I just stumpled upon a pair of links possibly related to blog printing. The linked pages are in German, hence beware. One is Printed Net Culture -- Konr@ad First Issue. Two is Newsp Papers Online -- What will change the next three years.
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Sunday, August 5, 2007
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Life in Babylon blog -- (CC) (BY) (SA) 2.0
A non-regional blog under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike with a sports portion reading quite good -- for someone not interested in [passive, i.e. couch sitting] sports at all.
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Netbib blog -- (CC) (BY) 2.0
Noticed, the German language library blog netbib goes under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0. Despite that's a rather small local relationship, however it might serve by some reliable background info.
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Search for commercially reusable content under Creative Commons
There are tons of "pages that are free to use or share, even commercially", findable by a search offered by Creative Commons.
On the page linked above, tabbed browsing metaphor gets used in a misleading manner: One might expect clicking on any of the tabs results in a search entry field below the series of tabs. But that's not the case. The tabs, apparently, became tabs only by accident.
Instead, the interesting part of the story begins when choosing a tab, then forgetting the tabbed browsing metaphor and use the one-liner text entry field at the top of the page.
There you enter the thing your looking for. Then, the search gets performed by the search tool you choosed before by selecting that "tab". And then, after you get the results of your search, the tabs suddenly make sense: The results appear the tab you chose. And clicking to any alternative tab results in quickly asking the matching search engine for a search, and the search results get displayed in the "tabbed area" also. Just as expected. Only the initial part is confusing.
However, that results in the conclusion this blog has achieved its goal yet: Although manually I found only less than a dozen sources yet, the search engine site reveals "all the rest" (of course, not all of the rest, but a big-number share of it).
Hence, now, I can narrow what to search for. Pick only sources that relate to local issues, look for pictures or text only, maybe entertainment audio files or local even podcasts, and last not least, for sources in a non-foreign language, as that might appeal local 'strangers' most. -- Or, I could go ahead and see which sources might look credible and which don't.
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On the page linked above, tabbed browsing metaphor gets used in a misleading manner: One might expect clicking on any of the tabs results in a search entry field below the series of tabs. But that's not the case. The tabs, apparently, became tabs only by accident.
Instead, the interesting part of the story begins when choosing a tab, then forgetting the tabbed browsing metaphor and use the one-liner text entry field at the top of the page.
There you enter the thing your looking for. Then, the search gets performed by the search tool you choosed before by selecting that "tab". And then, after you get the results of your search, the tabs suddenly make sense: The results appear the tab you chose. And clicking to any alternative tab results in quickly asking the matching search engine for a search, and the search results get displayed in the "tabbed area" also. Just as expected. Only the initial part is confusing.
However, that results in the conclusion this blog has achieved its goal yet: Although manually I found only less than a dozen sources yet, the search engine site reveals "all the rest" (of course, not all of the rest, but a big-number share of it).
Hence, now, I can narrow what to search for. Pick only sources that relate to local issues, look for pictures or text only, maybe entertainment audio files or local even podcasts, and last not least, for sources in a non-foreign language, as that might appeal local 'strangers' most. -- Or, I could go ahead and see which sources might look credible and which don't.
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Pro Linux -- individual re-use agreement
German language Linux news site Pro Linux allows an educative or personal re-use of its content. Also, re-publication and distribution for non-commercial purposes is allowed.
If the interest is a commercial one, the re-publisher needs a written permission.
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If the interest is a commercial one, the re-publisher needs a written permission.
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Netzpolitik.org -- (CC) (BY) (NC) (SA) 2.0
The German politics x net site Netzpolitik.org gets licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike.
To get something of that site republished might be either as simple as just asking Markus -- or nitpicking with the license: In case anyone had a paper republishing content under this license, there might be a price for that paper, but that price were for the work only (selection, compilation, printing, distribution), but not for the content itself. -- I didn't look at the license that deep until now -- as I said, that would become a dirty nitpicking.
Anyways, currently I am looking for re-publishable sources, not after getting anything certain republished that is under (CC) (BY) (NC) (SA) 2.0. However, the (CC) (NC) issue has to be kept in mind.
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To get something of that site republished might be either as simple as just asking Markus -- or nitpicking with the license: In case anyone had a paper republishing content under this license, there might be a price for that paper, but that price were for the work only (selection, compilation, printing, distribution), but not for the content itself. -- I didn't look at the license that deep until now -- as I said, that would become a dirty nitpicking.
