iPhone blog- copyright
iPhone blog post number one, we’ll see how this ends up. I’ll remind everyone that formatting we be poor, there will be no links (apple give me copy and paste abilities already!) and spelling errors may abound. With those rules, let’s get to it.
First, themattscott is now viewable on the iphone in a much easier to deal with format. I’ve forgotten the name of the app that does it, but I’ll find it and update the post later (and break the second rule, no links) from home. If all wordpress blogs could kindly install the addon my day would be that much brighter.
Now the point of the post, blog copy rights. There is a good deal of information sharing that goes on in the blogosphere, and most blogs denote copyrights at the bottom of there pages. That copyright in no way stops another blogger, or an author of a book for that matter, from using said material in their own work, without propperly crediting the source. The current format of “works citing” on a blog is either a hat tip (denoted as HT) or by inserting a link to track back to the original post. These would never pass as acceptable citations in the academic publishing yet academics (scholars, whatever term you wish to insert) seemingly have no qualms about citing materials in this way on there informal blog settings.
My question then: “Is web 2.0 in general, and blogging specifically, beggining to alter our view of copyright and works citation?”
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