Our Mike Linksvayer ranks #3.

Posted on March 9, 2007 by Chris F. Masse

Our Mike Linksvayer is the CTO of Creative Commons. I see today that the Creative Commons blog ranks #3 according to Technorati.

So, I went to the Creative Commons blog, and I will tell you something: This site is very usable and very interesting. I’m so impressed. Mike Linksvayer is a magician. It’s pure beauty.

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8 Responses to Our Mike Linksvayer ranks #3.

  1. Mike Linksvayer says:
    March 9, 2007 at 10:06 PM

    Sadly, Technorati is horribly confused on this one.

    http://technorati.com/search/creativecommons.org/weblog
    http://www.dapper.net/dapplications/BlogPlot/creativecommons.org/weblog&timeframe=inf

    Technorati has a hard time distinguishing links to posts, blogs, and any URL on a site. Lots of bloggers link to CC licenses. The CC “blog” was #1 at one point, but maybe Technorati slightly tweaked its rankings, but not nearly enough.

    And CC is not anti-copyright.

  2. Chris. F. Masse says:
    March 10, 2007 at 3:38 AM

    Mike Linksvayer, your Creative Commons blog is pure beauty. Do you use WordPress? Which theme?

    I like your layout a lot.

    As for your new ways of copyrighting content, I scanned it, superficially, but I won’t make a determination until someone smart I know here, on this blog (Midas Oracle), shows me he/she has implemented the CC policy, and explains to me why, and what is the end game of all that, and what are the added benefits.

  3. Jason Ruspini says:
    March 10, 2007 at 10:43 AM

    There’s no disadvantage to allowing users to specify looser copyright rules for themselves than “all rights reserved”.

  4. Chris. F. Masse says:
    March 10, 2007 at 12:37 PM

    Creative Commons plugin for WordPress anyone? :)

  5. Mike Linksvayer says:
    March 11, 2007 at 12:13 AM

    Yes, CC uses WordPress. It’s our own theme (source), with lots of extra stuff to support legacy features of the site.

  6. David Pennock says:
    March 14, 2007 at 6:49 AM

    Chris, Lance Fortnow licenses his blog content under creative commons. (See bottom of left sidebar.) Is he smart enough for you?

  7. Chris. F. Masse says:
    March 14, 2007 at 12:10 PM

    Thanks, mister Pennock.

    Following Jason Ruspini’s point, I have added this line in the AUTHORS page:

    Each blog author is free to specify looser copyright rules for his/her own blog posts in his/her Midas Oracle profile. (See: Creative Commons)
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

  8. Chris. F. Masse says:
    March 15, 2007 at 3:20 PM

    David Pennock, I haven’t spotted that *YOU* license your blog under the Creative Commons scheme.

    And I view you as smarter than Prawf Lance Fortnow. :)

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