Twenty-two years ago — long before my current students were born! — Lawrence Lessig wrote the book Free Culture under an Creative Commons Non-Commerical/By Attribution Licence. If I recall correctly, I picked up the PDF of the book & read it directly (those were the days), and wrote a blog post suggesting we each read a chapter & make an audiobook out of it.
Within a few days, this was the result (credit to the readers, and especially to Scott Matthews and Noa Resare):
And ultimately to the wonderful Hugh McGuire’s founding of LibriVox…
The Web was a very different, marvellous medium back then. It could be much more marvellous again, if enough of us pitch in (the way we pitched in twenty-two years ago). But whether we do or don’t, remember that there are great possibilities out there, and friends to help us. Let’s start something!
(Brought here from BlueSky, where I’m [astonishingly] @akma.bsky.social…)