I helped fully fund Greg Stolze’s After the Cops, a short story about radical police reform and now you get to read it for free!
Greg does an interesting thing where he writes a story, then offers to release it to the world free of charge for a certain price. He gets paid and the world gets more public content – no DRM needed.
Can’t wait to read it, dropping it into my Kobo now.
Joanna Ebenstein of Morbid Anatomy is raising funds to create a new public cabinet of curiosity within a 3-floor, 4,200 square foot building in Brooklyn, New York.
via BoingBoing!.
I wandered into Morbid Anatomy while roaming around the Gowanus and it was a wonderfully weird moment. I love this place.
The Miro open subtitles project just got funded at kickstarter.
The promise is an open source of subtitles for video. Now the subtitles won’t be restricted to the people who made the video. They are anticipating use for the hearing impaired and for translations. Why am I excited?
The project is also designed to make this decentralized, so that it can be implemented by other video players, and so that users can subscribe to multiple sites of subtitles. That’s the interesting bit!
I’m seeing subtitles as commentary, subtitles with contrasting dialogue, snarky notes about continuity issues and product placement, or political connections…Â Imagine the amazing ShiftSpace web experience 1, or Google’s Sidewiki, but for video.
It’s just cream that the project was funded by tiny donations from lots of strangers 2.