Creative Commons
Summary
Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons licenses free of charge to the public. These licenses allow creators to communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of recipients or other creators. An easy to understand one-page explanation of rights, with associated visual symbols, explains the specifics of each Creative Commons license. This simplicity distinguishes Creative Commons from an all-rights reserved copyright.
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Habemus opinionem: The New York Times experiments with more structured online comments
New pope, new approach to online comments for The New York Times. On Wednesday afternoon, as Catholics celebrated the white smoke, the Times rolled out an experimental approach designed to enhance discussion by adding structured data.
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Beyond Lehrer: Some optimism in Miami around foundations helping fill community info needs
But there’s also something to be learned from the conversations that took place before Jonahgate. Jonathan Groves, an assistant professor at Drury University, is working with the Community Foundation of the Ozarks to develop community-news initiatives in Missouri; here are his takeaways. Disclosure: Knight is a financial supporter of Nieman Lab.
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Social media editors: Do you have a robot deputy?
It was only about a year ago that Liz Heron — then a social media editor at The New York Times, now in a similar role at The Wall Street Journal — predicted her job title wouldn’t exist in five years.
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The newsonomics of Tribune’s metro agony
Soon, the next act of the Tribune newspaper agonies will play out. That’s agonies, as in a Biblical passion play. The Tribune papers have endured a special kind of agony, the Hell of Zell, but really their story is the story of metro newspapers throughout the U. S. and now largely across the developed world.
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Learning the true value of content from Aaron Swartz
I must confess that at first I did not understand what the pioneers of rethinking content’s value—Lawrence Lessig, Joi Ito, Cory Doctorow, Aaron Swartz—had to teach me. When Lessig took to the courts—playing the net’s Quixote to battle Hollywood’s imperialistic expansion of copyright—I wondered whether his side was overreaching by implying that all creation is born of what came before.
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This Week in Review: Andrew Sullivan’s bold paid-content plan, and Al Jazeera’s play for the U.S.
Note: This week’s review covers about two weeks, looking at everything you might have missed going back to Christmas.
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How we read, not what we read, may be contributing to our information overload
Every day, a new app or service arrives with the promise of helping people cut down on the flood of information they receive. It’s the natural result of living in a time when an ever-increasing number of news providers push a constant stream of headlines at us every day.
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Citizen journalism across the 49th parallel: How The Globe and Mail used expats to cover the U.S. election
Politics in the United States is, for a lot of Canadians, a kind of spectator sport. Our border is so porous that most Canadians have some kind of link to the United States, whether we go there for work, school, or love, or just have a family member that has.
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This Week in Review: The BBC’s scandals blow up, and WaPo’s changing of the guard
BBC’s problems continue to compound: The sexual abuse problems at the BBC boiled over this week, as a parallel scandal emerged: In the midst of criticism for killing a story about sexual abuse by one of its former hosts, the BBC ran a report that falsely accused a former British politician as a sexual abuser himself.
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The newsonomics of thin ice, from the BBC and FT to The New York Times and The Washington Post
For most of a decade, news companies have been operating on thinning ice. This week, events on both seaboards of the Atlantic displayed anew just how thin the foundations on which many major news operations operate are. With each crack comes a new sense of mortality and, thankfully, motivation.
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