Published by jon at November 20, 2007
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Heya, join up and be a friend of Creative Commons on your favorite social network!
Looking for another way to support CC? Be our friend! By connecting with Creative Commons on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Flickr, you can help us broaden our reach and educate the masses about the Creative Commons mission.
So, starting today, we’re issuing a 50,000 friend challenge to our community. We’re asking you to help us expand CC’s overall friend network to 50,000 people across the Web’s various social networking and content sharing sites by December 15 – the date of our fifth birthday party.
Here are some ways you can help our friend network grow. If you aren’t a member of any of these sites, please help us by starting (or expanding) a CC group on any site you do use.
Of course, you can also help Creative Commons by contributing to our annual fundraising campaign. As always, we thank you sincerely for your support!
Published by jon at August 28, 2007
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Totally bummed to hear that super cool hacker buddy Greg Stein got jacked last Friday. While we were at Wikimania he was on crutches the whole time, and some fools jacked him hard. So, be a buddy and donate some money to Greg so he can recover and relax for a bit.
Published by jon at April 18, 2007
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Published by jon at March 12, 2007
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I’m at the Radisson at SXSW. If anyone is here until next SUNDAY MARCH 18 (from now), hit me up…I’m here for the long haul!
Published by jon at February 24, 2007
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Bryce wrote up a great blog post about how to compete with others in working in and around the free desktop. He wrote a memorable paragraph:
No, the key to success with FLOSS is its core attribute - it’s openness to community-scale collaboration. Focus on energizing a strong community and empowering new users to bring their new ideas and energy in. Give them lots of room to experiment, and assist them with paving a good foundation for them to build atop. Give them invitations rather than rules, and infrastructure rather than bureaucracy. Make it easier for people with little technical skill to participate, and treat them as first class citizens when they do.
Published by jon at February 7, 2007
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Yes, its a very big deal to note Steve Jobs note to the community at large about the problems of DRM. The letter is obviously carefully crafted and has excellent points about the issue including some light-promises. As I expected, Prof. Lessig, Mike Linksvayer, Sneakmove, other hackers, and Mr. Boing Boing Doctorow all made comments on Steve Jobs great statement.
Doctorow’s post has notable constructive criticism:
This is a big day — a huge day. If Steve Jobs comes through with his promise to offer DRM-free music from artists who will allow it, we’re at the beginning of the end of the DRM wars. I look forward to the day when the iTunes Music Store catalog shows a little warning icon next to those few holdout tracks sold with DRM, a skull-and-crossbones to tell you that you’re about to buy some poisonous bits.
Especially if Steve follows this up by offering iTunes videos — especially the Pixar movies, which he directly controls as the single largest shareholder in Disney — without DRM! Link
It is now time to stick Apple to this and reminds me of the importance of how influential luminary figures like Jobs can be when they speak up from their closed offices on issues such as this (and I would add when its beneficial to their interests). I don’t mean this is in a naive way either, as this is America baby. Oh know…
Published by jon at January 29, 2007
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Check out Tajee’s vlog/podcast about Creative Commons and what I do there (follow the link for flash video). Here is a quick sample of her blog:
ネオワールドにてお世話になっているCreative Commonsさんを訪問しました！
実は１２月に４周年パーティーがあったので、neo-worldのCDつながりで顔を出したのがきっかけ！パーティー主催をしていたJonさんを訪ねました。おちゃめなJonさんとおしゃれなオフィスに感動しまくりなのでした。。。
そうそう、Creative CommonsさんのHPに実は、neo-worldを掲載していただきました！
ありがとうございます！
I visited Creative Commons in San Francisco. Neo-world, the project to think of next generation by podcasting, is supported by Creative Commons. (Those songs are [licensed] under Creative Commons). I visited Jon, a party organizer of Creative Commons 4th anniversary in Dec.
He was such a fun person, and I was impressed at the cool office!
Creative Commons in Japan has an article about our project, neo-world! Thank you!
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