Friday roundup

No theme this week. Just good links.

• Cory Doctorow tells us how to license under the Creative Commons.

  Creative Commons aims to do what Congress won’t or can’t do — offer an approach to copyright that helps those of us who don’t want deal that Disney and their pals have insisted on for every snatch of creativity. Creative Commons achieves this through a set of licenses, legal notices that set out permitted uses for creative works.

• The October issue of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication takes on social networking. Read about the history, sociology, and community relationships involved in social networking sites, as well as articles on blog interaction and the Wayback Machine.
• We all know that geek is chic now. So much so that The Chicago Tribune is rating geek girls in pop culture.
• This week Wired poked into the mind behind xkcd, one of our favorite comics. (How favorite? We talked with Randall Munroe a year ago. Go us!)
  

  But if xkcd is currently making headlines, it’s because Munroe’s message to “get out and live!” is provoking a stream of real-time events. For example, Richard Stallman was attacked by ninjas in a comical re-enactment of an xkcd strip as he innocently attempted to give a talk at Yale. Photos circulate of people playing chess on roller coasters.

  Today’s comic is the conclusion to a great series. If you missed the beginning of it, start here.

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