Deafening Silence

There have been a grand total of two posts to the cc.edu mailing lists (the discussion about an educational use-only option for the Creative Commons licensing infrastructure) not authored by one of the CC people. You can access the archives here “http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-education/”:http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-education/. Stephen has been vocal in his thinking that cc.edu is a bad idea, … Read more

Trackback SPAM?

As part of PITCH we are working on developing a clean growth path for comments attached to a published article to grow into a published article of their own. As we have envisioned many uses of trackback for this purpose, it occured to me: why isn’t there trackback SPAM? Couldn’t a malicious person send a … Read more

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The goal isn’t to have well-trained employees

From Stephanie Allen and co’s new blog, “COP^2”:http://www.reusability.org/blogs/steph/ — “At the end of the day, employers do not want well-trained employees; they want employees who do their jobs well.” Looks like some fun research to follow over the summer.