A little over exactly a year after starting Free Culture News, we slowly lost steam and let this blog suffer. While we originally saw it as a burdenless way of keeping track of the news, it has become clear that it still takes a reasonable amount of effort to keep this alive. From our mission statement:
Keeping our posts minimal and frequent, and pointing to other sources, we try to bring the news as efficiently as possible.
While our posts were fairly minimal, they were not minimal enough. Adding images made them even less minimal, and navigating around wordpress, putting up a single post, took as long as 20 minutes, which was not the kind of efficiency we were looking for with this project. We still want to continue this, but we need a new medium to let that happen. We’ve decided to bring you the news via a microblog. Posting news has changed from taking 20 minutes to taking 20 seconds. So, please check it out.
Also, you should go to Free Culture X in DC because all the cool people are (and me as well).
Free Culture X, a conference of Students for Free Culture, will be held February 13th at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Keynote addresses will be given by Harvard Berkman Center co-founder Jonathan Zittrain, the co-founder of the public interest group Public Knowledge, Gigi Sohn, and the director of American University’s Center for Social Media, Pat Aufderheide.
The conference is focused on developing greater openness among institutions of higher education by specifically investigating:
- The politics of open networks,
- Global access to knowledge, and
- Open education.
Attendees have the option to pay-what-you-want with prizes (such as signed copies of books by Lawrence Lessig and Henry Jenkins or custom voicemail recordings by Jonathan Zittrain) awarded for sizable donations. With only a few weeks left, register today! http://conference.freeculture.org/register/