Doc Searls just changed his blog license to Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5... in order to clearly deny splogs reblogging rights to his content. Interesting, though I think there may be some unintended fallout. But there are some cool applications for this. What if someone built a tool to make it easy to find such copy right violators (academics use these tools to find plagarism)? With an accompanying service to aggregate complaints and, when they reach a sufficiently remunerative level, send attack lawyers after sploggers.
Update: The collective intelligence of the blogosphere is a mighty thing. In a comment below, Doc points at an open source plagarism detector from UCSB (my alma mater) that already does Internet searches. Hmmm....
2006/08/31
AOL's Open Source Contributions to Dojo
2006/08/28
Sam Ruby presents "Teenage Mutant CyberSurfers"
This afternoon, Sam Ruby was nice enough to reprise a version of his recent talk at AOL Silicon Valley. There's a real independent convergence between Sam's observations and predictions and the fictional world described in Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End. Which as I understand Sam is just now reading :).
Update: The audio is up on our podcast feed already!
Update: The audio is up on our podcast feed already!
2006/08/10
AOL Pictures Beta and woohoo
In conjunction with the new Pictures Beta, there's a cool tool called woohoo which displays a an AIMPages picture gallery in a widget, embeddable anywhere. Fun stuff... for example:
2006/08/02
Feeds Best Practices
The slides from my RSS/Atom Feeds Best Practices talk from lunch today are up now. There was a good discussion afterwards and hopefully we'll put up a podcast. I'm more convinced than ever that the key to a successful presentation is: free food.
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