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Free Culture and Attention as Currency

Waxing UnLyrical

Most web assets from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Google, Tumblr, Foursquare and a gazillion others appear to be free, opening floodgates of content, ranging from the genius of Wikipedia/ Ushahidi to the apparently innocuous LOLcats. ” With “openness” (coders, rejoice!) No, not really.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Books Take Time to Write Last week, a Twitter user asked a really blunt but surprising question about how to download my book (legally) for free. Consequently, I got chewed out both on Twitter and following that on her own blog, telling me that I should have responded nicely and recommended the library. That’s the big question.

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How to make a GIF (Photoshop, iPhone, Android & more)

Sprout Social

GIMP , an open-source image editor, is one such alternative. There are exceptions such as creative commons , of course, but it might not be worth trying to rely on the somewhat nebulous “fair use”. Share directly to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Reddit. This is great for making GIFs for your social media content.

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