The election results have been announced. Congrats to all that ran.
Sorry to see Domas leave the board, he was among my more favorite candidates. Overall I’m pretty happy with the results though.
Voting time
July - 28 - 2009 - Tuesday ADD COMMENTS
The election voting period has begun. Everyone get out there and cast your vote :)
Creative Commons
April - 14 - 2009 - Tuesday 4 COMMENTS
For some reason I just don’t like the CC licenses. Never have.
I’ve voted against the change, even though I know I’m in the minority here.
Wikisource vs. the library
April - 6 - 2009 - Monday 2 COMMENTS
Was able to spread free content the other day, so I thought I’d share my story :)
Had a friend of mine over, and we got to talking about reading and literature in general. She began talking about this classic lit course she was taking this semester, and how they had just finished reading Dante’s Divine Comedy. Pulling my copy off the shelf (which I can’t even find on Amazon…), I mentioned that she could’ve borrowed it.
She mentions how she couldn’t find a good copy online to read, so she had to check the book out of the library (the horrors!). To be honest, I’m not sure she looked very hard….a quick Google search returns a lot of results. In any case, I pointed her to the Wikisource version of Inferno/Purgatorio/Paradiso. Amazed, she said that this not only would’ve helped with Dante’s work, but several other of the authors she read over the semester as well.
On a similar note, I actually came across one of the library issue cards like these the other day. I wonder if kids born since the late 90’s even know what those things are.