Totally digital low budget film making. From half life to full screen.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,53929,00.html
Giving quake based 3d animation tools to directors.
Yangfan 1.0. China’s plans to build open source Windows.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992573
Reminds me of a sci-fi book which was based around the Chinese releasing lots of free software and destroying the US economy (I think it was by Bruce Sterling or JC Grimwood).
Self publishing works
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53996,00.html
90% of self published authors picked up by publishing houses.
