CC-licensed prose: "Always Be Closing"
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PROSE Programming Language
PROSE Programming Language
02/16/2004 08:07 PMFirst Specification Released
They Are Sleuths Who Weigh Prose
They Are Sleuths Who Weigh Prose
09/22/2004 08:56 PMTrying to authenticate documents or uncover forgeries is an
increasingly technical pursuit.
Licensed to clone
Licensed to clone
08/12/2004 02:38 AMUSA Today Aug 12 2004 6:21AM GMT
But Is It Licensed for Mars?
But Is It Licensed for Mars?
01/17/2004 11:07 PMTropos's equipment tested by NASA as an idea for manned Mars missions:
Next thing you know, there will be a Mars Communications Commission
(MCC) insisting that a single newspaper and television station could
provide all the news on the Red Planet. Mesh wireless equipment makes
sense for the terrain and goals of the mission. Will the low pressures
affect signal transmission? And then there's hardening against
radiation and temperature. I guess we have 20 to 40 years to figure it
all out....
World Live (and Licensed) Web
World Live (and Licensed) Web
02/01/2005 08:39 PMKevin Marks mentioned on the cc-metadata list that you can query Technorati for a list of
recently syndicated content, grouped by Creative Commons
license.
You can also drill down and get a list of recently syndicated content under a specific
Creative Commons license.
The results are a bit rough now, but one can easily imagine
combining license searches with keyword and other search filters to
effect an ongoing search for specific licensed content. For example,
tell me whenever a Creative Commons licensed image of horses is
syndicated.
Marks, who works at Technorati, indicates this sort of capability is "an important future
direction." Other blog and search outfits take note.
(Glenn found the beautiful horse
image linked above via the Creative Commons search
engine.)
Democratizing Innovation as CC-licensed
PDF
Democratizing Innovation as CC-licensed
PDF
04/04/2005 03:44 PMMark Frauenfelder:
I've been reading the print version of Eric von Hippel's
Democratizing Innovation, an interesting book about the way
that "lead users" are making significant contributions to the
development of products and services. Von Hippel is a professor of
management of innovation and entrepreneurship, at MIT's Sloan School
of Management.
In this traditional model, a user’s only role is
to have needs, which manufacturers then identify and fill by designing
and producing new products. The manufacturer-centric model does fit
some fields and conditions. However, a growing body of empirical work
shows that users are the first to develop many and perhaps most new
industrial and consumer products. Further, the contribution of users
is growing steadily larger as a result of continuing advances in
computer and communications capabilities.
You can download the entire book at no charge from von Hippel's
site.
Link
UPDATE: Peggy Salz of TheFeature
interviewed Eric von Hippel today.
TheFeature: In your book, you talk mostly about
product development. How do you know the lead-user approach can also
create breakthrough services?
Von Hippel: A field study involving a major
Swedish mobile telecoms company recently tested this and produced some
surprising results. These researchers adopted the "toolkit innovation
method" and supplied a sample of university students tools to develop
their own services. Compared to the services generated by professional
developers the students' services were by far more novel, creative and
cutting-edge.
For example, one girl was frustrated because she was unable to find
an apartment. She cleverly developed a mobile alert service that would
contact her phone every time the university web site posted an ad for
an apartment that fit her requirements. This insight can obviously
become the basis for a suite of mobile alert services.
Link
3G Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum
3G Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum
06/23/2004 02:51 AM3G Jun 23 2004 7:28AM GMT
CC licensed Microsoft site
CC licensed Microsoft site
03/14/2005 06:06 PMThe Microsoft-hosted PatternShare community brings
together information on software patterns organized by wiki inventor and
now Microsoft employee Ward
Cunningham.
PatternShare uses the liberal Creative Commons Attribution
License.
Thanks Ward Cunningham and thanks Microsoft!
Although it predates the availability of Creative Commons licensing
by many years, I would be remiss to not recommend Cunningham's still
active Portland
Pattern Repository Wiki, which I suppose could be characterized as
the wild and woolly counterpart of PatternShare.
