Flying Cars and Creative Commons
I came across this fun post on CNET News because my photos on Flickr are licensed Creative Commons Attribution and the page came up in a Google Search on my name.
I love to read anything on aviation, and am in agreement with Chris that most of human-kind isn’t capable of flying. That’s why we have flight schools and a vast amount of training, and why there are ~400,000 pilots out of the entire United States. In order to have flying cars, we can’t have human control.
When I think flying car, I think robotically controlled aerial taxi cab.
Anyway, that’s not the point of this post. The point is Create Commons and offering to share one’s work. I use plain Attribution because I want people to use my content. I don’t care how. Trackbacks and notification of use isn’t ubiquitous or standardized, so planting one’s name makes it easy to see where things are used.
And again, I don’t care where or how my stuff is used, I just want to be able to find the fun stuff that builds upon it. I came across Chris’s post through a Google Alert on my name. There wasn’t a trackback. If there hadn’t been attribution, I wouldn’t have known and wouldn’t have read his post.
Maybe we’ll get to a trackback standard for content usage. It’ll probably get here around the time we have those flying cars.
You actually have the time to search for your own name on Google?
I've got a bunch of various Google Alerts set up. One of them is my name.
Is it safe to use? It looks heavy and don't think it can fly.
I guess the biggest issue is what happens if there a mechanical fault while you're up there? Parachute anyone?
I guess the biggest issue is what happens if there a mechanical fault while you're up there? Parachute anyone?