It all starts with a tweet. From a friend. This is a clue as to where I am going. Colorado vineyard country threatened by oil and gas drilling plans wilderness https://t.co/T73QGaPbj7 via @sharethis @cogdog used your pix — Oogie McGuire (@OogieM) October 29, 2016 Oogie and her husband run Desert Weyr a ranch in Colorado […]
Attribution is a FBW (Frequently Blogged Word) around here. I’ve had some back if the brain pondering about how to extend my Flickr CC Attribution Helper to work with images from other CC licensed image collections that have a JavaScript API available (I am thinking of Pixabay, DeviantArt, and MediaWiki Commons as a start). I […]
Can you really say thank you or express gratitude too much? I don’t think so, but then when you are on the receiving end, why does it feel so startling groovy? Prepare yourself for blog post number 343 on Attributing is a Good Thing. Yesterday, among the jetsam and flotsam of email, was a gem […]
This is a true story of a photo. Maybe not amazing, but it gave me pause, even a stop, to smile. My own tiny little bit of internet self serendipity. Yesterday I sat down at one of these WordPress screens to compose a post for the Creative Commons Certification site I’m working on. Like my […]
For a while I was saving screen shots of some of the convoluted license statements I come across in Wikimedia Commons. There were ones where images were public domain in one country, but of course here in the US Congress every few years extends copyright like another 50 years. One of the most “crappy” set […]
Who would have thought a cute photo of a dog and cat hanging out together, used for a DS106 Daily Create, would send me on a journey of non-discovery? This post is part pondering the state of lack of photo attribution, and some speculation that it’s less to do with following rules of giving credit, […]
I don’t care if it’s just me, but the things that make the web so wonderful in a Keep Austin weird sense are the niche interest sites feverishly maintained by individuals. Coming across a site like Roadtrip-62′ reinforces that, for now, this internet feels as neat to infinite space we can ever freely inhabit. Like […]
Yikes, there he goes again blogging about attribution. Yeah. It is a frequent topic here. Sometime a little around a year ago (my searching through my backlog of posts pins it to early December 2014), I started added a photo credit to the bottom of my blog posts. I had noticed that with the featured […]
Based on his extensive travel ,y colleague and good friend Bryan Alexander what he calls an “iron law”: Frequent travelers know what hotel internet connectivity can often be frustrating. But I hit upon a principle, many years ago, that lets us understand the connection between hotel and WiFi. I called it Alexander’s Iron Law of […]
Recently I was looking for poop. Well, a photo of it. For a blog post. Using Google Image search restricted to media licensed to share, I found a worthy image on Wikimedia Commons. I was about to use it, and then I read the details of the license: This file (photograph, motion picture, graphic or […]
