Creative Commons
While I was looking for some flash animations to show at a workshop in Ogallala, NE on Thursday, I came across a fun couple of videos that described what creative commons was. I've heard about creative commons for a long time and knew the basics of what the system was, but after discussion on Thursday decided that I should learn more about it. I visited their site to take a good look and was really impressed by what is there. First, and I'm not sure how I missed this, they have the ability to search for others' work right on their front page. Second, they have a nice system for evaluating your own work and deciding how to license it. It's really a great idea and something that I think returns a lot of things on the internet to the academic ideals on which it was built.