January 11, 2004

Womcat Bookmarks. freshmeat.net: Project details for Womcat Bookmarks is a program that maintains Web bookmarks in a set of hierarchical folders. It... [Disruptive Technology] 3:15:59 PM     Micropayments Going Mainstream? Not Yet.. DotEdu writes "Today's NY Times has an interesting article on two new micropayment companies, BitPass and Peppercoin, and the venerable PayPal. More ... [Slashdot] 3:14:57 PM     Teachers Using Mars Mission in Classroom. AP via Newsday Jan 11 2004 2:06PM ET... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 11:52:50 AM     Free Writing and Music - as in Speech. I'd like you all to take a moment to browse the Common Content catalog. It is a categorized index of work which has one of the several Creative Commons licenses. Free licenses aren't just for software anymore. The top-level categories in the index are images, movies, audio, text and web sites. I'm taking the trouble to recommend Common Content just now because I don't think either the catalog or the Creative Commons licenses are as well known as they deserve to be. [kuro5hin.org] 9:24:32 AM     I believe that Larry Lessig and I have found our creative commons, the concept of a citizen blogger. I will write a definition. [Scripting News] 9:21:55 AM     Why tech firms are out of tune (BBC) [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 9:20:29 AM     Democratizing the Media Amen, and pass the "Digeconnix" Solution: Democratizing the Media, and More. The broadcast culture assumes that most of us are "consumers" of mass media. We are merely receptacles for what Hollywood, the music industry and even our local daily newspaper decide we should view, hear or read. The post-broadcast culture is a democratization of media, and it comes at things from the opposite stance. It says that anyone also can be a creator, not just a consumer. There's a world of difference. ... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] 9:17:05 AM     2003: Year of Apache. John Chamberlain writes "Netcraft's numbers for the new year are in. The trend graphs tell a story: 2003 was the Year of Apache. If Time magazine had a ... [Slashdot] 9:14:00 AM

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