As noted on the Creative Commons blog, the folks at Digg have converted to CC0 (replacing a multiyear use of a different public domain legal tool).
This is very cool on lots of levels. But Daniel Burka of Digg said it best, so I'll make this a short post by simply quoting him...
This is good for the internet and good for society.
He's talking about the public domain, and he's right.
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Yesterday the preeminent socially generated news site, digg.com, nearly exploded.
I remember seeing sporadic bursts of activity here when Digg, one of the big aggregator sites, would link to something here, but I haven't seen that in a while — but now I learn that there is a fanatically active group of conservative haters at work over there.
I have been meaning to post something useful lately, but I am currently at the southeastern section of the APS.
Can we once and for all recognize that movement conservatives do not believe in the fair exchange of ideas?