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[Doobybrain.com] Photo by Jack Delano (Library of Congress archives) The stunning photo above is one of the many notable mentions in the 2008 Wikimedia Commons Picture of.

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[Boing Boing] Wikimedia's picture of the year - Boing Boing: Voting has closed on the Wikimedia Commons photo of the year competition; the winner and runners-up are stunning.

[Uploads from ComputerHotline, tagged insecte] Image du jour sur Wikimedia Commons : Machaons on Flickr - Photo ...: Image du jour sur Wikimedia Commons : Machaons by ComputerHotline. Picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons.

[mediaoriente] Wikipedia goes Creative Commons BY-SA! « mediaoriente: Wikipedia has historically been licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which was developed for software documentation by the Free Software Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Richard Stallman, with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom and to defend the rights of all free software users. At the time of Wikipedia’s inception in 2001, it was one of the few licenses available for works other than software which focused on granting freedoms to re-use and re-distribute information.

[Wikimedia Commons] Flickr: Discussing Wikimedia Italia award in Wikimedia Commons: Wikimedia Italia, the Italian chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation, issues an Award for people who gave significant contributions to the open projects supported by Wikimedia Foundation and/or Wikimedia Italia. It is meant to let people aware of the importance of free digital sharing as a key factor in the cultural and social development, in particular through the promotion of knowledge and the use of open content projects.

[RSS Feed - Top Digital Journal News] Wikipedia makes the transition to Creative Commons - Digital ...: Since the inception of the Creative Commons license, it has become one of the most widely accepted copyrights with strong adoption by science, education, photography, music, and many other areas. Also, major search engines, photo-sharing sites like Flickr, universities, archives and libraries all support the CC license which grants them more freedom than any other to remix and re-use information.

[DigitalKoans] DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Wikimedia Commons Gets 250000 ...: The photos, the corresponding captions and further meta data will be uploaded to Commons during the coming months by voluntary helpers of Wikimedia, then connected step-by-step with personal identification data and the relevant Wikipedia articles. Apart from that, the metadata supplied by the German Photo Collection can be enriched, commented on and supplied with geographical detail by Wikipedia users.

[expertSEM] SMX Advanced ”” Beyond The Usual Link Building | expertSEM: Get links from public domain content ”” fed and state government, wikimedia commons, Gutenberg; Get private domain content links ”” copyrighted works (fair use, of course), Open APIs;

[24 Blog News] Wikimedia's picture of the year | 24 Blog News: Voting has closed on the Wikimedia Commons photo of the year competition; the winner and runners-up are stunning.

[The Blog Pirate] Wikipedia to Adopt Creative Commons License | The Blog Pirate: Because Wikipedia’s license was chosen by project founder Jimmy Wales when Creative Commons hadn’t yet been created, Wikipedia’s early commitment to free sharing and free re-use has actually worked against legal interoperability. Moreover, because the GNU FDL was designed for software documentation, some of its requirements (such as the requirement to include a copy of the license text with each copy) have encumbered re-use of Wikipedia content.

[Creative Commons » Commons News] The Official Unofficial Creative Commons Facebook Application ...: Notice that application’s link on Facebook update for fans is broken: it ends with /creativ instead of /creativecommons. I think it’s a Facebook platform issues with long URIs.

[Web News Site] Web News Site » Blog Archive » Wikimedia's picture of the year: Voting has closed on the Wikimedia Commons photo of the year competition; the winner and runners-up are stunning.

[Pictures of Cats Blog] African Golden Cat: As there are no photographs but only skins (apt, I think), I present a picture of the skins of this beautiful cat instead:

[Creative Commons » CC News] 250000 Images Donated to the Commons: As a bonus for the donating library, the metadata supplied by the German Photo Collection will be expanded and annotated by Wikipedia users, and the results will be seeded back into the collection’s database.

[The Gaea News] Saying Sotomayor: Pronouncing judge's name gives trouble to some: the argument is that it all depends on the quality of the public space.�New York City folk singer and architectural critic Eugene Ruskin guides us through unique locales which illustrate the fine line between organic and sterile urban spaces. It all depends on a place?s ability to attract and sustain, even if only momentarily, a sense of community.�And while some spaces succeed and others fail, one may wonder whether if it was designer?s intention to drive people away, or not.�Aside from amusingly hep score and the nostalgic longing for Old New York that the film leaves you with, Stoney & Ruskin?s How to Live in a City presents a considerably modern approach to documentary filmmaking, especially when compared to other productions of the time.

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