Tag: creative commons

  • Social Sustainability and the importance of sharing

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    Tom Raftery
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    I wondered for a while what to post on first here after the re-branding of the site and the new focus on Social Sustainability. First I thought about doing a post about blogging seeing as it is one of the most basic building blocks of social media but then I took a step further back…

  • Can Zemanta help you write better blog posts?

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    Zemanta is a really cool Firefox plugin which scans the content of your blog post as you are writing it and suggests related content! I first heard about Zemanta when I met Jure ÄŒuhalev, Zemanta’s Community Manager, at the BlogTalk 2008 conference here in Cork earlier this year. When Jure explained it to me I…

  • Larry Lessig in action at TED

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    Tom Raftery
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    I watched Creative Commons champion Prof. Larry Lessig‘s fantastic presentation to the TED Conference earlier today in awe. How can you take a subject as potentially mind-numbing as copyright law and turn it into a standing-ovation inducing call-to-arms? Watch the master in action to see: http://static.videoegg.com/ted/flash/loader.swf