Category Archive Writing

Creating an overview of Danish projects that use Creative Commons licenses May 9, 2014

. . For the sake of convenience I've gone through the toil of making what I believe (and hope) is a complete overview of all Danish projects that use Creative Commons licenses - at least the ones I know of as Public Lead for CC Denmark. Check it out here - and a short introduction to the […] Read More…

By Christian Villum | Also posted in Creative Commons, Open culture | Tagged | Comments (0)

“Open-washing” – making your data available is not enough; you have to open it March 15, 2014

. I've written an article on the Danish Open Knowledge blog, titled "Open washing", highlighting the difference between open data and data that are simply made available (there is a huge difference). It seems to resonate with a lot of people and has since been translated into French, Japanese, Italian - as well as cross-posted on […] Read More…

By Christian Villum | Also posted in Open data, Open Knowledge Denmark | Tagged | Comments (0)

New book: ‘Creative Commons For Alle’ – with chapter by me // #creativecommons #openculture December 6, 2011

My friend and collaborator in Creative Commons Denmark, Peter Leth, has recently published a great new book, 'Creative Commons For Alle' (English: Creative Commons For All) which aims at introducing the immense strength of using Creative Commons licenses to the broad audience in general and to grade school teachers in particular. As Public Project Lead […] Read More…

By Christian Villum | Also posted in Activism, Copyright, Creative Commons, Open culture, Open web, Sharing | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Battles in the media landscape: General perspectives from Transmediale11 + Hyperdub // #tm11 #berlin February 7, 2011

Back in Denmark from Berlin and Transmediale11, I've now finished my blog-series from the conference for CrossMedia/PlayShare - with a closing entry that starts like this: BATTLES IN THE MEDIA LANDSCAPE: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES FROM TRANSMEDIALE11 With Transmediale11 now over, some general perspectives of where the media landscape is moving have clearly manifested themselves. For one, […] Read More…

By Christian Villum | Also posted in Berlin, Cross media, Media, Networking, Open web, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

An evening with Anthony Giddens November 7, 2009

Tonight we had the pleasure of attending a special lecture by world famous sociologist Anthony Giddens, who had been invited to Berlin by Heinrich Böll Stiftung, a non-profit for whom a friend of ours, Sue, works. Earlier this year Giddens published a new book, 'Politics of Climate Change', and this was also the area of […] Read More…

By Christian Villum | Also posted in Berlin | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Freeform101.org Boing Boing’ed April 24, 2009

I am really excited about the fact that my media/politics/activist blog Freeform101.org had the pleasure of being Boing Boing'ed yesterday. Being Boing Boing'ed means that one of the posts I made for the site was picked up by the influential American blog Boing Boing and mentioned in their newsletter - which caused the hits of […] Read More…

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Now writing for gaffa.dk April 22, 2009

This week I've written my first concert review for gaffa.dk, the webportal of the largest Danish music mag, Gaffa. The concert was by Bob Hund at Studenterhuset, Aalborg (Denmark). Read the review here.This week I've written my first concert review for gaffa.dk, the webportal of the largest Danish music mag, Gaffa. The concert was by […] Read More…

By Christian Villum | Also posted in Aalborg, Music | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)