Not sure why I hadn’t run accross the Wikimedia Commons site before today, but I’m glad I finally did. Every time I find another wiki site like this I just find the concept very powerful. I just think it’s so cool that people would put their work into the public domain without the normal restrictions that copyright imposes. There are pictures, paintings, maps, drawings, audio files…and it appears new submissions are coming fast and furious.

On a side note, it’s actually pretty impressive the way the Wikimedia Foundation seems to be growing. If people start to really accept the idea of sharing content for the greater good, we may very well be on our way to a better place.

Looking at some of the premium photos, I think a masthead redesign here just may be in order…
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I know that I’ve been posting more narrative than usual lately, but it seems like all of a sudden, a lot more people want to talk about the implications of the Read/Write Web. Go figure.

Today’s installment involves my colleague who menitoned his brother’s problem with Internet sources a couple of weeks ago. The other day, we were talking about the Future of the World when he said “You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about this whole concept, and I think I’ve been looking at it from the ‘1984′ angle where Big Brother comes in and shuts it down when it gets too threatening. But what I’ve come to wonder,” he says, “is if this isn’t more like ‘Farenheit 451′ where the problem is that people don’t care enough to change society even though they have the opportunity to do so.”

Maybe not.

The battle for the ‘Net is about to be engaged…

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