» RDFa goes to W3C Proposed Recommendation
05/09/08 23:16 from Creative Commons Blog
Yesterday RDFa reached Proposed Recommendation status at the World Wide Web Consortium, the final stage before becoming a W3C Recommendation. Using RDFa, one can make data in web pages rendered for humans also readable in a meaningful..

» Crowdsourcing Book Excerpt: The Canary in the Coal Mine
05/09/08 21:00 from Wired TechBiz
First identified by journalist Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article , "crowdsourcing" describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of the specialized few. ..

» Ben Rosenbaum's “The Ant King: and Other Stories” Released Under CC License
05/09/08 20:18 from Creative Commons Blog
Ben Rosenbaum , an American science fiction writer and computer programmer, recently released his latest collection of sci-fi shorts, The Ant King: and Other Stories , as both a print collection through Small Beer Press and a free download..

» Bloomsbury Academic Launches Creative Commons Only Publishing Imprint
05/09/08 18:50 from Creative Commons Blog
Bloomsbury Publishing , one of Europe's leading independent publishing houses (you may have heard of their fiction series Harry Potter , among other fantastic fiction and non-fiction titles) announced today that it is launching an CC-exclu..

» McCain Doesn't Really Hate Economists, Does He?
05/09/08 18:46 from Freakonomics
Photo: soggydan Political rhetoric tends to be overwhelmingly simple while economic analysis is often needlessly complex. This is not news. But it does make for a big disconnect between what politicians say and what they hope to do - becaus..

» Three Great Social Contractarians: Hobbes, Locke, and … Blackbeard? A Guest Post
05/09/08 17:27 from Freakonomics
Peter Leeson, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at George Mason University and author of the forthcoming book "The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates," blogged here earlier this week about U.F.O.'s and dominoe..

» A Note on Freakonomics Student and Teacher Guides
05/09/08 16:37 from Freakonomics
School is back in session, and Freakonomics continues to get shoved down the throats of students in everything from economics and finance classes to philosophy and literature classes. For this we are grateful, if baffled. To make things eas..

» Google celebrates its 10th birthday in September - or does it?
05/09/08 15:51 from guardian.co.uk Technology
One day this month will mark Google 's official 10th birthday. The company will probably celebrate with a blog post and a special logo and we'll see a slew of articles about how much they've accomplished in those 10 years. A few publicatio..

» Exactly What's Under the Chrome, Anyway?
05/09/08 15:35 from Wired TechBiz
News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Andreesen Holds Forth on Chrome, Obama, Startups Why Big Tobacco Need to be Bigger McCain's Economic Policy: Does He Have One? Subscribe to Portfolio magazine Bob Rice is the author of Three Moves ..

» Google Reigns as World's Most Powerful 10-Year-Old
05/09/08 15:34 from Wired TechBiz
When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. It sounded..