Tezamen met enkele anderen maak ik sinds gisteren officieel deel uit van het bestuur van de vereniging Vrijbit. Vandaag vond ik onderstaande filmpje via via op de Vrij Nederland site. Lees ook het bijbehorende interessante artikel. Binnenkort meer over Vrijbit.

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Next week I’ll be in San Francisco attending the first Creative Commons tech summit.The program looks interesting.
It seems I got some catching up to do with the way CC deals with meta data as I did not know about CCrel. Oh, and I’m really curious to see San Francisco and not looking forward to flying almost eleven hours.

Interesting movie about the web according to freespeech.org

Internet has no borders? Think again.

This clip on Pitchforkmedia ’s Forkcast of the band Vampire Weekend song ‘Mansard Roof’ will not play outside of the USA. Even though there are more and more developments around openess and the benefits of it, clearly somebody did not get the memo. Either the people behind MTV Overdrive or the band’s management thought they could control who may or may not see this clip. How naïve!

For those interested, check out ‘Mansard Roof’ in crappy YouTube definition here below

http://www.musickum.com/omi/index.php5?username=BjornW

Some nice animation work by Ckoe a good friend of mine featuring music by the Bunny Bonanza’s

Just some quick notes that might help somebody out..

If you want to use the pyvnc2swf script on OS X (specifically 10.4.6) you will need to install pygame as described in the install notes of pyvnc2swf . There are some other steps you need to take care of before installing pygame:

1. Check your Python version. Open a Terminal (Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type: python -V You should now see something like Python 2.3.5 (the numbers can be different)
2. Choose the right pygame package from http://pythonmac.org/packages/ corresponding to the version of Python you have. In my case it’s http://pythonmac.org/packages/pygame-1.7.0-py2.3-macosx10.3.zip. (there was no 10.4 version so I gambled that the 10.3 would work as well. This might have caused my issues…). Now download it.
3. Install the pygame package.

However pyvnc2swf still didn’t work. Until I poked around on the mailinglist of the pyvnc2swf users list and found this tip. It describes my problem and has a solution that worked for me. The problem seems to be pyvnc2swf not being able to find pygame.

It looks for pygame here:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Extras/lib/python

but it is actually installed here:
/Library/Python/2.3/pygame

The solution as proposed on the mailinglist is to create a symlink that points to the right place. You can do this by going to:

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/Extras/lib/python

directory and typing:

sudo ln -s /Library/Python/2.3/pygame pygame

It will prompt for your password and after this it creates a symlink and you should be ready to go. From this point on you can follow the instructions of the pyvnc2swf guide.

ps: Btw I have the Apple Developer Tools installed not quite sure if its necessary for this tool, just so you know. Also make sure the VNC server (I use OSXVnc) you use works. You can do this by connecting a vnc client (I use Chicken of the VNC) to it and you should be able to see the connected desktop.

The CCC videos are available! Woohoo! Even more reasons to ignore the crappy tv stations…

I enjoy Islands of Consciousness by Mario Klingeman and Oleg Marakov / Corpuscul

I was asked by Marco Raaphorst of DiSFish fame to join the ccmixter blog. Needless to say that I said yes! I think its really cool to have all these people that care so much about music together and I’m honoured to be part of this group.