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A recent addition to my Flickr stream, and qualifies as a 'free culture' entry since it is licensed under a Creative Commons license.

A topic for present and future

After a fairly long hiatus, I am going back to my blogging roots... starting today, this blog space will be about a very important subject: free culture. When I started blogging back towards the end of 2004, my intent was to blog about all things free culture but things kind of got muddy. From now on, free culture takes priority. Of course, I could have some other items I touch on, but generally, this space will be free culture-oriented.

Robert Scoble and blogging boredom

Robert Scoble is a pretty interesting fellow. I have been following him since he was a Microsoft employee. Over the past year, I have been an avid reader of his blog and viewer of his video series, ScobleShow. Scoble has recently announced that he plans on scaling back his blogging, and I don't blame him at all. I have fallen in and out of love with blogging. If you aren't doing it for money, it's a real drain on your time. I guess it's a drain on your time even if you are doing it for the money, but it's hard to build an audience and then keep them around. I tried to blog consistently since late 2004 and it's tough as hell. Granted, I have never stated I stated I was a pro writer (far from it), but one of the really important aspects of any writing is the actual ability to write and make sense. So, a lot of time can be spent trying to make sense and not to look like an idiot in the process.

Blogging is not for everyone... it's probably not for me, but I am going to keep trying.

HP: Linux is ready for the enterprise

From CNET: "Randy Hergett, HP's director of engineering for open-source and Linux organization, said at the Gelato Itanium Conference & Expo in Singapore on Monday that Linux is ready to be used in some mission-critical applications, despite a perception that there are gaps in areas such as manageability."

This is simply more affirmation that Linux is poised to continue to expand in business.

Please support Creative Commons

Creative Commons has just launched a new fundraising campaign. Their goal is to receive $500,000 by the end of this year. If possible, please help them out. CC is a very important organization.

Find out ways to support CC here.

Interesting clouds

Dawn on the launchpad

This image is free and in the public domain.