Posts from — September 2007

Mission to Learn: OER – Open Educational Resources:
OER – Open Educational Resources

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oer introduction.

History of social media:

Devo Plays Satisfaction on Saturday Night Live (1978):
Here’s a great video of Devo performing “Satisfaction” on Saturday Night Live on October 14th, 1978, with host Fred Willard doing the introduction.
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saturday evening devo.

The argument against Creative Commons is apparently that the poster of the picture of the teenage girl was not adequately informed that he could be impinging on the rights of others based on the information provided by creative commons.

Larry and Joi both comment on the suit but neither can comment on its merits given their respective positions. What they both bring up is the question as to whether Creative Commons should address questions of privacy. This comes up in this current case because the poster to Flickr posted allowing commercial usage, much like I do (and I had my first commercial use last week).

I don’t think that CC needs to head down that road. What they do need to say is that their work only applies in the realm of property and copyrightable materials. I think any judge worth their salt will see that immediately. Rights of the subject of photography are not really dealt with under this license and other laws cover those rights.

So my argument is that the CC license only covers some of the rights involved in photography, that it is clear about that, and any other rights or responsibilities of the photographer and his or her subject are not implied under the license. I suspect this suit will be dismissed on that basis, but we’ll see. I expect that the suit against flickr will go a bit farther.

here is a picture of the commercial use of the image, note the ‘virgin’ trademark plays a significant part as almost a double entendre. Thanks to Jonl for this link.

following pa^2

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well i guess that’s pretty true.

She’s Geeky – HomePage
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What is She’s Geeky?
The She’s Geeky (un)conference will provide an agenda-free and friendly environment for women who not only care about building technology that is useful for people, but who also want to encourage more women to get involved.
It is designed to provide women who self-identify as geeky and who are engaged in various technology-focused disciplines with a gathering space in which they can exchange skills and discuss ideas and form community across and within disciplines.
Our goal is to create an open space forum for women in tech to come together to:

Exchange skills and learning from women from diverse fields of technology.
Discuss topics about women and technology.
Connect the diverse range of women in technology, computing, entrepreneurship, funding, hardware, open source, nonprofit and any other technical geeky field.

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I think this is an interesting idea.

CRACKED.com – The 10 Best Animated Movies for (Traumatizing) Kids:
The 10 Best Animated Movies for (Traumatizing) Kids

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magical….

raccoon….

testicles…..

you can say it 3 times fast… magical raccoon testicles, magical raccoon testicles, magical raccoon testicles… yet no raccoons appear. That has to one of the world’s greatest tragedies against possible surrealism.

The Photographer’s Choice by Andrea Lindenberg (Book) in Arts & Photography:
The Photographer’s Choice by Andrea Lindenberg

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If you know someone who loves horses, get them this book…. this photographer is one of the best at capturing the beauty of a horse in trials. I can imagine her work being on any coffee table based on its beauty alone.

Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries (Curious Expeditions):
Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries

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the most beautiful libraries….

Happy Software Freedom Day! :
Today is Software Freedom Day. Take a moment to celebrate your favorite free/open source software, or to thank one of those hard-working, freedom-fighting developers.
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well that came and went.