More CC-licensed banjo manuals
More CC-licensed banjo manuals
12/29/2004 11:27 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Patrick sez, "'A Book Of Five Strings' is another Creative Commons
banjo book- you guys
posted a link to my first CC project, 'The How and the Tao of Old
Time Banjo' back in September. 'Five Strings' was released a few weeks
ago and it's already selling pretty well. Going CC actually boosted
sales for my first book so I figured I might as well do it again."
Link
(
Thanks, Patrick!)
CC-licensed papercraft iPod stand
CC-licensed papercraft iPod stand
03/29/2005 02:13 AMCory Doctorow:
Piers sez, "Seeing as the new iPods don't come with docks, and no-one
wants to spend $30+ on a bit of plastic or metal to stand their iPods
on, I've drawn up a template for a simple, functional and attractive
iPod stand you can download as a pdf, print out, stick on some card
and assemble. It's also released under a Creative Commons licence so
anyone can distribute it or make improvements to the design and
re-distribute it."
Link
(
Thanks, Piers!)
Are you disaster-recovery plans
licensed?
Are you disaster-recovery plans
licensed?
03/23/2005 10:41 PMZDNet Mar 23 2005 11:59PM GMT
Are your disaster-recovery plans
licensed?
Are your disaster-recovery plans
licensed?
03/29/2005 06:49 AMZDNet Mar 29 2005 10:35AM GMT
O'Reilly Licensing Book, Licensed
O'Reilly Licensing Book, Licensed
02/01/2005 08:39 PMI just noticed that Understanding
Open Source and Free Software Licensing, published last year by O'Reilly, is now available as a no cost
download under a Creative Commons license. The book includes a chapter
(PDF) on Creative Commons licenses.
Thanks O'Reilly and Andrew St.
Laurent, the book's author!
V
ia Slashdot.
Award-winning sf as CC-licensed
audiobooks
Award-winning sf as CC-licensed
audiobooks
09/10/2004 06:38 PM
Cory Doctorow:
Hugo-award-winning author James Patrick Kelly's "Free Reads" site is a
place where he posts Creative-Commons-licensed studio recordings of
him reading his works. He's a fantastic reader, and an even better
writer, and he made enough off his tipjar the last time around to go
into the studio and record three more:
"Faith" first published in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1989.
Time:59:25, File Size 27.86 MB.
"The Best Christmas Ever" first published in SciFiction, May, 2004.
Time:39:38, File Size 19.03 MB.
"Serpent" first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science
Fiction, May 2004. Time:22:53, File Size 10.74 MB.
Link
(
Thanks, Jim!)
CC-licensed book of fictitious forewords
CC-licensed book of fictitious forewords
07/05/2004 02:30 PMDavid sez, "I just wrote my first book and posted it online under a
creative commons license. It is entitled Dr. Lewis B. Turndevelt's
Big Book of Forewords and is a fictitious collection of fictitious
forewords written by this fictitious guy, Dr. Turndevelt."
Link
(
Thanks, David!)
Core Licensed For 3G Multimedia Phones
Core Licensed For 3G Multimedia Phones
12/10/2003 05:47 AM3G Dec 10 2003 4:50AM ET
Creative Commons licensed mural
Creative Commons licensed mural
08/03/2004 11:24 PM
These pictures taken by Brad Neuberg
Mona Caron has created a
beautiful mural on Church street near Market in San Francisco with a
Creative Commons Attribution-N
onCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 License. So cool. More pictures on Brad Neuberg's site and
her site.
via Creative Commons
Weblog
Comment -
TrackBack
30,000 songs licensed on Soundclick in
one month
30,000 songs licensed on Soundclick in
one month
08/11/2004 09:11 PM Soundclick, one of the
Internet's biggest music community sites, prominently integrated our
license engine just one month ago. In that time, over 30,000 tracks
have been licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Genres vary, and
many of the tracks allow derivatives, so break out your music editing
software and mix away.
More details from the press
release.
Healers licensed in South Africa
Healers licensed in South Africa
09/09/2004 11:08 AMA bill to regulate South Africa's 200,000 traditional healers is
adopted by parliament.
