ReMixes: What the Web was for
As FreeCulture (the movement -- nothing to do with me) points out, one weakness to the web that would nag Ted Nelson is the inability easily and always to point directly to a part of the text on a webpage. Trevor Smith has solved that with Free Culture, the book. Here's a version of the book with each paragraph linked to an href. Very cool.
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Wait, I thought I found this link through you! Maybe I didn't... But yeah, we're gearing up here at FreeCulture.org (think MoveOn.org except cooler) to officially launch the site on April 23rd when you come here to speak at Swarthmore. Incidentally, I noticed that a bunch of people are using free-culture.org instead of free-culture.cc to get to your book... this could cause a lot of confusion if we become popular as well. Can you think of a way to resolve this? We have freeculture.net, we could trade you...
We should use this as an example of how silly trademark "confusion" doctrine is. The way the law is developing, it is almost as if if there's anyone out there who might be confused, the use is not permitted. Let's show the world we can do something better. We'll add something to our site pointing people to yours if they're coming to find you, and you can do the same?
A bit more than a year ago, the W3C released the XPointer framework as an official recommendation. It's meant to solve the linking problem generally for any data that can be represented as XML. It works very well and maybe, in a decade, we can say goodbye to anchors.
Brilliant! I hadn't thought of it that way, defying "trademark confusion". This is actually what Jake Wachman suggested, but he didn't put it in that light. We are already linking to http://free-culture.cc from our front page, but once we have the final design, we'll have some nice pretty banner at the top of the page advertising you ;-)
That Xpointer stuff looks cool, and also seems to lend itself to remote quoting Ted Nelson style, but it looks too complicated for non-nerds. I couldn't understand it after a quick skim, although no doubt I would eventually figure it out.
Ah, I did get the link from your post, search the page for the word "expressly"
Yes, the XPointer stuff is generally too complicated for casual use, even for your average HTML guru. But, the thesis of FreeCulture applies to it as well; there are already proposed "remixes" providing usage schemes that are straightforward for humans and for building better tools.
http://www.blueoxen.org/tools/purplewiki/
http://purplewiki.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
Oops, I forgot to mention this site. Currently the site is down for maintenance, but probably be available soon.
http://purpleslurple.cim3.org/
PurpleSlurple's home, http://www.purpleslurple.net, is back up. So too is CIM's PurpleSlurple site, http://purpleslurple.cim3.org/.
I am not sure what did you mean but posting this article...
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