Author Archives: Alvin Trusty

Creative Commons Plus

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Creative Commons has announced CCPlus.  +  This is not a new license, but a method of facilitation to acquire more use of a non-commercially licensed CC protected work.  In theory, the gold link would take a potential user of the … Continue reading →

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AddThis

Posted on December 18, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

I was looking for a way to make social bookmarking even easier when I found AddThis.  I downloaded the WordPress Plugin and added it to my blog.  Now you can click the Bookmark icon located in the right sidebar and … Continue reading →

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Trippermap

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

I found this Flash-based Flickr mashup.  It works more like the old flicker map did.  The nice thing is you can specify a tag and it will show all your photos for that tag.  Here is my “remarkableohio” set all … Continue reading →

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Copyright doesn’t protect your feelings

Posted on December 16, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

TechCrunch has a story where copyright law has gotten out of hand.  A guy does a parody video using a Billy Joel tune.  When I first saw the headline I thought the musician has ordered the take down because the … Continue reading →

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Detention for Firefox User

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Alvin Trusty

Last week I ran across this scanned copy of a detention notice for an unnamed student.  According to the letter, the student was caught using “firefox.exe” and was given a detention because “firefox.exe” was not closed when the teacher spotted … Continue reading →

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