If you don’t subscribe to this blog, this roundup should convince you to do so:
The Best of OpenCulture, 2011.
Heaps of online lectures, video, and other stuff, with the occasional post from me if I actually make time to submit one. (Neil Gaiman apparently retweeted the post I wrote on him.)
-Mark Linsenmayer
thanks so much for this link! i have been like a kid in a candy store: so many books that i have always wanted to read, movies that i have wanted to watch, information that i have wanted to know about. overwhelming, even…;)
–through the site, i have begun listening to ‘the origin of species’, a book i have begun so many times, but could not get past the first chapter! the auditory, read by numerous people contributing to the sharing audiobook site librivox, is an eclectic mix of human vocal tones, dialects, and syntax, all blending together, metaphorically illustrating the same theory that darwin put forth: how we evolve as a species together!!