Comment So funny I kant stand it (Score 1) 2
Nietzsche's got my vote, but really, all these politicians are liars...
Submission + - Both Wikipedia and Citizendium under CC-by-sa? (citizendium.org)
Raindance writes: "Citizendium, after more than a year of license ambiguity, has announced its content will be freely available under CC-by-sa. This comes a few weeks after Wikipedia announced the fairly likely possibility of relicensing all homegrown GFDL content under CC-by-sa (as made possible by the new Creative Commons compatibility framework). Good things are happening in the realm of free content."
Is Kant Right for America?
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samzenpus writes "Can we support someone who thinks that the human mind is an active originator of experience rather than just a passive recipient of perception?"
Submission + - Citizendium after one year
Larry Sanger writes: "Citizendium, "the Citizens' Compendium" — a free, non-profit, ad-free, wiki encyclopedia with real names and a role for experts — has just announced that it's celebrating the one year anniversary of its wiki, an occasion for which I wrote a project report. Make up your own mind about whether "we've made a very strong start and an amazing future likely lies ahead of us." We have been the subject of a lot of misunderstanding, but we've still proven a lot, such as that a public-expert hybrid wiki is consistent with accelerating growth and leads to high quality, or that eliminating anonymity helps remove vandalism. We've got lots of initiatives and plans, and signs are good that we are starting into a serious growth spurt. Might the Web 2.0 umbrella be expanded to include real name requirements and roles for experts? It's looking that way."
News On Laptops For Education 121
AdamWill notes a Mandriva press release with the news that the government of Nigeria has selected Intel-powered classmate PCs running Mandriva Linux for educational use in a nationwide pilot. About 17,000 machines will be involved at first. We can only wonder at the maneuvering and negotiations that went on with the OLPC project. The latter had its first announced order for 100,000 XO machines, from Uruguay, with a potential for 400,000 over time. The bigger news out of OLPC is that Microsoft is porting XP to the platform, and chairman Nicholas Negroponte says that's fine with him: "It would be hard for OLPC to say it was 'open' and then be closed to Microsoft. Open means open."
Submission + - Mailing list on online knowledge communities (citizendium.org)
Larry Sanger writes: "SharedKnowing will be an old-fashioned, well-reasoned, polite discussion list, devoted to the nature of online knowledge production communities. It will be Internet theory (not so much discussion of news, like Slashdot)...for everybody. Sample topics: What exactly is an Internet community, anyway? What is the proper role, if any, of experts in collaborative knowledge communities? How, in general, should disputes be managed in online communities? To what extent do traditional theories or models of government, such as democracy, republicanism, aristocracy, etc., apply to online communities?"
Journal Journal: Why Collaborative Free Works Should Be Protected by the Law
The part relevant to the John Seigenthaler case is in Part III, "Objections and Replies." Written spring 2004, originally published June 2005 in Adam D. Moore, ed., Information Ethics: Privacy, Property, and Power, University of Washington Press, pp. 191-206.
