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Licenced

New Zealand is a little closer towards having its own Creative Commons Licences. Keep an eye on the brand spanking new Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand website.

As yet New Zealand does not have specific Creative Commons Licences so for those of us who choose to licence our work in this way we are using [...]

Web-volution

The entity that we know today as the internet was born out af a desire to connect people together via their computers. Initially almost everything that was completed was text based and users needed to know a lot of commands and the order to type in these commands. As time moved on, graphical browsers were [...]

Digital Content Strategy

The National Library (amongst others) has just released the Draft New Zealand Digital Content Strategy Document.

“The draft New Zealand Digital Content Strategy is a sub-strategy of the Digital Strategy, and is the government’s five-year vision for unlocking New Zealand’s stock of content and providing all New Zealanders with seamless, easy access to the information that [...]

Content Sharing

Andy Carvin has blogged about Jimmy Wales’ (the founder of the Wikipdeia) latest project:

He also announced a new project called Wikiversity. It will serve as an online center for the creation and use of free learning materials and activities. It will create and host a range of free content materials, multilingual learning materials, for all [...]

Conversation

David Warlick has condensed the construct of Web 2.0 into three simple points:

1. Content is Conversation

This, I like. The conversation is strong and it is often (:) ) lucid. The media of the conversations invites even more conversation. This reminds me of something said by our Canadian visitors last week. They talked about kids publishing [...]