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Carping Over Creative Commons

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the self-proving-thesis dept.

scubacuda writes "Arnold Kling, in his article, Content is Crap, writes, 'While there are many Net-heads who share Dan Gillmor's [and Larry Lessig's] enthusiasm for Creative Commons, I do not. It has little or no significance, because it is based on a strikingly naive 60's-retro ideological view of how content intermediaries function.' He compares artists' works to, well, raw sewage that publishers filter into something that can be later consumed by the public. 'What Creative Commons lets you do as an author is label your stuff before you flush it down the toilet.' Kling points to Bayesian Intermediaries (filters based on flexible keyword weights and 'trained' by user preferences) and weblogs as good ways to filter out the drivel that many content creators produce. (Dan Gilmore and Siva Vaidhayanatha respond, to which Kling responds in his blog."

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  1. "filter out the drivel" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That pretty much dooms slashdot, don't you think?

  2. a fantastic troll by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 4, Funny
    i wonder if kling built his article specifically to troll slashdot based upon keywords. Let's see: 1) Mention notable figure (lessig) check! 2) Take contrarian view (content creators are sewage) check! 3)Include buzzword (bayesian filter) check! 4) For bonus points, if at all possible, namedrop Google. check!

    Troll complete!

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  3. Re:But seriously by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your post manages to agree with the poster by pointing out that he is full of shit.

    +1 for Irony--Hell I've even got a web log in my sig, make it +2

  4. In other important BLOG news by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bill Finklebork thinks the donut he bought this morning might have been a day-old, it tasted a little stale. He also thinks that someone should be airing Beavis & Butthead in syndication.

    Truly this is important to us all, as it affects society at it's very core.

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  5. it's a good thing we have quality "filters" ... by timothy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Like the FOX Network.

    timothy

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  6. with all of the sewage and toilet analogies... by rfischer · · Score: 2, Funny

    maybe this story should be called 'Crapping Over Creative Commons'

  7. Check out my latest sewage! by asparagus · · Score: 3, Funny

    Flame.

    You can check out some of my other raw crap here.

    -Brett

  8. Nice long article by hikousen · · Score: 2, Funny

    with the primary messages: everything sux. Only big media companies know what people want.

    lol

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