Thanks to all of you who participated in the Survey on Open Source Adoption and Usage. We have included the results of the survey (with any identifying comments redacted to ensure confidentiality) on the OSAAC website, located here: http://rhetoricalcommons.org/OSAAC/node/22. We have done some data analysis and are also providing the raw data in Microsoft Excel (.xls) format. In the near future, we will include an analysis of these findings in a joint publication.

Once again, thank you for your participation.

Ben McCorkle, Asst. Professor of English, OSU Marion, mccorkle.12[at]osu.edu

Slashdot has picked up a story stating that all 44 Blackboard patient claims have been invalidated by the USPTO. Such patients may have hindered other Learning Management Systems (such as Moodle) and Content Management Systems (such as Drupal).

This from the Humanist Listserv (humanist@Princeton.EDU):

I'm pleased to announce a new ListServ for librarians called 'DRUPAL4LIB'.

As the name implies, 'DRUPAL4LIB' is for those interested in Drupal, a popular open-source CMS, as it relates to libraries and librarians.

The idea is to have a forum to exchange ideas and advice, share experiences, and maybe even collaborate on a couple of projects that highlight the use of Drupal in a library context.

In 2003, SixApart released Movable Type version 2.6, which included options for Creative Commons licenses. At the time, I was (and still am) very impressed that Creative Commons licenses were built right into the code of a popular weblog software application. Yochai Benkler's framework of layers is applicable here; Movable Type has Creative Commons embedded into the logical (code) layer. Creative Commons' own use of metadata for RSS and searchable CC-licensed content is an instance of this as well.

I believe, if I'm not mistaken, that WordPress has a plugin that lets you choose a CC license within WordPress also, but will a WordPress user please confirm this? I have a wordpress.com account, and I poked around in the dashboard but couldn't find CC license selection anywhere in the options. Drupal has a Creative Commons module.

Finally, are there other weblog software apps which have CC license selection built into the core software code, or which have CC license selection plugins? Doesn't LiveJournal have a CC option now that they're affiliated with SixApart? This information will help me with a paper I'm revising.