Anyways, currently I am looking for re-publishable sources, not after getting anything certain republished that is under (CC) (BY) (NC) (SA) 2.0. However, the (CC) (NC) issue has to be kept in mind.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation Site -- (CC) (BY) (NC) 2.0
Content of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as its home page indicates, is under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0.
The indication is rather small, somewhere in the left sidebar of the site, above the sponsors.
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The indication is rather small, somewhere in the left sidebar of the site, above the sponsors.
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Content of Wikisource
Content of Wikisource is subject of different terms of license, for the English and the German content: German Wikisource content is public domain ("gemeinfrei"), while the English license simply points to the GNU Free Documentation License.
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How to comply the different licenses?
Wiki Commons contributes a kind of HowTo describing how to comply to the several licenses.
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Wikinews -- (CC) (BY) 2.5
The German version of Wikinews is under Creative Commons, Attribution 2.5. Same so for the English version.
That means, under these conditions (German) the content may be re-published.
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That means, under these conditions (German) the content may be re-published.
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Merging found freely re-publishable sources to Print Blogs!
I was out for searching freely republishable sources -- a hundred of them, to be exact, to get a base stock to choose from. For that I set up a collective blog. Here's its introduction:
Also, I found local news might not the relevant news to shift over the news gap. Therefore I copy only the Creative Commons search tool introducing post and some sources not related to my local neighbourhood. -- The copy gets included to the current, the Print Blogs! blog.
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meta blog for re-publishable sourcesAs I quickly found and figured how to use the Creative Commons search tool, the need for a hundred determinable sources dropped. Therefore, the need for that explicit sources collecting blog disappeared.
What is this blog about? This blog is about to collect a 100 freely..conditionally re-publishable web sources. This blog is a helper blog to Print blogs! to collect the sources to actually get done a First Issue of Blog Press.
The blog here is a meta blog. It references external sources.
Also, I found local news might not the relevant news to shift over the news gap. Therefore I copy only the Creative Commons search tool introducing post and some sources not related to my local neighbourhood. -- The copy gets included to the current, the Print Blogs! blog.
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
Fostering a meta blog to collect re-publishable web sources?
What about keeping a meta blog that references sources of the web which may be used for a local print-out of that web news? Such meta-blog postings could tag the source linked by a license tag, plus several tags indicating the source's issue//content.
That way, it might become possible to focus down a newspaper issue to local field of sight rather than a regional view only. In other words: I could set up a selling box near the post office and another one near the work exchange, and both issues would differ by addressing different kinds of backgrounds, although both boxes might stand within sight.
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That way, it might become possible to focus down a newspaper issue to local field of sight rather than a regional view only. In other words: I could set up a selling box near the post office and another one near the work exchange, and both issues would differ by addressing different kinds of backgrounds, although both boxes might stand within sight.
Updates: none so far
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Newspapers begin to switch to using blogs as their primary news channel
Chicago Tribune switches to blogs as its primary news channel. Publishing 2.0 reports on that issue.
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Monday, July 9, 2007
an issue with treemap rendering to a text
Treemap layout related to graphics and related to text might be a bit different: Text might require some high-end rendering, i.e. without stairy characters nor with any visible anti-aliasing. Hence, the available treemap generators cannot simply get re-used to render whole articles: Printing the resulting images inevitably would cause that stairy look, and antialising it would become visible too.
Alternative might be to apply treemap division of text areas of a sheet. That could be achieved by using tables as known from HTML source code: Larger areas would get merged by something like a colspan. Therefore, to get a chance to get treemap cells of decreasing sizes, originally, the raster needs to be fine-grained, e.g. a hundred by a hundred cells -- to be able to address cells of at most one percent in height/width of the sheet.
Such tables, could get rendered to HTML or to LaTeX -- and from there to any format one can imagine.
However, there is an issue with that, still, left over: Where the ruby text treemap (mostly) gets it done to let the text end at the cell boundraries. -- In a TeX file that might miscarry since the text renderer might 'choose' the more simple approach: blow up the cell so that all the text given fits there, into the boundraries. -- Which would violate the total size of the table and might contradict the visual impression of the tree map too. Might it be, some of the cells would grow larger than initialized by the treemap, and others might shrink because of less text than those overgrown cells?
That's an issue that remains to be solved.
Updates: none so far
Alternative might be to apply treemap division of text areas of a sheet. That could be achieved by using tables as known from HTML source code: Larger areas would get merged by something like a colspan. Therefore, to get a chance to get treemap cells of decreasing sizes, originally, the raster needs to be fine-grained, e.g. a hundred by a hundred cells -- to be able to address cells of at most one percent in height/width of the sheet.
