activefree podcast http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/ for a free culture and sustainable economy en Copyright 2008 Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:45:32 +0000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss for a free culture and sustainable economy Freestyle words and music from Free Culture artist and social entrepreneur Colin Mutchler, who recently moved from Brooklyn, NY to Moret Sur Loing, France to get his MBA from INSEAD Business School. Colin Mutchler Colin Mutchler podcast@activefreemedia.com http://activefreemedia.com/podcast/images/podcast_logo.jpg activefree podcast http://activefreemedia.com/podcast/ activefree podcast Great Video - "Vote for Hope" by MC Yogi
Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/10/great_video_vot.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/10/great_video_vot.html Video Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:46:06 +0000 no 4:49 Video 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.
]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/10/colin_as_a_feat.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/10/colin_as_a_feat.html Free Culture Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:35:05 +0000 no 4:49 Free Culture Politics of Participation - Podcast with Robert Stromberg 2539085015_711cc3c29c_m.jpgThe 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, and more recently visited him 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.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/10/politics_of_par.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/10/politics_of_par.html Democracy Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:07:22 +0000 no 4:49 Democracy Skoll Scholar wins Said Prize at Oxford ChristieGeorge2.jpgProud 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

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/10/skoll_scholar_w.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/10/skoll_scholar_w.html Effectiveness Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:07:02 +0000 no 4:49 Effectiveness Language of My Reality - through TubeMogul After 3 years, I finally uploaded a video version of "Language of My Reality" through TubeMogul to Youtube, MySpace, and others. The best part about TubeMogul is that you only have to submit to one place, then it automatically submits to multiple sites and allows you to track metrics across all of them.

Read the full lyrics if interested.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/09/language_of_my.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/09/language_of_my.html Video Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:31:42 +0000 no 4:49 Video Fun Flash Eco-Footprint Calculator As mentioned previously, I think the most important tool that still needs to be created is an implicit carbon footprint calculator (so the data is based on reality, and users don't have to make up numbers submitted into a form).  However, in the meantime, the flash video footprint calculator from Earthday.net is one of the more fun I've seen. 

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/09/fun_flash_ecofo.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/09/fun_flash_ecofo.html Sustainability Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:29:20 +0000 no 4:49 Sustainability Internet Dream - Music Video from 2003 Internet Dream is a song and video about my love and dreams for the internet. The words were written while I was teaching at Public School 7 (K-6th grade) in East Harlem. The images were gathered from some of my own photographs, as well as some public domain photos and screen shots of websites.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/09/internet_dream.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/09/internet_dream.html Music Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:19:36 +0000 no 4:49 Music Beyond Lipstick, Please - Letter to MSNBC Hi,

I am a concerned voter. It is 2008. This is a historic election where our country is facing major challenges about how we choose to take responsibility for ourselves and our people, how we interact with other countries and cultures, and how we choose to impact the current and future changing climate and ecology.

And yet again, the conversation on stations like MSNBC is spending nearly a full news day bringing guests onto national television to discuss a comment about lipstick.

Yes, there is sexism and racism in our culture. But this election should not be about catch phrases that Barack Obama or John McCain say, or who is looking like a better candidate to win this week. It should be a constructive conversation about what's important to our citizens and our country.

Today's conversation reminds me of what John Stewart said to Tuck Carlson on Crossfire a few years ago applies to you as well: "You're hurting America."

As a citizen and consumer of your content, here is my request to you. Please lead and take responsibility for the conversation that you create on your national television station that millions of citizens and families watch every day.

Thank you,
Colin

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/09/beyond_lipstick.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/09/beyond_lipstick.html Democracy Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:48:01 +0000 no 4:49 Democracy Mazdar City in Dubai Check out Mazdar, the future green city being built in typical Dubai fashion. Lots of money, totally from scratch, and now, with 100% renewable energy and zero waste.

Link to Youtube video (embedding was disabled for some reason).

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/09/mazdar_city_in.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/09/mazdar_city_in.html Video Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:32:05 +0000 no 4:49 Video Twitter Spam - Why do you have to ruin every medium? Picture%204.png

Seriously, why do people try to abuse every interesting and useful new medium for the love of making money? For all the talk of useful + creative replacing interruptive advertising, obviously interruption is still effective at getting our attention. =(

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/08/twitter_spam_wh.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/2008/08/twitter_spam_wh.html Economy Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:34:14 +0000 no 4:49 Economy Politics of Participation - with Robert Stromberg 2539085015_711cc3c29c_m.jpgThe 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 the podcast.

