[cc-community] Identi.ca - my new Creative-Commons-enabled microblogging service

Rob Myers rob at robmyers.org
Mon Jul 7 14:57:31 EDT 2008


Matthew J. Agnello wrote:
> For me, BY is fine; I really just want more data portability
> out of identi.ca <http://identi.ca>, since I currently use Twitter. So, 
> keep up the great
> work, Evan! 

I am a very strong proponent of copyleft but I think identica's use of 
BY is a perfect fit for:

a) Data portability in a federated network of microblogging sites.

b) Quoting and replying to other people's comments.

So I'd go so far as recommending that standard copyright be dropped 
rather than more licences be added, but I can see the pragmatic reasons 
for keeping it.

identi.ca is absolutely brilliant.

- Rob.

PS -Danny o'brien mentioned identica as an example in his talk about 
freeing the cloud at OpenTech in London last Saturday.


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