers to tag their photos with "bostonist", and described some of the fun things she'd like to do as the bostonist potd. She has a great eye and she writes thoughtful comments. Are we gushing yet?

This past September something innovative happened in Boston. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum launched a webcast. It wasn't just any webcast, it was a creative commons licensed release of concerts performed as part of the long standing museum concert series. It's allowed users world wide to take in a little classical music culture by downloading the file and playing it on their iPod, in the windows media center or whatever MP3 compatible device they choose....

Every once in a while a webcast comes around that Bostonist just adores. Of course, we want to share this adoration and what better way to accomplish this than to drop a review on the intertubes for your consumption? This week we review a 'cast that is produced by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: The Concert.

Many a Sunday finds Bostonist somewhat hung-over, looking at a greasy plate of bacon, eggs, and some sort of potato product. By the time brunch has finished we've already missed a great classical music concert at the Isabella Stewart Garner Museum. We feel rewarded when we do end up making it to the ISGM for the Sunday afternoon show. The ISGM offers a whole lot of what those smart folks call "fine art." Today, in a totally hip move, the museum launched a new webcast, The Concert that will let us catch all the classical goodness they offer up on Sundays under a deliciously unrestrictive Creative Commons license letting the sounds be heard and shared. The Concert won't be a replacement for a Sunday afternoon at the ISGM (it really is beautiful if you've never been), but it will allow us to catch up on those we miss, and give us a little culture to drop during a dinner party or an afternoon sitting around blogging.

Great Scott and O'Brien's Pub are offering a chance for you to pay for that $800 camera you bought with free music. They've splashed Flickr and Myspace with an offer for coveted "you + 1" guest list spots. The deal is pretty simple. Take a look at their upcoming shows. Write down a list of the shows you want to see, and can make it to the whole set. Send them an email with some sample photos (a link to your Flickr set will do) and the list of shows you want to capture. If they've still got spots to give away for those shows you're in. Your amateur photography could actually amount to something. Caveat here – they've promised full credit to the photographer, which you'd retain under creative commons, but if they're posting the photos on their Flickr set make sure you drop a copyright on the image itself or the scenario might not fully qualify as your work.

While perusing this week's issue of the Boston Phoenix we came across an ad for Old School Prom on the back page. It featured a young woman in yellow strapless prom dress, updo, and attitude-full look holding a massive mirror with the words "Now who's the fairest of them all?" written on it (as if to appeal to all the 'ugly duckings' out there who want to set the record straight). The details were...

A sly mention earlier this week of the wonders of Creative Commons licensing in a post about the Free Culture movement might have been a clue. Perhaps the repeated italicized credits for photos from Flickr users at the bottom of other posts were the tip off. Either way it is clear to us that Flickr is a great Web 2.0 application and a wonderful resource for us poor bloggers looking for great imagery without access (well, money to cough up for the huge fee) to the AP photo wire. Not only do we integrate Flickr photos into our posts with appropriately licensed photographs and attribution but we, just the other day, added event photos to our site.

One of the problems with being as terribly derivative as Bostonist sometimes tends to be is that it's hard to find photos. It's easy to re-hash a Globe story and add some snarky commentary, but using the Globe's actual pictures that they paid actual photographers to take is, well, frowned upon. Because of this, we're very interested in the Free Culture movement, which seeks to challenge existing rules about the ownership of artistic creations. Most of the Free Culture movement isn't as crass and self-serving as we are, and we imagine its better elements will be on display on Thursday, when Northeastern hosts a panel discussion on the movement.

About a month ago Bostonist went in for our facelift. Our skin tightened up a bit but it left us with a problem. No, we didn’t have an onslaught of suitors since we are looking so hot. We’re clashing. As you may notice when visiting our site, other cities are promoted with the banner spot at the top of the page. The position, when not occupied by an advertiser or a group of google-relevant ads, contains a one-color banner for Bostonist (like that above) or another network site. We’re tired of the black on blue logo that we see when we’re checking in with chicagoist, miamist, or the like. We want your help to remedy the situation, so we’re holding a themed internet open-studio for local artists and internet juggernauts.