Blog Customization 0
I feel sorry for this blog every time I look at it - I still didn’t get to edit the description and author details… *blush* And it’s gonna be a month soon since I’ve got it. I do ned to get to it some time soon…
Feels terrible catching up 0
As you all know, I’ve been away from my blog and the forum for a while - only to come back and see how things took off and what a huge load of stuff I missed on. Trying to catch up with it now, reading it all one by one, now I know what new people on the forum feel like having to cope with all those loads of information at once to be able to participate adequately. My karma is so low compared to other regulars, no wonder, who has last seen any valuable input from me? OK enough moaning, gotta get back to reading the past posts…. 
“Some Rights Reserved” 0
Came across this site recently: http://creativecommons.org . They say
Too often the debate over creative control tends to the extremes. At one pole is a vision of total control — a world in which every last use of a work is regulated and in which “all rights reserved” (and then some) is the norm. At the other end is a vision of anarchy — a world in which creators enjoy a wide range of freedom but are left vulnerable to exploitation. Balance, compromise, and moderation — once the driving forces of a copyright system that valued innovation and protection equally — have become endangered species.
Creative Commons is working to revive them. We use private rights to create public goods: creative works set free for certain uses. Like the free software and open-source movements, our ends are cooperative and community-minded, but our means are voluntary and libertarian. We work to offer creators a best-of-both-worlds way to protect their works while encouraging certain uses of them — to declare “some rights reserved.”
Seems like a good idea - but of course it’s up to everybody’s good will for it to work.