Category Archives: General Discussion

A Remix Manifesto

Anyone seen this movie?
RIP: A Remix Manifesto

ABOUT THE FILM
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
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Looks very interesting and I’d love to see [...]

Also posted in Copyright, Media, Technology Innovation

Using RDFa for Attribution and licensing

Well…  despite my complaining about RDFa, we have managed to cobble together something fairly easily.  Almost everything we need for the properties is found in the Dublin Core terms namespace.  We’ve taken a stab at writing a vocabulary document to define the extra attribution properties that can help systems track media over the Web.  Those [...]

Also posted in Copyright

BarCamp Vancouver

Seamus and I presented a little about what we were doing at BarCamp Vancouver and we had a great time.  Many kudos to the people that made BarCamp such a success.

Also posted in BarCampVancouver, Events

RDFa Trials and Travails

So I’ve spent the last few days trying to get my head around RDFa, and I gotta say, it’s not easy.  Excessive complexity is a charge often levelled against RDF and it’s something that RDFa was meant to mitgate.  Has it been successful in that?  I would say partially, yes.

Also posted in Microformat and Mark-up, RDFa

Web Licensing Needs to Be More Granular

<geek alert>
Presently, all the blogs I’ve looked at (I readily concede there are blogs that I have not looked at ) which assign a license to their content do it on a page or global level.

Also posted in Events, Microformat and Mark-up
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