Category Archives: Free Culture

Great Artists Still Steal

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Lloyd

Young great artists still steal.
Old great artists litigate?
I missed the news about the Apple-HTC Patent Lawsuit (Google Android) until tonight when I found out about it on Mark Jaquith’s blog.
I’m happy that these cards of Apple are finally on the table. … Continue reading →

Also posted in Computing, Consuming, Opinion | Tagged Apple Computer Inc, Chilling Effects, Fairness, google, Google Android, HTC, Innovating, innovation, Inventing, Invention, iPad, iPhone, John Gruber, Lawsuit, Mark Jaquith, Multi-touch, patent, Protesting | 4 Comments

Government for the People Makes You Special

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Lloyd

“It turns out that the International Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella group for organisations including the MPAA and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade Representative to consider countries like Indonesia, Brazil and India for its “Special 301 watchlist” because they … Continue reading →

Also posted in Open Source | Tagged Andres Guadamuz, Brazil, copyright, Copyright Laws, Free Culture, IIPA, Indonesia, intellectual property, IP, MPAA, Open Source, RIAA, secretive anti-counterfeiting treaty, Special 301, Special 301 Watchlist, TPM, US Government, US Lobby Groups, Watch List | Leave a comment

WordPress 3 Coming Together

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Lloyd

The delirious pace of WordPress 3 development has been delicious!
I’ve enjoyed not being able to keep up at all.
The sprint is on to feature freeze!
There’s going to be a patch sprint of sorts for 3.0 this week. Please grab a … Continue reading →

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged Kubrick Theme, twentyten theme, WordPress, WordPress 3.0, WordPress Development, WordPress Themes | 4 Comments

WordPress Declaration of Independence

Posted on January 22, 2010 by Lloyd

The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source project: to democratize publishing through Open Source, GPL software.
The point of the foundation is to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to … Continue reading →

Also posted in Open Source, WordPress | Tagged 501(c)3 non-profit organization, Free Culture, GNU Public License, GPL, Matt Mullenweg, Non-Profit, Open Source, Web Publishing, WordPress, WordPress Foundation, WordPress.com | 1 Comment

Versatile and Elegant, WordPress, Democratizing Publishing

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Lloyd

The combination of the elegant and versatile WordPress and the ground breaking Kubrick made that possible, turning the democratization of publishing from an idealized concept into a concrete reality.
Tina Daunt, “The Secret History of Kubrick, the Blog Theme That Changed … Continue reading →

Also posted in Computing, WordPress | Tagged Kubrick WordPress Theme, Software Design, Software Products, Tina Daunt, WordPress, WordPress Themes | Leave a comment

Counterfeit Intellectual Property

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Lloyd

What’s interesting is that there’s clearly a collateral campaign underway to support ACTA by hammering on the wickedness of counterfeiting – allowing the bait and switch game to be played again. Here’s an example:
Canada trails far behind the United States, United … Continue reading →

| Tagged contentious labels, copyright law, DMCA, Free Culture, implicit viewpoints, intellectual property, pejorative labels | Leave a comment

The Clear Six Apart Open Web

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Lloyd

One of my inspirations Simon Willison, as well as his excellent deep analysis on numerous web development issues, provides pithy links and comments in from “elsewhere” on his blog. I highly recommend subscribing to his feed.
Today, he shared this quote … Continue reading →

Also posted in Web | Tagged Anil Dash, datacide, Export, Open Web, Six Apart, TypePad, Vender lock-in, Vox | Leave a comment

Free and Open Source from the Roots Up

Posted on October 2, 2009 by Lloyd

“Free and open source from the roots up. “Open source” can be much more than a development methodology. For me, it also constitutes a world view that upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage that saw their apex in the twentieth … Continue reading →

Also posted in Open Source | Tagged Automattic, codepoet, Free and Open Source from the Roots Up, Free Culture, Matt Mullenweg, Open Source, Paul Kim, Toni Schneider, Upends institutionalized notions of competitive advantage, WordPress, WordPress.com VIPs | 5 Comments

Everything In Our Power

Posted on September 8, 2009 by Lloyd

WordPress is a community of hundreds of people that read the code every day, audit it, update it, and care enough about keeping your blog safe that we do things like release updates weeks apart from each other even though … Continue reading →

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged Community, Developers, Open Source, open source participants, Partici, Security, Software Development, WordPress | Leave a comment

wp-content in Code is a Tell for Common WordPress Coding Mistakes

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Lloyd

Regularly while reviewing themes and plugins, I’ll see URLs or paths that include ‘wp-content’. This is a often a hint of a WordPress coding mistake.
Consider this simple example:
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://example.com/wp-content/themes/default/style-ie.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
If as part of a migration or server … Continue reading →

Also posted in WordPress | Tagged Absolution Paths, ABSPATH, bloginfo(), Duane Storey, get_stylesheet_directory(), get_stylesheet_directory_uri(), get_stylesheet_uri(), Mark Jaquith, php, Plugin Development, Relative Paths, STYLESHEETPATH, TEMPLATEPATH, URLs, Will Norris, WordPress, WordPress Plugin Checker, WordPress Theme Development, WordPress.com, wp-content, WP_CONTENT_DIR | 1 Comment