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Disney Mashup on Fairuse and Copyright

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via Amalyah Keshet and Wired Magazine " Hijacked Disney Characters Explain Copyright " The ten minute movie, directed by Eric Faden , came out of Stanford University's Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program. Click here to play.

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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There were people already doing cool stuff, like InSTEDD and some great work around mashups of humanitarian data in Afghanistan, as well as folks discussing lauching cool new social enterprises (but we can't talk about them yet). I did a session on technology that does social good but doesn't make money, and got a dynamic group to show up.

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Remix This Power Point!

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Yesterday, I presented this seminar to University Extension Professionals. While browsing RSS reader today, I noticed someone had favorited my recursive mashup photo that I have on the cover the presentation. Do mashups and the notion of content remix finally fulfill the promises once made by proponents of learning objects?

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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

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Mike isn't doing this particular mashup for fun, he's trying to move forward some debate about methods and issues with specific licensing uses for mashups. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. University? Read his comments here. So here goes: 1. How about a private school? Study circle?

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Government 2.0 Presentation from Tara Hunt

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This same platform would have a series of APIs, so that doctors offices, schools, universities, researchers, community groups, local businesses and anyone with an interest could build applications, mashups and widgets that could use the data for the long tail of citizen needs.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. The Social Actions API now cross-references issues and locations with universal identifiers that have been assigned to them. I knew I wanted to be in the session even without really knowing why.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

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So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations. Drew Bernard has a blog about conversation, technology, activism, and life.

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