If you didn’t read your morning New York Times and see a tall fellow wearing a CC logo shirt, check out this article about Danny Hillis and Robert Cook’s new venture, Metaweb’s Freebase project, which is using the newly released CC Attribution (BY) 3.0 license across-the-board (data and User Generated Content). It is great to…
If you live in Austin, and/or will be at SXSW on March 14 (4:30-6:30 PM at Austin History Center), I’m giving a FREE introduction to Creative Commons in affiliation with EFF-Austin. Here is the quick blurb I wrote up about the presentation: In this presentation, Jon Phillips, Community Developer for Creative Commons, discusses how Creative…
That’s right! Students, get your applications in before the end of the day on March 1 (which means PST for us in San Francisco reviewing applications). As we announced before, we are picking one intern to help our tech team and another to help us with creating media and building up our community. If you…
Please join us for the first CC Salon of 2007 at ShineSF.com on Wednesday, February 21, from 7-9 PM in San Francisco. It will be major! And, yes, please note, we are not doing this event monthly now, but every other month to maximize the impact in SF! The line-up for the evening: John Wilbanks,…
Technorati, the popular search service for identifying popular dynamic user-generated content, today launched a slyly titled service, WTF, or Where’s the Fire, which allows for Technorati users to comment upon searches across their system (and the web). Technorati has decided to use the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 license for all user generated content (UGC) for…