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Librivox provides free audio books from the public domain. Files are available in mp3 or ogg format and there’s a podcast feed available. The organization is also looking for volunteers willing to spend some time recording audio books.
Books in their catalogue include…

Baum, L. Frank. The Road to Oz
Burnett, Frances Hodgson. A Little Princess
Christie, [...]

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Disclaimer: This sci-fi parody film says it’s Creative Commons licensed but considering all the copyrighted material in it, this probably wouldn’t stand up in court:-)
Lots of fun though…free to download, in Finnish with English subtitles.
The first Finnish full-length scifi parody is made from astounding special effects, action and loads of dark humour. It is the [...]

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The Internet Archive has launched an archive dedicated to Hurricane Katrina and Rita .

Internet Archive and many individual contributors created a comprehensive list of websites documenting the historic devastation and massive relief effort due to Hurricane Katrina. The sites were crawled between the dates of September 4 - October 17th. This [...]

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New from Project Gutenberg:

How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin (a grammar reference)
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

For kids…(sort of)

An Alphabet Of Old Friends by Walter Crane (suitable for younger readers)
The Absurd ABC by Walter Crane (technically suitable for younger readers but parents may want to look it over first as [...]

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From Terry Anderson and Donna Cameron at Athabasca University come some great orientation-style exercises for students using social software.
These particular examples are designed for use with the University’s Me2U application but could easily be adapted for use with blogs, Flickr, del.icio.us etc. The best part is that they are really simple, can [...]

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It’s been crazy the past few weeks and I just haven’t been able to blog. This week won’t be too much better as I’m in Paris for LesBlogs. I did manage to write abunch of posts on the plane but I still need to fact check and link check which I haven’t been able to [...]

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BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra have announced the winner of their Superstar VJs competition. The contest invited VJs to download over 100 Creative Archive Licenced BBC clips and build a mix from them. Jack Spencer, age 20, from Leeds clinched first prize with a disturbing piece that makes me [...]

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Indieish.com is starting a Creative Commons 365 podcast. Starting January 1st he will provide one Creative Commons song per day. I absolutely love his little bulleted diatribe…

Whoever you may be.
Whatever you may like to listen to
No matter what (or if) you think of intellectual property
No matter what you think of the RIAA
Whether you’ve heard the [...]

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