A deceptively small decision about how to handle the monitoring/editing/filtering of content submissions ended up having the largest impact to our approach to the site design, internal operations, and management of submissions.
A deceptively small decision about how to handle the monitoring/editing/filtering of content submissions ended up having the largest impact to our approach to the site design, internal operations, and management of submissions.
More than a bit late on this post, but I had the good fortune to sit in on a conference call Monday that Creative Commons hosted. James Boyle and Joi Ito provided updates on challenges, opportunities, and upcoming activities for CC. It was a great way for them to reach out to the CC community, [...]
I’m noticing more and more blogs publishing under CC, and now there’s a way a CC answer for twitter! tweetCC gives you an easy-to-configure mechanism for automatically publishing your tweets under a CC license of your choosing.
I have, for over three years, harbored an idea for a novel or collection of short stories that would allow me to explore (and re-visit) the roots of my first two degrees and combine that with a life-long fascination I have had with Japan. Having ignored both my B.A. in English (emphasis in creative writing) [...]
I think the most challenging aspect to getting Runes of Gallidon off the ground was the daunting task of creating the legal foundation necessary to allow the creative community to share each other’s ideas and intellectual property without breaking copyright laws. It didn’t take long to figure out that our “open source” approach to content [...]
Having put the basic framework of the world and the rough business model together, Tony and I began discussing exactly what kind of content we would want in that world. Based on Tony’s background as a writer and my brief, distant training as a writer (a B.A. in creative writing twenty years old and collecting [...]
Thanks to the crew at Gnome Stew for giving Runes of Gallidon a nod recently! Expanding Gallidon through role-playing game modules as a way of pushing the world experience off the site and onto the gaming tabletop has always been a goal, and I’m grateful for the post from a recognized site devoted to helping [...]
Many thanks to Nathan Burke and Jason Brandenburg over at blogstring for the great and accurate write-up of Runes of Gallidon! Nathan was kind enough to commit the resources to writing a post, and Jason completely understood the business model, value offering, and the kind of creative collaborative space we are striving for with Gallidon. [...]