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

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2008/10/politics_of_par.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2008/10/politics_of_par.html Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:45:32 +0000 no 4:49 Living Buildings & Green Realities with Ethan Timm (Updated) image_preview.jpg
The first 'active conversation' of the 2nd season of the activefree podcast is with college friend Ethan Timm, an Architectural Designer for SERA Architects in Portland, Oregon.

Among other things, the conversation includes his professional experience with one of the buildings in Cascadia's Living Building Challenge, his personal challenges of lenolium floors in his "green" house, and his interestingly cautionary views on the green product design craze.

He also mentioned the Kill-a-Watt, which is a simple product that measures how much energy your appliances are costing (you might be surprised).

Download the podcast.

Note: This version has updated audio which is a much better listening experience than the one uploaded last week.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2008/02/living_building_1.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2008/02/living_building_1.html Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:23:01 +0000 no 4:49 Open Green Intro v0.5 A draft presentation of "OpenGreen," a new project of Colin Mutchler and activefreemedia that seeks to demonstrate the value of open value chains for inspiring consumer behavior and demand toward a green culture and responsible econonomy.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2008/02/open_green_intr.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2008/02/open_green_intr.html Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:40:58 +0000 no 4:49 Ebb & Flow's "The Great Turning" Video Jen-TheGreatTurning774.jpgAn interesting holiday produced video by the site Ebb & Flow called The Great Turning. The video uses the CCmixter song "Mind Field" by DJ Blue, which is one of the now over 20 remixes of the 1999 spoken word piece A New System.

Check out the full credits for the video on Kent and Jen's Ebb & Flow blog.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2007/01/ebb_flows_the_g.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2007/01/ebb_flows_the_g.html Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:04:24 +0000 no 4:49 2006 Year in Ideas - NY Times Magazine In December, I picked up the cover of the Year in Ideas from the New York Times Magazine, and thought that the ideas seemed interesting so I read them over some beats as a spoken word piece and shared it on CCmixter. I hope you enjoy Teru's version of 2006 Year in Ideas, that also includes samples from the artists below.

- Sacrifice my Love by: sallee
- 2006 Year in Ideas - NY Times Magazine by: Colin Mutchler
- sax samples from vroum,vroum by: stefsax
- MARKET HACKER by: Ms.Muthaphukkin Vybe
-Fly drums by: MC Jack in the Box

Check out other versions at my ccmixter page.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2007/01/2006_year_in_id.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2007/01/2006_year_in_id.html Mon, 08 Jan 2007 02:52:13 +0000 no 4:49 Culture "Premixed" for Collaboration colin mutchler premixedOver the last few years, I released free a cappella tracks of song fragments through the popular remix site CCmixter.org, explicitly ‘premixed’ (prepared for remixing) for producers to build on my words and music. Over 60+ remixes later, I am releasing the best 10 tracks commercially, sharing the revenues with the producers, and helping to build the market for open source music.

Check out the Premixed Story video that shares how this unique album came to life.

Listen to samples, read the press release, and buy the album at colinmutchler.com. Currently, the album is available at iTunes and Napster.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2006/10/culture_premixe.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2006/10/culture_premixe.html Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:08:04 +0000 no 4:49 India Shining while the West is Asleep
caught in the flow
Originally uploaded by activefree.

Before I post my final podcast from my amazing year at Insead, I wanted to post the following quicktime presentation of my trip to Bangalore, Mumbai, and Kerala in India. Particularly now following a violent week in Mumbai, Lebanon and Israel, I wanted to make sure to post this.

Overall, the experience of visiting the 'chaotic democracy,' 'functional anarchy,' and 'lumbering elephant' was amazing. Hope the video comes through to all of you iTunes subscribers.

Download India Shining.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2006/07/india_shining_w.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2006/07/india_shining_w.html Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:58:55 +0000 no 4:49 Everyday Voices from Blue Ocean China
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Originally uploaded by si_si_ay.

The latest podcast from INSEAD Singapore highlights a new remix of "Everyday Choices" from teru as well as a new "Blue Ocean" song written collaboratively with friends while on a trip to China. Five remixes so far, and I include my favorite so far, "Blue Ocean Electro Rmx" by Beatbros. Once I head back to the France campus, I'll be talking with the authors of the Blue Ocean strategy book, W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, to see if they'll endorse the song.

