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December 16, 2008

Happy 6th Birthday, Creative Commons

Filed under: Knight Pulse — Kristen Taylor @ 7:09 am

From our new community site, Knight Pulse:
How can licensing give creators control over use of their work?

Eric Steuer, Creative Director of Creative Commons tell us how cc licenses empower creators and shares what’s next for the organization. Find more at the Creative Commons blog, wiki, and projects page. (Many Knight projects use CC licenses; all projects in Knight News Challenge are open source.)

Happy 6th Birthday, Creative Commons!

How do you license your work? (And what do you think of our new Pulse feature?)

We'll go first: all Knight Blog content is licensed under CC 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works, all Knight Pulse content is licensed under CC 3.0 Attribution-Share Alike.

Your turn. Let us know in the comments.

November 10, 2008

Announcing Knight Pulse

Filed under: Knight Pulse — Kristen Taylor @ 7:43 am

Today, Knight is launching a new community site called Knight Pulse, a place to discuss the future of information.

Knight Pulse screenshot (knightpulse.org)

Updated: Here’s a video introducing the site:

Despite the current explosion of information, we are less informed. And in a world defined by information exchange, we need new ways to give, share, find, and receive information in our communities.

The goal of the Pulse site is to start conversations with a video post and listen as you debate ideas in the comments (and in other places, linking back). The site gives you a chance to develop collaborative projects about information that Knight Foundation may consider funding.

On the site, you’ll find information projects that the Knight Foundation is funding, events that foundation staff and Pulse users are attending, opportunities to volunteer, and blog posts about information needs from feeds across the Web.

And you’ll find profiles of people like you, who are also interested in improving information delivery–from details about local restaurant inspections (Everyblock) to discovering perspectives from bloggers around the world (Rising Voices).

Join the conversation and let us know what you think of the site–we’re using Get Satisfaction and UserVoice for feedback, both on the Pulse ‘Widgets‘ page, or leave a comment below–

The site is built in Drupal, and we are very pleased with the team at Development Seed and their great work on this project.