Preparing for my fall course “Introduction to Open Education” (more about that coming soon in another post), I’ve been thinking hard about licensing and the “pro-freedom” camp. Wikeducator and FreedomDefined.org have several interesting pieces, including WikiEducator’s Free Content Defined and FreedomDefined.org’s The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License. I found myself in complete agreement with statements such as, “Sadly, much of the world’s knowledge is locked behind copyright and consequently access to this knowledge is restricted, especially for the majority of citizens in the developing world… The definition of Free Cultural works is based on the premise that the easier it is to re-use and derive works, the richer our cultures become.” But then I was particularly struck by the section on “Permissible Restrictions” from the Wikieducator tutorial… Continue reading ‘Noncommercial Isn’t the Problem, ShareAlike Is’
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
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Preparing for my fall course “Introduction to Open Education” (more about that coming soon in another post), I’ve been thinking hard about licensing and the “pro-freedom” camp. Wikeducator and FreedomDefined.org have several interesting pieces, including WikiEducator’s Free Content Defined and FreedomDefined.org’s The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License. I found myself in complete agreement with statements such as, “Sadly, much of the world’s knowledge is locked behind copyright and consequently access to this knowledge is restricted, especially for the majority of citizens in the developing world… The definition of Free Cultural works is based on the premise that the easier it is to re-use and derive works, the richer our cultures become.” But then I was particularly struck by the section on “Permissible Restrictions” from the Wikieducator tutorial… Continue reading ‘Noncommercial Isn’t the Problem, ShareAlike Is’
Looking for an aggregator for your new iPhone?
iPhone + Aggregator = iGag! iGag has:
- out of the box support for del.icio.us, Flickr, Digg, Last.FM, and several other popular services
- support for adding generic RSS or Atom feeds and OPML files (online or uploaded)
- OpenID support for authentication (so most of you won’t even need to create a new account)
- support for grouped feeds for easier browsing (click the screenshot above to see detail) and
- those fancy, slidey user interactions you’ve come to expect from the iPhone.
I liked my iPhone before, but this is the killer iPhone app as far as I’m concerned. 
Truth in advertising requires me to disclose that this is a classic “scratch your own itch” piece of software by Justin Ball and myself.
A fun service over at http://www.careerdistinction.com/ measures your “online identity” on a scale of 1 to 10. I did pretty well:
Your online identity score is 10 out of a possible score of 10. Congratulations. You are digitally distinct. This is the nirvana of online identity. Keep up the good work, and remember that your Google results can change as fast as the weather in New England.
It was pretty crazy to see that in a Google search for “David Wiley” 25 of the first 30 results were about me (i.e. there were only five results about some other David Wiley in the first three pages of Google results). What does this mean at the end of the day? I’m not sure… but my wife will have to work extra hard to help me get my already oversized head through the doorway for a while. :p
Bekir passed his dissertation defense on Friday! Congrats, Dr. Gur! Bekir did his dissertation in the “multiple paper” format (which I encourage all my students to use), so he should be ready to submit the three papers for publication much more quickly than usual. I’ll put links here when preprints go up. But for now, CONGRATS!
