My First Slashdot Story
Today, I got my first Slashdot story posted.
Creative Commons Launches Today. It's mostly a dupe of my infoAnarchy
story of the same title.
Posted at 22:02
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Swiss Women and the Right to Vote For more, read
Swizerland in Sight: The Right to Vote.
I just learned tonight that Swiss women didn't get the right to vote in
federal elections until 1971! Wow, talk about behind the times!
Posted at 21:59
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Daddy, what does "CC:" mean? He wrote: "One more thing I'm going to have problems explaining to my
daughter: what 'cc:' stands for."
The first time I read that, I though, "Huh? Does he think they won't have
email in the future?"
Then I realized what he meant. "CC:" stands for "carbon copy". I'd almost
forgotten about those damn things! I'm 23, and I barely remember carbon
paper. Danny's daughter is going to have a difficult time with this
concept...
Danny O'Brien
posted an entry I didn't understand until I thought really hard about it.
Posted at 00:07
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Creative Commons Launches Well, their website launched a bit early. :)
You can check out their license
chooser already. Why wait? Beat the rush.
It's pretty slick. After you answer three questions (the default answers
lead you to select "public domain" as your license), it gives you a
license which meets your requirements, then tells you how to use it.
Optionally, you can enter some metadata about your project for the CC
registry.
I've started an
infoAnarchy story to track the Creative Commons launch.
This may well be my first scoop. This isn't on Slashdot or anything yet (I
just submitted a story about it). If so, that's pretty cool.
Creative Commons is having their big
launch party tomorrow, December 16. They're unveiling their human-,
computer-, and lawyer-readable licenses that make it easy to give away
part of your copy rights to the public.
Posted at 00:03
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