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) […]
Making of Gallidon, Part 3 – Licensing
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 […]
Making of Gallidon, Part 2 – Multimedia
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 […]