Alan Gutierrez

Thank you to the people who have been playing along with the Creative Commons. It has made it much easier to post at Think New Orleans. Because we’re sharing our photos in Flickr photo groups, I can pluck an image to put a post in context, in the context of our lives that we’re all living together.

The Unified New Orleans Plan web site. Click on any page and you will see the front page. People are flustered by this. There is no there there. It’s day 329. Well, it’s not the only web site that is empty around these parts.

I’m pleased, actually. They got one thing big thing right.

I’m pleased to see that the content of the UNOP will be released under the Creative Commons. There is a link to the Creative Commons license they chose. This is the only web site in New Orleans that I know of that has made this decision. The Creative Commons license tells you exactly how you can share the information.

We get a lot of email from lawyers, to our mailing lists, with stupid email disclaimers. They think they are sharing information? These disclaimers do not apply to me, of course, because I have my own disclaimer.

What ever they post at UNOP, it will be more accessible than anything posted almost anywhere else in New Orleans civic web sites.