I love finding connections between the things I do, read, and/or participate in. I guess that's why I was excited to see the connections between the book I'm reading now and both of my upcoming classes. I'm currently reading Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (which I love). One of the first chapters was on things like Wikipedia and Open Source (entitled "The Peer Pioneers"), now I'm reading all about the benefits and perils of digital copyright and production in the "Prosumers" chapter. One of my classes we'll be talking a lot about Linux and I've already determined that my final paper will probably have something to do with open source (it really fascinates me!). I was especially fascinated by the IBM/Linux collaboration story and how well that worked. My other class is dealing with digital issues. I was happy to see both of these things merged in this book!
I'm pretty excited about going back to school now, I'm positve that both of my classes are going to great learning experiences for me. I'm also anxious to get through this book. I have a million other books stacked up and the reading has been slow over the holidays.
I am currently reading this book as well and find it fascinating.
You mentioned digital copyrights and thought I would share with you a new site called Numly.com. Numly is a Web 2.0 next generation copyright and digital rights assignment service for both All Rights Reserved and Creative Commons licenses.
Numly Numbers track the submission timestamp of a work as well as the licensee or copyright holder (submitter). Copyrights can include All Rights Reserved or Creative Commons licenses.
Each additional copy of work sold or licensed can also be assigned a Numly Number allowing the original author or artist to track their works and license assignments per work.
Hi Chris, thanks for the link! I think I've been to Numly before but it's been a long time so I'll need to go check it out again.
I think I'll also pass this link along to my Digital Issues class, maybe it's something we can talk about during my class too.
Thanks again!