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There’s something about having a deadline that makes a girl want to procrastinate. Some of the things that have taken my eye during recent wanderings. This CO2 statistics calculator says that it is able to calculate the carbon footprint of your website. So the more users = the higher the carbon footprint. One example of where being [...] 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 [...] When it comes to music files, Bill Gates simply had this to say in summary; “People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then.” Except, of course, if you live in New Zealand. The copyright/wrong bill is marching on towards becoming law. The trouble is that at the moment the mud is no less opaque than it was. Will we be able to legaly copy that brand new CD so that we can listen on that lovely new teacher laptop so thoughtfully subsidised by the Ministry of Education? Possibly. [...] Eight days since I last posted. I wish that I could say that I have been doing exciting, worthy things but sadly, no. it’s milestone and variation time here in ICT-PD-land and it’s all been about collating and compiling and putting it all together. This morning’s Sunday Star Times had a spend-up-before -Christmas glossy about some [...] 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 [...] This has implications for New Zealand schools: Copyright makes web a turn off It seems that the Australian copyright people want to collect a fee from schools to cover printing from web pages. As Cory Doctorow puts it (he is more eloquesnt than I am): Now they say that they deserve to collect for the use of [...] |
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