Carping Over Creative Commons 276
scubacuda writes "Arnold Kling, in his article, Content is Crap, writes, 'While there are many Net-heads who share Dan Gillmor's [and Larry Lessig's] enthusiasm for Creative Commons, I do not. It has little or no significance, because it is based on a strikingly naive 60's-retro ideological view of how content intermediaries function.' He compares artists' works to, well, raw sewage that publishers filter into something that can be later consumed by the public. 'What Creative Commons lets you do as an author is label your stuff before you flush it down the toilet.' Kling points to Bayesian Intermediaries (filters based on flexible keyword weights and 'trained' by user preferences) and weblogs as good ways to filter out the drivel that many content creators produce. (Dan Gilmore and Siva Vaidhayanatha respond, to which Kling responds in his blog."
"filter out the drivel" (Score:5, Funny)
a fantastic troll (Score:4, Funny)
Troll complete!
Re:But seriously (Score:5, Funny)
+1 for Irony--Hell I've even got a web log in my sig, make it +2
In other important BLOG news (Score:3, Funny)
Truly this is important to us all, as it affects society at it's very core.
Major label music (Score:2, Funny)
There goes most of what the major record labels produce.
Content is Crap? (Score:2, Funny)
Then again...
Britney
N' Sync
maybe that's right.
Let me make sure I understand this. (Score:5, Funny)
Two words: Circle. Jerk.
it's a good thing we have quality "filters" ... (Score:3, Funny)
timothy
with all of the sewage and toilet analogies... (Score:2, Funny)
Check out my latest sewage! (Score:3, Funny)
You can check out some of my other raw crap here [universe42.com].
-Brett
Nice long article (Score:2, Funny)
lol