3G mobile services to be licensed in
2005
3G mobile services to be licensed in
2005
06/16/2004 01:05 PMRBC Jun 16 2004 4:38PM GMT
Benjamin Rosenbaum's "The Orange" online
and CC-licensed
Benjamin Rosenbaum's "The Orange" online
and CC-licensed
07/18/2004 08:45 AM
Benjamin Rosenbaum, whose knockout story "The Ant King: A California
Fairytale" convinced me that he was desitined to be one of the great
talents in science fiction, has Creative-Commons-licensed his story
"The Orange," which originally appeared in Harper's Magazine (selling
an sf story to Harper's is itself quite a coup!).
An orange ruled the world.
It was an unexpected thing, the temporary abdication of Heavenly
Providence, entrusting the whole matter to a simple orange.
The orange, in a grove in Florida, humbly accepted the honor. The
other oranges, the birds, and the men in their tractors wept with joy;
the tractors' motors rumbled hymns of praise.
Airplane pilots passing over would circle the grove and tell their
passengers, "Below us is the grove where the orange who rules the
world grows on a simple branch." And the passengers would be silent
with awe.
Link
(
Thanks, Ben!)
Industry analysts releasing licensed
whitepapers
Industry analysts releasing licensed
whitepapers
08/19/2004 03:21 PM
Redmonk is an analyst firm that
studies the Technology industry. One aspect of their work is
publishing whitepapers on various technology subjects, which are
usually sold for hundreds of dollars to companies seeking research.
Tech magazine Info
wWorld noticed their most recent publication was released for
free, and on top of that, licensed under Creative Commons. Stephen
O'Grady of Redmonk explains
the reasoning behind the licensing in this post to his technology
weblog. In a
followup post, he sums up the paralells between Creative Commons
licensed technology papers and open sourced code:
"I see no reason to believe that the open source model is
any less applicable to our business model than it is to software. It's
not one-to-one, of course, because of the inherent differences between
source code and analysis, but at the end of the day they are both just
information. Information that can be used and built on. If
you allow it."
It's great to see an analyst firm try out licensing their
whitepapers, and I hope it's the start of a new trend in the
industry.
Shipwrecked U-Boat salvage bl0g with
CC-licensed A/V
Shipwrecked U-Boat salvage bl0g with
CC-licensed A/V
07/23/2004 07:54 AMThor (who has the same birthday as me -- happy b-day, Thor!) sez,
We made International news last week when our team found the shipwreck
of the rare U-215, a U-Boat that was on a secret mission to mine
Boston Harbor when it decided to disobey orders and sink an American
liberty ship in July 1942. That action lead to a watery grave for 48
German sailors, and 10 more who went down on the Alexander Macomb.
During the whole dive I was blogging the event from shore, keeping in
touch by satellite phone. Unfortunately our website, Shipwreck
Central, wasn't ready to go online so I was left to ponder the
question of "if a blogger blogs in the woods..."
It's 5:30 AM here in Halifax and I'm back at home having a Wi-Fi beer
on the porch. A couple of hours ago we opened up the site for a 'soft
launch'. We're pretty happy with it, it's like the IMDB of shipwrecks
with a kick-ass map interface, and best of all we've made our audio
and video available under a Creative Commons license. I can't wait to
hear live from the dive audio mixed in with some downtempo-ambient...
it goes quite well from my experience.
LinkOld Atari games being licensed for slot
machines
Old Atari games being licensed for slot
machines
09/10/2004 02:53 PM
Xeni Jardin:
Vegas, baby. BoingBoing reader
Clive says, "Atari has
signed a deal to produce a series of casino slot machines based on
their early arcade classics -- including Pong, Asteroids, and
Centipede."
Link to Atari press release.
US court rules that music sampling must
be licensed
US court rules that music sampling must
be licensed
09/10/2004 01:17 PM
The US
6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that
ruled that creators mixing music from other sources, or sampling
, must license music they sample , and pay as required.
"If you cannot pirate the whole sound recording, can you
'lift' or 'sample' something less than the whole? Our answer to that
question is in the negative."
Critics and musicians, especially rappers, have argued that sampling
is either
fair use , or uses small enough pieces in a transformative way as
to not cost sales of the original. Others argue that culture,
including legal argument , assumes a great deal of sampling from
various media.
