29
Sep
Royalty free photo websites
Buying the rights to use photos on your site can be an expensive proposition, starting from dozens of dollars and going into the hundreds per photo. Luckily, there are a lot of websites out there cataloguing photos that can be used for free. The official term is royalty free photos, and usually there are some …
02
Jun
3 new Internet Wonders about maps
Almost every week there seems to be a great new application of technology on the Internet. Here are some recent examples to do with uses of an Internet wonder in its own right, Google Maps:
forest fire in Louisiana
Google Sightseeing: blog made up of photos of the Google Satellite site, with detailed aerial views of the …
08
Apr
What are the Creative Commons?
If you look at the bottom of this blog's right hand column, you'll see this box: It means that you (and anybody else) are free to copy and distribute the contents of this blog, under the following conditions:
Attribution: You must give the original author credit (that would be me).
Noncommercial: You may not use this work …
28
Mar
Wonders of the Internet Part One: Wikipedia
The Wikipedia is a free web-based encyclopedia with content written by an army of volunteers. It's a fabulous resource and gives me hope for humanity. Wired magazine reports:
In 2005, the nonprofit venture is the largest encyclopedia on the planet. Wikipedia offers 500,000 articles in English – compared with Britannica's 80,000 and Encarta's 4,500 – fashioned …