Blink: show some attribution people!
If I've said it once, then I've said it a thousand times (in my head)...
"Forget about copyright. Think of it in terms of manners. Do not copy word for word without credit. Show respect for the small things of others."
Actually, Martin Schwimmer said that, in this excellent post on Attribution and the small courtesies in everyday life.
sidenote: I wish I had that Blink thing that the Between Lawyers do.
update: Dennis Crouch of Patently-O: Patent Law Blog says Do not copy this article!
"Forget about copyright. Think of it in terms of manners. Do not copy word for word without credit. Show respect for the small things of others."
Actually, Martin Schwimmer said that, in this excellent post on Attribution and the small courtesies in everyday life.
sidenote: I wish I had that Blink thing that the Between Lawyers do.
update: Dennis Crouch of Patently-O: Patent Law Blog says Do not copy this article!
I have received nice notes from half a dozen law school professors and even a few high-school teachers who asked to copy portions of the blog for their courses ... The best part is that in more than one instance, this initial contact was the beginning of a growing friendship — just another example of how copyright is a public good.Of course he means without asking or without attribution.
2 Comments:
That Blink Thing looks like a variation on a technique that Phil Ringnalda uses on his Movable Type blog for simple little posts that just link to items elsewhere. Entries that Corante bloggers put in the "Blink" category get displayed differently from all other entries. Phil's site does the same thing with items in the "shorts" category, but renders the result in different HTML and CSS. Phil has told me he's hoping to write up the technique sometime in the next few days.
The method Phil uses requires Movable Type specific template tags. Those tags let the template writer direct Movable Type to render posts differently depending on their categories. Corante's method probably relies on the same tags. I'm not sure if it's possible to implement a similar sort of system on Blogger, because I know nothing about Blogger's template system.
As soon as Phil writes up his description of how to do it on MT, I plan to implement it. I need something that will encourage me to make little entries that don't turn into dissertations!
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