Hope everyone is well. Keep up the good work and send feedback via the comments or over the voice mail at +1 206-984-3144.

Download activefree podcast episode 10.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2006/04/everyday_voices.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2006/04/everyday_voices.html Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:23:04 +0000 no 4:49 First Experiences of INSEAD Singapore My first podcast from my new home in Singapore, which has been wonderful so far. In addition to impressions of my first weeks in the third period at INSEAD (and the exciting course projects), I also share a remix of a new system by teru as well as a clip from a fun and slightly ridiculous song by Peter O'Neil from Philly about an amazing place in my home state of New Jersey, good ole Belmar.

Download the first Singapore podcast.

Hope all is well. In case you wonder, this is actually the 9th episode, not the 11th, which I mistakingly said in the podcast....

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2006/01/first_experienc.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2006/01/first_experienc.html Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:23:45 +0000 no 4:49 Happy New Year from Vietnam Live from Hanoi, Vietnam during an amazing 8 day trip with friend and filmmaker Samantha Farinella, this podcast includes a remix of "New System" by deutscheunschuld called one of the best CCmixter songs of 2005, as well as a really fun remix of my 1995 class president speech by shagrugge called "Colin Dynamite."

I'm now in Singapore getting ready for INSEAD classes and traveling in Southeast Asia. I'll be sure to keep the flow of words and music going. Please leave comments on the podcast here or call 206-984-3144 and leave a voicemail that I can hear for free.

Download Live from Hanoi podcast.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2006/01/happy_new_year.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2006/01/happy_new_year.html Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:37:44 +0000 no 4:49 Everyday Choices, "P2", and Love Generation
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Originally uploaded by activefree.

The latest activefree podcast (#7) begins with the latest premix, Everyday Choices by Colin and fourstones, includes a summary of the second period P2) at INSEAD, as well as snippets from a Business Week podcast on E-collaboration and Colin's current favorite song, Love Generation.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2005/12/everyday_choice.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2005/12/everyday_choice.html Mon, 12 Dec 2005 10:30:01 +0000 no 4:49 Sustainable Tunes from the Commons The latest activefree podcast (#6) includes music heard on Lisa Rein's "Songs from the Commons," as well as highlights from Colin's trip to a Sustainability Conference in Greece, some INSEAD moments, and another freestyle song.

Specific songs highlighted include:
CAN’T WE…
ASHWAN (vox written and performed by curious)
http://www.ccmixter.org/media/files/ashwan/1796

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2005/10/sustainable_tun.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2005/10/sustainable_tun.html Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:43:38 +0000 no 4:49 What is this Insead Dream? The latest activefree podcast (#5) includes live music from Insead students Eylem, Emad, and Colin (and Julian), as well as the first emailed mp3 clips from Insead alumni and NetVestibule creator Yann Lechelle and Gerald (student and basist). Enjoy! See you after my trip to Greece next week.


]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2005/09/what_is_this_in.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2005/09/what_is_this_in.html Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:27:06 +0000 no 4:49 Beauty, Pain, and EBITDA Check out the latest activefree podcast (#4) from Colin's new home in France.

Highlights include a sample from a new remix of More Than 2 Sides, an improv/freestyle song "EBITDA" (from Financial Accounting class), and some late night voices from last saturday's Ville Cerf Toga Party.

Also includes instrumentals from "History (instrumental)" by Comfortable Silence. Be well and take care.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2005/09/the_beauty_and.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2005/09/the_beauty_and.html Fri, 23 Sep 2005 23:24:27 +0000 no 4:49 Vaporware Tutorials and the Lost Sleep Blues vieux_moulin.jpgDownload activefree podcast #3.

The first full week at Insead was full of classes, dinners, homework (missed), and the new (and confusing) language of finance and accounting. This week's podcast starts off with a short "school" rap written back in 1999 when I was a teacher in Harlem. It also includes a spoken word piece about the week called "tutorial dreams," and then finishes up with an Insead original rap by co-MBA student Christine Driscoll, recorded live last night at the Vieux Moulin dinner party. It also includes "Love and the Electric Symphony" by NYC friend and musician Dien Vo.

]]> http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2005/09/vaporware_tutor.html http://www.activefreemedia.com/podcast/2005/09/vaporware_tutor.html Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:20:36 +0000 no 4:49