IP : Your Rights

• I paid Brian Gardner for the privelege of using his code
• I continue to attribute his contributions to the code and have not in anyway removed his construction reference in the source code anywhere only added my only inclusion as a designer and web developer
• I understand the rights of others as my contributions to the web are made under Creative Commons 3.0 or 2.5 which this site is.
• When somebody builds something then I have no issue with the look / feel being emulated….in time we all want to look different and we natuarally make changes over time
• A web site should never be static…anyone that reads my sites knows that I change the look / feel constantly
• I believe in respecting the rights and IP of those brilliant people who build stuff on the web…likewise add your name to the code and use it but ensure that your not locking people out by removing attribution to them…in fact you’ll be embraessed in years to come when people start pointing back via the Internet Archive.

The following is the email I sent back to my friend and work colleague;

Great stuff [edited]

 

Point your son to http://creativecommons.org

 

I have no issue with anyone using anything except my credit card to pretend they are me so the them is of tiny consequence. I am currently in battles with a client who wont honour the IP rights of the designer who spent weeks coding a wikispace only to have her rights dishonoured by someone who wont attribute her IP.

 

It’s all about attribution which would be good to explore with your son….about respecting the rights of the designers and not ignoring the licensing of the code never mind the pictures.

 

I’m going to blog about this today so ask your son to read my latest post.

 

I  hope it will make some sense and when I can get the comments feature fixed he will be able to reply with you in tow

Read Write Blah.

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“……some who complain in the staffroom about not being able to turn off from school when they get home……..they just want their paycheck and to keep doing things the same way they been doing it for the last 10/20 years.”

It’s all about connectedness and crows feet

Wordpress RSS Test

Here I am testing the TALO Wordpress “planet” thread test.

Moodle Hack

Today’s been a day of squinting through an array of code and f-5 prompts to corall the MECaT Online Moodle environ. into some semblance of readability.

Thanks to NewSchoolLearning I’ve converted their Convertible theme for a grandsum of $39.95 USD and rendered the MECaT Moodle into anything but poo.

Front end theme is an Extreme Updates lover affair. Still not happy with the Mistylook top end but that will change.

Learning lots.

Still going through consults with Atkinson Training for front end look and feel but it’s edging closer to some that resembles a working solution.

New site.

Old site.

Tell me the difference.

Desktops

Wish me luck.

I’ve logged in and seeking help within 40 seconds. Hmmm….

• Where can I hack the code ?
• Any chance of getting my header in here ?
• Creative Commons ?
• Mash ?

I could’nt care less how long my students have been in here……the question is what have they done in the times in between that matter most.

kamahli.com

It’s Christmas time and I’m sitting here at my parents home in Sydney, Australia with my eldest daughter assisting with the design of her new website - kamahli.com

It is an interesting thing for me to see where my creative aesthetics differ with hers and then the things that bring us back together again in the discussion. Your probably wondering why we are doing this over the Christmas break…..choice.

This is a rare moment for us both to sit together and do things without the clamour of trying to connect from states away ( Kamahli lives in Western Australia ) . It’s also a chance to bounce ideas around for where we are headed using the web as a communication tool and product / service crossroads.

I never imagined life would go this way.

It’s a beautiful day here sitting on the balcony, feet up, sun shining, coffee in one hand …mousepad in the other.