Citing like Xanadu

April 3rd, 2004 by skyfaller

In the spirit of Ted Nelson‘s linked quotations idea, where instead of copying and pasting text you link to the original source, Trevor F. Smith has produced a version of Lessig’s Free Culture with anchors for each paragraph. Hott! Now we can quote Lessig like we’re quoting from the Bible! Lessig actually used this site to quote himself while rebutting Stephen Manes. Trevor also provides a purple numbered version of Eastern Standard Tribe, by Cory Doctorow, which is also released under a Creative Commons license. It’s amazing to see all the wonderful things that the free culture ethos enables…

2 Responses to “Citing like Xanadu”

  1. Lessig Blog Says:

    ReMixes: What the Web was for
    As FreeCulture (the movement — nothing to do with me) points out, one weakness to the web that would nag Ted Nelson is the inability easily and always to point directly to a part of the text on a webpage. Trevor Smith has solved that with Free Culture…

  2. fix Says:

    this page is not currently valid xhtml
    http://freeculture.org/blog/index.php?p=25

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