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Vanuatu and OpenStreetmap

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Meet Hervé Soksok, Vanuatu’s first GPS-toting, creative-commons-licensing community cartographer.

I ran into Hervé at Wan Smolbag’s computer centre a few weeks ago and we swapped email addresses. He’s been attending daily computer classes there, where he spends an [...]

Freebase: crack for information nerds

I have discovered something more crack-like than Wikipedia.

Freebase is a collection of user-contributed and -edited data about everything. Like Wikipedia, you can put just about anything in there. Unlike Wikipedia, you don’t just provide text, but can provide structured data. For instance, for a topic of type “person”, there are fields [...]

Why Fanfic, Open Source, and Creative Commons Belong Together

In my head this post had the newspaper-style title: Fan archive must use GPL, Creative Commons, says Skud. Please feel free to mentally substitute it, if you prefer.

Anyway, I’ve been letting this tumble around in my brain since Astolat’s request for volunteers the other day. First, I’d better explain some [...]