Category Archives: Microformat and Mark-up

The Long Trail

By Rob Linton on August 26, 2008

Lucas Gonze just blogged about our endeavours here and brought some very interesting points to light.

Also posted in Copyright, Licensing & Attribution, Media

The Need for an Attribution Trail

By David Gratton on August 25, 2008

When content is being reused from one source to another, etiquette and ethics would insist that the content creator (the person reusing content) provide clear attribution and links to the original content while obeying the content’s license.
When searching for an example of proper attribution, I had to go no further than Miss 604’s blog, aka [...]

Also posted in Ethical Reuse, Events, Licensing & Attribution, RDFa, Technology Innovation

Copyright Questions by the Truck Load

By Rob Linton on August 21, 2008

Janko Roettgers blogged about this German gem on p2p-blog.com:
German avant-garde musician Johannes Kreidler has composed a song that quotes from 70,200 other musical works in merely 33 seconds. Did I mention he’s an avant-garde musician? In any case, he’s trying to be a good citizen and properly report all of the songs he used to [...]

Also posted in General Discussion

Microformats for the Masses

By Rob Linton on August 18, 2008

“If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.”
- Sir Issac Newton
Where we’re at
Throughout history our progress has come by building on the work of those that came before.  It’s been taken for granted that ideas will be copied, tinkered with, and improved for the greater good.  This approach has [...]

Posted in Microformat and Mark-up
PlayTheWeb.org is an ad hoc group of Web professionals who are interested in promoting the idea of "Web Play" through the ethical reuse of content on the Web. We want to report, discuss, and promote Technologies, Techniques, Applications, and Business models that move this idea forward.