Intellectual Property Law

Mashups of various kinds

By Susan Crawford

With OneWebDay about a month from now, I’m hearing from a lot of different people. Here are three sites I didn’t know about until this week:

Spot.us - helping communities support journalists doing reporting. “Spot Us is a nonprofit that allows an individual or group to take control of news by sharing the cost (crowdfunding) to commission freelance journalists.”

TuneRooms - online music collaboration. “Record your music to MP3 (using GarageBand, Pro Tools, or your favorite app). Upload your music to the Tune Rooms mixer and collaborate with friends, or with musicians you?ve never met before.”

Computers For Youth - “As a nation, we are failing to provide low-income children the support they need during the critical middle school years. As a result, test scores are dropping sharply between the fifth and sixth grades. School-based efforts to address this challenge have fallen short. Children spend only 13% of their waking hours in the classroom. CFY offers an innovative solution with proven results. We improve student achievement by enhancing the educational resources available in children’s homes, by improving parent-child interaction around learning, and by helping teachers make powerful links between the classroom and the home.”

And, of course, YearbookYourself, which Eszter Hargittai used to great effect recently.

Great.

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one more note for today: congratulations to Jim Dempsey of CDT.

Full post as published by Susan Crawford Blog on August 19, 2008 (boomark / email).