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Our Mike Linksvayer ranks #3.

Written by Chris F. Masse on March 9, 2007 — 8 Comments
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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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Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”
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8 Comments to “Our Mike Linksvayer ranks #3.”

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  1. Mike Linksvayer's Gravatar Mike LinksvayerNo Gravatar
    March 9, 2007 at 10:06 PM | Permalink

    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's Gravatar Chris. F. MasseNo Gravatar
    March 10, 2007 at 3:38 AM | Permalink

    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's Gravatar Jason RuspiniNo Gravatar
    March 10, 2007 at 10:43 AM | Permalink

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

  4. Chris. F. Masse's Gravatar Chris. F. MasseNo Gravatar
    March 10, 2007 at 12:37 PM | Permalink

    Creative Commons plugin for WordPress anyone? :)

  5. Mike Linksvayer's Gravatar Mike LinksvayerNo Gravatar
    March 11, 2007 at 12:13 AM | Permalink

    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's Gravatar David PennockNo Gravatar
    March 14, 2007 at 6:49 AM | Permalink

    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's Gravatar Chris. F. MasseNo Gravatar
    March 14, 2007 at 12:10 PM | Permalink

    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's Gravatar Chris. F. MasseNo Gravatar
    March 15, 2007 at 3:20 PM | Permalink

    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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