Such tables, could get rendered to HTML or to LaTeX -- and from there to any format one can imagine.
However, there is an issue with that, still, left over: Where the ruby text treemap (mostly) gets it done to let the text end at the cell boundraries. -- In a TeX file that might miscarry since the text renderer might 'choose' the more simple approach: blow up the cell so that all the text given fits there, into the boundraries. -- Which would violate the total size of the table and might contradict the visual impression of the tree map too. Might it be, some of the cells would grow larger than initialized by the treemap, and others might shrink because of less text than those overgrown cells?
That's an issue that remains to be solved.
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links on rendering text to tree maps
Since having decided already to apply treemaps to any postings printed, I looked around for some tree mapping tools for text, especially for LaTeX -- since that can easily get rendered to top-quality print output.
So far, I noticed:
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So far, I noticed:
- Google Code Search treemap text?
- Google treemap latex
- SPDITNER - Treemap-0.2 - Treemap::Output
- SPDITNER - Treemap-0.2 - Treemap::Output::PrintedText
- Many Eyes -- On Tree Maps
- Ruby Treemap
- Ruby Treemap - RDoc
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Thursday, June 21, 2007
Dear visitor, thanks for the link!
Today, another page lander revealed another page dealing with blogs about to print. Amongst them something like "Print 2.0". Might be worth a read. -- It's a technorati search results page.
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
Set up a publicly manageable calendar that lists the events someone otherwise provides manually, not automatically processable
Just the moment I encourage you to tell me your assessment of any my news sources, also for calendars, I get the idea about -- What about to set up an own calendar that lists the events other sites provide - but not as RSS? -- Any publicly manageable calendar tool might suffice for that aim, and, maybe, the original event reporters might get won to publish to that calendar or any compatible instead of to continue their manual work, unreliably to automatic processing.
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Find freely republishable news sources, sources for upcoming events
Strategy changed. Now, there are two concrete goals to get done with this project, at least for a first issue.
And, as Print Blogs! is the initiation of a project from thereaders to the readers -- from people to the people, some of them might help to broaden the pool of known freely republishable sources.
My goal is to establish a credibility of net sources amongst offline people. Therefore, I want all the sources I select to match one important criterion: Be objective! At least, be neutral!
If the source obvously tends to inject propaganda into its sight or myths like conspiracy theories, it's not mine for republication. - These topics are not excluded, but at least I want the sources make clear that what they say is speculative. -- A witness who sees a German armed forces tank near a demonstration, want to film the military and they hide. Because of that, the witness claims, they hid, hence their operation was illegally. -- What is worth such a source? Mixing what he witnesses and what he believes, apparently unable to discern the one from the other -- what a value has such a witness? -- I think: none. Hence, such reports shall not be part of my newscoverage-by-republication. I want the sources the reports rely on be clear, and I want reliable witnesses. -- How else could anyone achieve credibility for the news organ you provide?
As the republishable sources might cumulate over time, I'd really like to learn your assessments for the credibility of the sources I might list. Not only for plain news sources but for calendars also. Your hints on other sources might become quite helpful!
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- locate freely republishable sources -- also for content unusual for print republication, like audio and video, and content unusual for mass media, like calendars or other (what other formats do exist?)
- determine upcoming events so that free sources can be selected beforehand, so that their content can get compared to the mass media news coverage.
And, as Print Blogs! is the initiation of a project from the
My goal is to establish a credibility of net sources amongst offline people. Therefore, I want all the sources I select to match one important criterion: Be objective! At least, be neutral!
If the source obvously tends to inject propaganda into its sight or myths like conspiracy theories, it's not mine for republication. - These topics are not excluded, but at least I want the sources make clear that what they say is speculative. -- A witness who sees a German armed forces tank near a demonstration, want to film the military and they hide. Because of that, the witness claims, they hid, hence their operation was illegally. -- What is worth such a source? Mixing what he witnesses and what he believes, apparently unable to discern the one from the other -- what a value has such a witness? -- I think: none. Hence, such reports shall not be part of my newscoverage-by-republication. I want the sources the reports rely on be clear, and I want reliable witnesses. -- How else could anyone achieve credibility for the news organ you provide?
As the republishable sources might cumulate over time, I'd really like to learn your assessments for the credibility of the sources I might list. Not only for plain news sources but for calendars also. Your hints on other sources might become quite helpful!
Updates: none so far
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