A few Friday afternoon thoughts about pheromones, information foraging, and the success of online communities brought on by reading a doctoral student’s proposal draft…
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Monthly Archive for May, 2003
Today we finalized the draft language for the Creative Commons Education license. Props to Kevin Rothman of “Cooley Godward LLP”:http://www.cooley.com/ for a great review of the legal literature and expressing some great ideas in legalese. The language should be available for comment Monday; please join the “cc-education mailing list”:http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-education to participate in the draft review and make sure that the license will meet your needs.
So here I am blogging during a session at PIDT in the absolutely fabulous YMCA of the Rockies in Estes Park, CO. I love attending these meetings because I keep either meeting or reconnecting with fabulous people. Today’s examples: “Trey Martindale”:http://www.soe.ecu.edu/ltdi/martindale/default.htm, who has a wicked three point shot, and perhaps my favorite colleague on the planet, “Janette Hill”:http://it.coe.uga.edu/~janette/. While leading a session titled something like “Where is the learning?” earlier this morning, it became clear that many of the people here don’t know what blogs or wikis are. So now tomorrow I’m doing an ad hoc intro to the topics, and will be updating my getting started guide accordingly…
There’s a great introduction to the DMCA and TEACH Act over at the “LIBRES Journal”:http://libres.curtin.edu.au/libres13n1/index.htm Thanks to Henk at “In Between”:http://eepi.ubib.eur.nl/iliit/archives/2003_05.html#000143 for the link. Utah State University has just formed a committee to put policy in place ensuring our compliance with the TEACH Act. A committee I’m actually excited to be on!
