homerism

Just a quick hat tip to our new president, who understands that Creative Commons is a nice way to be a good citizen on the Web. He's shared his election night candid set on Flickr under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license. That means any of you who want to make copies or derivative works are free to do so, as long as you don't sell the works, give credit where credit is due, and release your own derivatives under the same license. This is a small step, but an important one. The very fact that our president understands that 1) the existing copyright system and…
On the Googles, Common Knowledge gets more than 25,000,000 hits. It's a market research company, a scholarship foundation, a non profit fundraising firm, and in its inverse as Uncommon Knowledge part of a conservative group site, and an interview series at the Hoover Institution. We can take the Wikipedia entry: Common knowledge is what "everybody knows", usually with reference to the community in which the term is used. or we can take an anti-plagiarism guide to heart: The two criteria that are most commonly used in deciding whether or not something is common knowledge relate to quantity…
On the Googles, Common Knowledge gets more than 25,000,000 hits. It's a market research company, a scholarship foundation, a non profit fundraising firm, and in its inverse as Uncommon Knowledge part of a conservative group site, and an interview series at the Hoover Institution. We can take the Wikipedia entry: Common knowledge is what "everybody knows", usually with reference to the community in which the term is used. or we can take an anti-plagiarism guide to heart: The two criteria that are most commonly used in deciding whether or not something is common knowledge relate to quantity…