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EFF pushing BBC into CC’ing their content
Electronic Frontier Foundation Supports BBC’s “Creative Archive” – a press release telling us about the push from EFF to influence the UK government to Creative Commons the whole back-catalogue of the BBC. Imagine that. Cut’n paste. Mix’n match. Re-use. Remix. (Oh, that all sounded very mid-90s. I’ll stop now.) The prospect seems rather bright, though. …
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Google sets, again
I am so impressed with Google sets, where I searched for these terms. I typed in the titles of a few big RPG products, and I was a amazed at the set Google Sets could produce. Very nice. Might be handy for idea-zapping with yourself.
Free Danish university tool
This here is a report on a piece of Danish software called Scribo which is learning tool for those who are writing academia for the first time. It is only compatible with Win95/98.
Blog software: bBlog and Snurf
A PHP implementation called [bBlog](http://www.bblog.com/about.php) is [Smary](http://smarty.php.net/)-centric. Neat. Look also at [Snurf](http://bdash.bluewire.net.nz/2004/08/02/snurf-a-python-based-blogging-system/), which is a Python-based blogging system. Snurf’s designer calls attention to [a W3 document](http://www.w3.org/TR/chips/) about problems any blog designer, or CMS designer could run into. He also [points out in a blog entry](http://bdash.bluewire.net.nz/2004/07/28/new-website-backend/) the problems he had with bBlog, what made him hack …
Accessible FORMs
The article [“An Accessible Method of Hiding HTML Content”](http://www.webaim.org/techniques/articles/hiddentext) shows some problems with screen readers, that is tools for those with visual disabilities. When creating websites for *everyone*, the small things matter.
Hello world!
So there, new blog. Gotta set one up for the darling, too. These things are ne-e-at. Online everything, and neat interface to edit and create stuff. This is the kind of software that gets everyone going, creating [graphics](http://wiki.wordpress.org/Templates%20or%20Themes%20List) ([here, too](http://www.alexking.org/index.php?content=software/wordpress/styles.php)) and [plugins](http://wiki.wordpress.org/Plugin) (yeah, an API for plugins, too!). I am thrilled. See you. By the …