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October 19, 2008

Great Video - "Vote for Hope" by MC Yogi

Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.

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October 6, 2008

Colin as a Featured Commoner on the CC blog

Check an interview with yours truly over on the Creative Commons blog. Feels cool to be recognized by the folks over at CC. Thanks Cameron!

Colin Mutchler is one of the original CC success stories. Back in 2003, he posted his song, My Life, to Opsound under a CC BY-SA license. A month later a violinist name Nora Beth added a violin track, calling the new work My Life Changed. It was one of the first instances of CC facilitating unsolicited collaboration, laying the ground work for the amazing remix culture we have seen develop over the past 5 years. Mutchler has since expanded his resume, working on photography and media production as well as his music. We caught up with him recently to find more about what he has been up to since we last checked in - needless to say, it has been a while.

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October 5, 2008

Politics of Participation - Podcast with Robert Stromberg

The second 'active conversation' of the 2nd season of the activefree podcast is with another college friend Robert Stromberg, , who I knew as a media activist man of action back during college at Duke and more recently visited in Knoxville, TN during my Free Culture tour in 2005.

Our phone conversation, recorded back July through FreeConference.com (unfortunately the quality of the audio is less than ideal), covers some of his background working with the Barack Obama campaign on the ground in North Carolina, and why he thinks that the approach of the campaign, if successful, may result in more long term participation than previous campaigns.

Download from the podcast.

Photograph "Thinking Obama" thanks to cfrye6395 via Creative Commons Search.

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Skoll Scholar wins Said Prize at Oxford

Proud to share the great news. My very own Christie George, a Skoll Scholar and member of the Oxford MBA class of 2007-08, was awarded the Saïd Prize by Dean Colin Mayer on 13 September. The £10,000 prize is awarded annually to the best MBA student. Read the full article and the background on her accomplishment.

Oxford Saïd Business School: Skoll Scholar wins Saïd Prize

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