{"id":72,"date":"2006-08-15T10:54:06","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T10:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davecormier.com\/edblog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2006-08-15T10:54:06","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T10:54:06","slug":"comments-notes-and-a-ah-correction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davecormier.com\/edblog\/2006\/08\/15\/comments-notes-and-a-ah-correction\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments, notes and a&#8230; ah&#8230; correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll start with the correction. In returning to <a title=\"david jakes\" href=\"http:\/\/jakespeak.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/blogging-blackboard-and-history-of.html\">David Jakes&#8217; post<\/a> from a few days ago I saw a comment from a reader of my blog saying that he thought I&#8217;d made an unfair representation of David&#8217;s position. While i did say that i agreed that the patent office had dropped the ball, I forgot to include this text&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I think <a href=\"http:\/\/blogoehlert.typepad.com\/eclippings\/\">Mark Oehlert<\/a> gets it right in his post title about the situation, appropriately entitled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/blogoehlert.typepad.com\/eclippings\/2006\/08\/lms_patented_is.html\">LMS Patented!! Is anyone home at the <strong>Patent Office<\/strong><\/a>?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (my emphasis)<br \/>\nShouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t we be blaming the patent office for allowing the patent? Isn&#8217;t Blackboard, Inc. just taking advantage of what is available to them as a corporation?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>above my third comment&#8230; which, in retrospect, makes David&#8217;s position much clearer. He&#8217;s saying (I guess) that if fault their is, it lies in the system. A publicly traded corporation must, by its structure, take advantage of every legal opportunity. And it is the fault of the patent office for offering this legal opportunity. I&#8217;m not sure i agree, and i&#8217;m not sure that it counters the majority position taken up in the edubloggosphere, but I apologize for not fully representing his position. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/10th\/columns\/truthandthenet_doctorow.html\">As Cory Doctorow says<\/a>, that&#8217;s the great advantage of blogs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blogs, Wikipedia, and other online media fail gracefully indeed. When a newspaper gets a story wrong, it can take 24 hours to get a correction out \u00e2\u20ac\u201c if it corrects it at all. There&#8217;s no ready way to link criticism of a newspaper article with the article itself. Certainly, you can&#8217;t make the edits yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Props to <a title=\"tom hoffman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/cgi-bin\/page.cgi?topic=133\">Stephen Downes for highlighting the fact<\/a> that this is not exactly the first time that educators (and edubloggers) have been talking about this for a while in response to the claim of some edubloggers that the community has been sitting idly by ignoring patents until a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>I would very much like, speaking of edubloggers, to get a community activity together for <a title=\"edublogging\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search?search=edublog&#038;go=Go\">creating that page on wikipedia<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Should be pretty simple, all we need to do is go there and create the page. The problem is, my creations have been getting deleted lately, (the first ones i&#8217;ve made) and i&#8217;m thinking i&#8217;ll need more people around to make it happen. Anyone interested&#8230;? (Not like i&#8217;ll be obsessively checking the page or anything)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re ramping up our edu-projects for the fall over in the worldbridges community. We&#8217;re being much more careful about how much we take on this year, but if you are interested in taking part, <a href=\"http:\/\/edtechtalk.com\">drop by on of our shows<\/a> , come to the <a href=\"http:\/\/elgg.educationbridges.net\">edu-elgg<\/a> or send us an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll start with the correction. 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