Creative Commons licensed journal online
Creative Commons licensed journal online
05/06/2004 02:30 PM
The Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University has started ap
plying Creative Commons licenses to its journals. Classics@ is
available online at their
site. It's great to see further uptake in the educational world,
as the ideals of academic publishing are pretty close to the goals of
Creative Commons.
Protecting Licensed Intellectual
Property in Bankruptcy
Protecting Licensed Intellectual
Property in Bankruptcy
08/03/2004 05:38 AMMondaq Aug 3 2004 10:03AM GMT
licensed images in squared circle
2005-01-25
licensed images in squared circle
2005-01-25
02/01/2005 08:44 PM
(licensed images
in squared circle 2005-01-25, originally uploaded by jbum)
Pretty cool visualization of the state of copyright licensing over
at flickr
Al-Qaeda may have trained and licensed
pilots in their ranks
Al-Qaeda may have trained and licensed
pilots in their ranks
12/23/2003 06:53 PMtrained pilots working for foreign airlines .. feeling safer .. From
MSNBC .. MSNBC
msnbc.msn.com/id/3775771
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Licensed character breakfast cereal
gallery
Licensed character breakfast cereal
gallery
11/12/2003 01:27 PM
Ralston -- now a division of General Mills -- is the cereal company
best known for Cookie Crisp and Chex, but the company also had a
sideline in short-lived, craptacular cereals based on licensed
characters from GI Joe to Rainbow Brite to Slimer. Some of the most
forgettable are gathered into this annotated gallery.
Link
(
via Fark)
Creative Commons -licensed mobile videos
Creative Commons -licensed mobile videos
06/06/2005 12:11 AMDigitoday reports (in Finnish) that Elisa [a Finnish
operator] has started to distribute
Creative Commons -licensed
material on a mobile TV channel for test users.
Of course, being CC -licensed, Elisa does not have to pay any
license fees to Kopiosto (the Finnish copyright organization) or
anyone else, which probably is the real reason behind this move.
There is already quite a lot of decent quality CC-material out there
that's not getting the publicity it deserves, so this kind of a move
is likely to bolster goodwill on Elisa, and more public recognition to
Creative Commons.
(Though, my guess is that someone is going to inhale a stack of
peas on this one and start screaming that corporations supporting free
content means that artists will starve to death [starvation in general
is a very big problem in Finland] and demand banning of anything
that's freely available, and that corporations should "observe
their responsibilities towards Finnish artists" and support them
instead of some "crap, second-rate free content just because
they're being greedy." The concept of sharing seems to go
above some people's heads... There is nothing wrong in sharing your
work for free, as much as there is nothing wrong in asking for money
from what you do. Both ways have their advantages and disadvantages,
and in the end, the customer should be allowed to decide.)
Update: Elisa spokesperson says "users can freely download
and share the content without fear." That is also a reason why
looking into CC-licensed content is a good idea: if you use only that,
you don't need to implement costly and complicated Digital Rights
Management solutions which usually kill all usability. You can even
play up the fact that "it's okay to share this" to gain
extra publicity. Especially for a pilot, it makes little sense to
spend all that money.
Update2: Nope says in the comment section: "Just in case
somebody was wondering, the project website is at http://www.indica.tv/ where anyone
can also submit their own video clips at http://www.indica.tv/cc/."
Thanks!
Lexicon: CC-licensed RPG based on
compiling fictional encyclopedia
Lexicon: CC-licensed RPG based on
compiling fictional encyclopedia
04/15/2005 09:01 PMCory Doctorow:
Morbus Iff sez, "Ghyll is a Creative Common licensed player-created
world per the rules of "Lexicon: an RPG" (think: a fictional
wikipedia, constrained by integration, consecutive letter definitions,
and cranky scholars that write before 'before scholarly pursuits
became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be)'). It
has reached nearly 30 players, 200 pages of text, an incredibly large
timeline, a hundred characters, and a to-scale ASCII map of the known
world. Darkly humorous? Possible. Odd? Mmhmmm. All CC? Ayup.
"We're starting Round 2 next month (in essence, starting over again at
letter A to further define the world). Notes about the announcement
here, as well as links to the timeline, characters, and ASCII map."
Link
(Thanks, Morbus!)
