Monthly Archives: May 2007

Community Blog Bloggin’ & Freedom of Geographic Information

Community blog aggregation, commentary, analysis and tying it into a network or publication’s own coverage would seem to be an excellent way to drive more visitor’s to a Web site. In Seattle, the rags were too slow to get community-driven on their own, so KING5-TV’s Cory Bergman (of Lost Remote fame) took the lead. The [...]
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Bay Area Livin’

Began online / multimedia internship w/ San Jose Mercury News. This will be a fun and productive 10 weeks. Also decided today that I will be living in San Francisco and found a great joint in Cole Valley. Psyched. Found trashed monitor right across the street from the place too — why is GarbageScout/SF out [...]
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Cartoon: ‘A Fair(y) Use Tale’

Found this excellent satire/mashup via WFMU blog Apparently it’s been up on Stanford CIS blog since March. In it, cartoon characters from Buzz Lightyear to the Little Mermaid explain copyright law. Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we [...]
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