The Brisbane Artists Academé has introduced an annual scholarship for on successful Brisbane artist.The inaugural scholarship is valued at $2500 worth of selected term classes throughout the upcoming year. They successful application will worth with the Academé staff to develop a program to suit their ...Read More
Artworkers Alliance is running a competition for Australian emerging arts writers called Eat Your Words. Eight successful applicants will be invited to attend an intensive writing workshop here in Brisbane where they will collaborate with academics, visual artists and arts writers "...to help ...Read More
Over on the ccAustralia website I just posted about the Australia Council for the Arts recently released The Writer’s Guide to Making a Digital Living: Choose Your own Adventure by Therese Fingleton, Christy Dena, Jennifer Wilson over at at The Australia Council. It is very heartening ...Read More
Google has integrated the Google Docs PDF Viewer Gmail (I haven't quite gotten used to calling it Google Mail yet) meaning you can finally view PDFs without having to launch Adobe Reader (either the desktop application or within the browser) or use the HTML ...Read More
Just a quick note to announce that the Import/Export feature released as part of Blogger in Draft back in June has now been integrated into all Blogger blogs. Now it doesn't matter if you're in Draft or Blogger classic, you can ...Read More
This blog is of course about Creative Commons but occasionally I am prone to wander. At least talking about the public domain, like I am going to do right now, is related. In particular, I want to talk again about the Flickr: The ...Read More
If you're like me, and wasn't satisfied with the sync provided by Google CalDAV, then here's a way to get rid of it since Google doesn't seem to have any information on how to do it. It is actually easier ...Read More
Ok so no one told me that Google had introduced CalDAV syncing (the download package is cutely named Calaboration ) so you can sync Google Calendar and Apple's iCal together (announced here and here). For ages you've been able to feed your Google calendars into iCal (not sure how? Find out here), but it meant you always ...Read More
Brisbane's local community radio station 4ZzZ fm are now welcoming your list of 10 to be added to the hottest 100 tracks from the yeah that was 2008. Tune in on New Year's Day to 4ZzZ's Hot 100 to see ...Read More
I just read on the Creative Commons blog that a photo published on Flickr by amateur photographer and web developer Jeremy Keith was used in Marvel-blockbuster Iron Man (2008, Paramount Pictures). On his site, Adactio, Jeremy humourously outlines how his "blurry ...Read More
How exciting! American President-elect Barack Obama has taken a bold but very welcomed move, deciding to release the content of the Office of the President-Elect website, Change.gov, under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (interestingly a BY 3.0 Unported, not a BY ...Read More