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Software Tutorials & Beyond

CS3 Video Workshop Tutorials offered by Adobe on all of their software
Layers Magazine An Adobe Print Magazine that does offer many tutorials online Tutorial Blog This is a blog dedicated with software and "life" tutorials
iLife Tutorials sponsored by Apple
Lynda.com Excellent video tutorials on a range of digital software. Some are free, but others require a subscription (you can enroll in our class and get 5 courses that I have pre-selected for $35/semester
Instructables User submitted instructions for many things that you can't find anywhere else
How Stuff Works When it says stuff, it means everything!
Make A magazine that has a great user forum, blogs and videos
Craft Make's crafty cousin
Readymade Like Make & Craft, excellent place to find out how to make things that go beyond software

"Free" Online Publishing Tools

Jumpcut Video Editor
Wordpress Blogging Engine (OpenSource)
Blogger Blogging Engine(Owned by Google)
FlickrPhoto Publisher & Blogging (Photos)
You Tube Video Publishing (owned by Viacom)
FreeHostia Free Web Host with no ads

Web Tools & Hosts & Domain Names


StartLogic
web hosting & domain names
site5 web hosting & domain names
FreeHostia Free Web Host with no ads
w3schools
Web Programming Tutorials
Code Validator
Add Your URL to Google
Your Current Screen Resolution
Lorem Lipsum placeholder text generator
Browser Shots will upload screen shots of your website on different browsers. Great to test for design, but not for function

Public Domain & Fair Use Material

Remember to read carefully about any restrictions on use. Although these sites do host images in the public domain, they all may not be.

wikiCommons
University of California List of Image Sites
Web Archive (Video & Sound)
Thompson's Copy Right & The Internet Course Still Image Links
Creative Commons (Images, Video, Sound)
Project Gutenberg (Text)
Flickr (Photos)
MusOpen (audio)
Bush Speeches (audio)
Flashkit (audio soundfx)

Don’t forget to also check out our server for our sound libraries!

Copyright References


Cornell Law School - The actual Laws
The Center for Internet & Society Cyberlaw at Stanford
Lawrence Lessig Co-Founder of Creative Commons, Lawyer, Professor and Author (blog, downloadable books, etc.)
Freedom of Expression Downloadable version of this acclaimed book. Largely addresses copyright and the music industry.
Creative Commons Allows you to create a license (for any media) where you can pick and choose what rights to reserve and what rights to release
Negativland Intellectual property rights resources and articles (look on the left column of the page) from a band that has had its share of lawsuits
Lessig Lecture on Free Culture (video)
Public Knowledge advocacy group
Orphan Works article and information about work whose author is unknown
Electronic Frontier Foundation advocacy group

PSAs & Social Change

The Ad Council
PSA Research
Ad Busters Culture Jamming at its best
Center for the Study of Political Graphics
NBC - The More You Know
Dove Self-Esteem Fund
Tobacco Free Kids result from tobacco settlement

Data Visualization References

Periodic Table of Visualization great way to get ideas!
Google Earth KML Gallery user submitted mapping visualizations using the google earth platform
Flickr Photo-mapping
Many Eyes Visualizations
Superfund 365 a project by Brooke Singer
The Real Costs an environmental project
Air: Area’s Immediate Reading air quality project
Clear Sky Chart
Cell Track a subRosa project
Can You See Us Now another great subRosa project