Thu Mar 24, 2005 11:38 pm   Reply with quote      

I just created a new forum "Articles on Health" forum. The forum is set up for you to find number of articles on variety of health topics. You can add your thought if you'd like to have a say. Also invite other members to discussions if you want to look into certain issues with them.

I have been contemplating about creating a comprehensive list of articles in health. But I have not have come up with a good format for this, so this "Articles on Health" forum is an experiment to me as well. This does not concern most of forum members, but I just wanted to mention some background information.

There is another thing I'd like to mention. Some of you may know that I am a big fan of Lawrence Lessig. Those of you who know Lawrence Lessig probably know Creative Commons and its idea behind it. Creative Commons has set up licensing scheme based on Prof. Lawrence Lessig's idea and design, and a lot of people have been promoting it for some time. Major development took place this week (the week of March 25th); Yahoo has made some enhancement in their search engine and created the interface to search content published under Creative Commons' licensing scheme. This basically allows me to create this "Articles on Health" forum. Personally, I'd like to thank Creative Commons and Prof. Lawrence Lessig and congratulate them on this major accomplishment here. Congratulations!

Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:03 am   Reply with quote      

I have not heard of Crreative commons untill reading about it here. Sounds useful for webmasters looking for articles etc. Thanks for sharing.

Sat Mar 26, 2005 8:09 am   Reply with quote      

It's a great licensing scheme, and it is a kind of licensing scheme that can create balance on the web (sounds like Star Wars). A lot of people are getting so tense; media companies are filing a bunch of lawsuits, and teenagers are making million copies of CDs and DVDs and spreading them out all over the place. Quite frankly, there is no order, and it's a big mess out there. Creative Commons is beneficial to both parties, and it is very fair to everyone involved.

Sat Mar 26, 2005 11:14 am   Reply with quote      

FYI, you can also use http://creativecommons.org/text/ to find content published under Creative Commons licenses.