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Four short links: 13 December 2011

Newton's Notebooks, Creative Commons, Node HTTP, and Data Business

by | @gnat | +Nat Torkington | Comments: 2 | December 13, 2011
  1. Newton’s Notebooks Digitised — wonderful for historians, professional and amateur. I love (a) his handwriting; (b) the pages full of long division that remind us what an amazing time-saver the calculator and then computer was; (c) use of “yn” for “then (the y is actually a thorn, pronounced “th”, and it’s from this that we get “ye”, actually pronounced pronounced “the”). All that and chromatic separation of light, inverse square law, and alchemical mysteries.
  2. Creative Commons Kicks Off 4.0 Round — public discussion process around issues that will lead to a new version of the CC licenses.
  3. Shred — an HTTP client library for node.js. (via Javascript Weekly)
  4. Holding Back the Age of Data (Redmonk) — Absent a market with well understood licensing and distribution mechanisms, each data negotiation – whether the subject is attribution, exclusivity, license, price or all of the above – is a one off. Very good essay into the evolution of a mature software industry into an immature data industry.
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  • Sean

    Thanks for the tidbit about ‘ye’ (and ‘yn’). Great info.

  • John Watkins

    Unfortunately, Cambridge has speciously claimed a copyright on Newton’s notebook, which of course is in the public domain and belongs to all of human culture.