The Wellcome Library started using a creative commons licence and now this shows the top sorts of images people like to download. Pretty cool selection and variety.
The Wellcome Library’s Top 10 Open Images | OpenGLAM
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Just because something has been digitized by a private entity (or anyone), doesn’t mean it should leave the public domain. I think this policy makes a lot of sense to ensure things remain in the public domain.
COMMUNIA policy paper on digitization agreements | International Communia Association
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Hearing and seeing this makes me wonder how I could possibly love Japan any more than I do at this moment.
167 Theremin Players Perform Beethoven
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Making music this way is like a collaboration between a novelist and the people making the algorithm and content associations. I love the creative synaesthetic nature of this collaboration.
TransProse Uses Sentiment Analysis to Turn Novels into Music – Semanticweb.com
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Useful word, I’m adopting sisu! “…one could say that sisu begins where perseverance and grit end. It is the ‘second wind’ of mental toughness, after the individual has reached the end of their observed mental or physical capacity.”
Words Make our Worlds: Introducing Sisu
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