[FC-discuss] Free Culture Timeline

Kevin Driscoll driscollkevin at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 02:45:05 JST 2007


Awesome news, Asheesh! I actually have this on my "post-exams" to-do list.

Until we get that rolling, I want to encourage everyone to add to the
image directly via Flickr notes / comments here:

http://flickr.com/photos/believekevin/402878297/

Kevin


On Dec 10, 2007 12:35 PM, Asheesh Laroia <freeculture at asheesh.org> wrote:
> Nine months ago, Kevin published a "visual brainstorm" from a Beyond
> Broadcast 2007 event, a Free Culture timeline on a chalkboard:
> http://flickr.com/photos/believekevin/402878297/
>
> It looks pretty cool, and he then wrote, "i want a wiki-editable timeline
> so that we can easily see how crazy things are getting. 2007 is going to
> be out the chimney!"
>
> The FreeCulture.org wiki is now enabled with Super Magic Cow Semantic
> Powers (AKA Semantic MediaWiki), which makes it super easy to make
> timelines using the SIMILE Timeline app.  Check out e.g.
> http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Upcoming_events generated dynamically from wiki
> pages.
>
> So Kevin and others, hopefully this hint can get you going on reviving
> this awesome project using the FreeCulture.org wiki.  If you get stuck on
> technicals, don't hesitate to ask me for help!
>
> -- Asheesh.
>
> --
> I cannot conceive that anybody will require multiplications at the rate
> of 40,000 or even 4,000 per hour ...
>                 -- F. H. Wales (1936)
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