There’s an old adage about writing, which goes something like, “If you want to be a writer, then write.” Like a lot of things in life, there’s the talking about and then there’s the doing, and the gulf between the two keeps most of us in the talking camp. I finally, after three years and […]
Making of Gallidon, Part 4 – Scoping 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.
Creative Commons Conference Call
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, […]
twitter + Creative Commons = tweetCC
I’m noticing more and more blogs publishing under CC, and now there’s 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.
Learning to write
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) […]