King Spot: CC-licensed fairy tale well
told
King Spot: CC-licensed fairy tale well
told
04/17/2005 04:04 AMCory Doctorow:
Mike sez, "I've written a 48-chapter all-ages novella while looking
for work, and I have begun posting it reserving rights under the
creative commons license. It's 20,000 words and some change, but
should be about 230 pages when illustrated (comic-panel storytelling
has been sketched for most pages)."
I read the first couple short chapters this morning. It's a snappy,
witty fairy-tale kind of thing, like Geek Love without the squick, and if I didn't have to run, I'd
be reading it still. It concerns itself with the adventures of King
Spot, a runaway circus dog who is the king of the world.
"Hey, look over there," said Roger. "Check out the peg-legged guy with
the funny-looking dog." Roger was talking about a very large man in an
overcoat, whose face was hidden by a scarf. To his left was a tiny,
spotted dog.
"Are you trying to trick me?" said Brian. "I have to be careful,
because, unlike lying for fun, using deception to win a game is not
considered immoral. It's called bluffing."
"Brian, you talk like you're going to read shampoo instructions for a
living when you grow up," said Roger. "You'll find a job where you can
talk like this: 'After you lather the shampoo in your hair, rinse it
out. Then lather and rinse it from your hair again.' You'll do this in
the supermarkets where they sell the shampoo. They'll pay you to go
away."
Link
(
Thanks, Mike!)
Simba Technologies Announces Aleri has
Licensed SimbaProvider SDK
Simba Technologies Announces Aleri has
Licensed SimbaProvider SDK
07/05/2004 02:29 PMBC Technology Jul 5 2004 6:15PM GMT
Creative Commons-licensed phonecam
bl0gging service
Creative Commons-licensed phonecam
bl0gging service
04/14/2004 10:31 AMAlfie Dennen of the phonecam
blogging service Moblog UK says:
We operate the site code on a copyright commons basis, and with users
like Warren Ellis (who want to retain control of their
images/video/audio), we urge people using the site to do the same.
The fact that Textamerica and mblog etc own your content once it hits
their servers got us so angry we felt we had to make an alternative.
We carry no advertising, and are donation supported. In terms of the
code itself, we support multiple image posts, multiple audio and image
posts, in pretty much every format that phones can produce. The site
is very malleable, if you can make a css style sheet, you can make the
site entirely your own look, still hosting it with us. We are a
community that consists partly of a lot of artists who want to make
sure they keep some ownership of their work.
LinkMy Tokyo Death Cult: CC-licensed science
fiction
My Tokyo Death Cult: CC-licensed science
fiction
07/06/2004 03:41 AMMy Tokyo Death Cult is a science fiction novel released under a CC
license by Marc Horne -- haven't read it, but it's got a hell of an
opener:
Japanese policemen's guns are small and sort of puny. Except when
they are shooting at you. Right now, they are shooting at me and my
companion and we are running scared. The Policemen's shots are a
little tentative, like someone picking chewing gum out of their hair.
In fairness to the police, I should mention that we are in Shinjuku
station, the world's busiest. Currently it is occupied by... oh, I
don't know... 2.5 Lichtensteins. I am on average 4 inches taller than
those around me, and a crucial 4 inches to boot, so as I barge
through the crowd, hurting everyone, I must remember to crouch. To
help me remember this, I visualize two things: the cloth that hangs
in front of every drinking establishment in this country and those
photos of JFK's autopsy that my father and I discussed over breakfast
in 1977.
LinkDepartment of Justice wants Microsoft to
better document licensed code
Department of Justice wants Microsoft to
better document licensed code
04/17/2004 11:26 AMThe DoJ wants Microsoft to do a better job documenting protocols
opened up and covered under 2001's settlement. Microsoft is going
along, but will it really have any effect on competition?
Closing
Closing
12/20/2002 02:45 AMSuffering from irritable bowel syndrome? Try closing the store on the
first day of a sale by yourself for the first time 6 days before
Microsoft Windows Media Codecs Licensed
for QUALCOMM's Qtv Solution
Microsoft Windows Media Codecs Licensed
for QUALCOMM's Qtv Solution
09/24/2004 01:55 AMWi-Fi Technology Forum Sep 24 2004 6:17AM GMT
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