I was reminded by the recent release of the new Affero GPL (very welcome news!) of the ongoing revision of another Free Software Foundation license, the GNU Free Documentation License (and its derivative, the Simpler FDL).
The GFDL is the license used by Wikipedia, resulting in a wealth of free content available under that license. Unfortunately, [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2007’
GFDL revision: Is there hope for CC interoperability?
Short downtime now resolved
The site briefly went down due to my forgetful failure to pay for hosting. Sorry about that. Everything should be back to normal now.
“Open Access for Dummies”: Count me in
An article in Newsweek this week closes with this suggestion:
… Wiley ought to commission “Open Access for Dummies.” Published under a Creative Commons license, naturally.
Oddly enough, I’d been thinking of the same idea. So consider this my offer. If Wiley (or any other publisher) is interested in such a book, give me a call!
Presentation on Net neutrality in Gainesville, Fla. (late)
I failed to post an announcement in advance, but better late than never:
I gave a presentation on Net neutrality on 13 November to the Association of Information Technology Professionals, North Central Florida Chapter in Gainesville, Fla. The slides are available here, largely derived from my earlier presentation at the Florida Media Reform Conference.
Anti-spam tools now in effect: Bad Behavior active
The comment spammers recently have started hitting this site hard. This wastes my time on moderating comments and wastes my bandwidth with my host. I’ve installed Bad Behavior to address the problem; hopefully it will help.
This shouldn’t inconvenience any legitimate readers. If there is a false positive, you should receive a notification page with information [...]
The Radiohead experiment: factors to consider in pricing
Via Truth Happens, I saw this morning that the average price paid to download Radiohead’s “choose your own price” album, In Rainbows, was about £2.90, or about $6 U.S. In fact, only 40% of downloaders paid anything at all.
The Guardian story frames this as basically a loss for the band or the industry — perhaps [...]
My C&RL News column on student open access activism
My column for College & Research Libraries News on student activism for open access has just been released.
Faculty aren’t the only users of the scholarly communication system. Students also depend on it for their education, research, and to disseminate their own ideas. And students, like faculty, have taken action to broaden access to the academic [...]
Scholarly societies and open access publishing
In the latest SPARC Open Access Newsletter, Peter Suber posts the results of research with Caroline Sutton on scholarly society publishers with open access journals. At its core is a list of open access journals affiliated with scholarly societies and various characteristics associated; the post contains some analysis. The list and analysis also considers society [...]
