There are a number of different sites offering music and sounds that are made available under a Creative Commons licence. Here is a list of useful links.

Boston.com posted an article on Tuesday 19 April 2005 which looked at the reason the open source software movement has been successful. The reason, it argues, is because it taps into the power of user innovation.

According to Mitch Ratcliffe at ZDNet.com, “there are approximately 52 e-reader devices coming to market in the next 12 months”. I am therefore about to embark on a quick research project, with a group of students, aimed at creating a simple workflow for getting a range of material online in epub format.

A regularly updated list of the open source software installed in the Multimedia Lab in Arcada.

Recently I have found four pieces of free software which seem to me to merit some attention: Portable Apps, AbiWord, The Filter and The Lifehouse Method.

Eeva Melvasalo sent me a list of online resources about blikis, including definitions, discussions and examples.

Here, from the Virtual Jungle blog is a list of alternate open and closed source Second Life clients, compiled by Danton Sideways.

Cory Ondrejka (who is Cory Linden in Second Life) posted a series of predictions for 2007 to Terra Nova. I have extracted some of them here.

Yesterday the recent instability inside Second Life (rule of thumb: anything not crashing will crash in the next two minutes) led me to look around at its possible competitors. I looked at Croquet, a heavy-duty open source 3D platform being written by Alan Kay, among others.

Free games for my Clie TH55: that is what I decided I wanted. Today I spent most of the day in a large meeting, at the back of a room where the wireless access was good, and so I was able to find what I needed.

Having succumbed to an ipod, even though I have huge reservations about the installed DRM, I have begun to look for applications that will help me do the kind of things I feel that I ought to be able to do.