New Free Media about Free Software

James Purser has been producing Linux Australia podcasts, including an interview with Silvia Pfeiffer [35MB Ogg Vorbis] about annodex.

Earlier this week I took the opportunity to interview Pia Waugh [29MB Ogg Theora] about Software Freedom Day, which is happening on September 10th and promises to be a lot of fun. Thanks to Andrea Pedersen for producing the video.

New Free Software for Free Media

RhythmBox is very close to having podcasting support: Mike Urbanski has been working on it for a while, and Renato Araujo (who works with Flavio Oliveira at INDT) has recently been working full time on it [PATCH]. It'll be great to have such an easy, integrated way to subscribe to free music and news feeds.

Nathan Yergler at Creative Commons has released version 1.5 of their web service for license selection, for use by websites providing hosting and distribution of free media. It uses a very well-defined REST interface and sample code is provided for Python and Java clients. Please join the cc-devel community to help bring the ideals of free software to free media, and to help build the technology to make it happen.