From: Jon P. <jo...@cr...> - 2007-02-14 20:52:45
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On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 15:34 -0500, Brett Gaylor wrote: > I think for a lot of the remix communities, just having footage > listed is pretty important. ie, if users can point to stuff on > youtube, google, flickr, etc. The concerns about the links breaking > are valid, but legitimate content should stay put. Its all the > saturday night live episodes that will move... > Right and possibly even more important for ccHost, Mike pointed out, is to scrape the page that content is on and try to find the license for the content so that we can get legally licensed material onto ccHost. It is a pretty simple task, but needs to account for how one provides a link, such as a direct URL to the media and/or a page where the media is referenced, which is much more likely to contain a rel="license" attribute pointing to the proper license for the media... Jon > On 14-Feb-07, at 3:16 PM, Jon Phillips wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:53 -0800, Victor Stone wrote: > >> On 2/13/07, Jon Phillips <jo...@cr...> wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 00:05 -0500, Asheesh Laroia wrote: > >>>> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Victor Stone wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> If you want to use the URL to suck the file down to the ccHost > >>>>> server > >>>>> then we can discuss easy ways to do that. > >>>> > >>>> Okay, what are your thoughts on that? I'm happy to do it that way. > >>>> > >>> Why not allow for links if someone does the work of adding > >>> support for > >>> this? > >> > >> lol -- the once-a-month-poke-the-bear mail? > >> > >> Here is the final and complete compendium of responses (list archives > >> are broken again, otherwise I would link): > >> > >> 1. ..because a Content Management system typically requires > >> Content to Manage. > >> > >> 2. I've already spelled out (in code) here on this list how to > >> enhance > >> the sample pools, which is a link management sub-system, so any > >> takers > >> there would be more than welcome > >> > >> 3. If the links are treated internally like short-cut/alias/link > >> files > >> then there are zero changes that need to made to core, like I > >> demonstrate with the remote fetch code I just posted. > >> > >> 4. A blogging component (that accepts feeds) is no more than 2-3 days > >> work for someone familiar with the codebase. But even there, having a > >> single listing of content and blog entries would be tricky and > >> require > >> a complete overhaul of every single template that iterates over > >> records. > >> > >> 5. The challenge remains open and probably exposes a glaring lack of > >> visionary insight on my part but here goes (yet again): I have > >> lots of > >> experience (decades actually) dealing with multi-dual-cross purposed > >> software in a single code base. What can I say, Big Mistake. If > >> someone has solved this issue I will humbly accept the precedence and > >> steal vigorously. > >> > >> Consider the bear growled ;) > >> VS > > > > Victor rules :) Thanks for point-by-point bear ruling :) I think this > > feature will help many many communities... > > > > Jon > > > > -- > > Jon Phillips > > jo...@cr... > > cell: 510.499.0894 > > > > Community Developer > > Creative Commons > > www.creativecommons.org > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > > share your > > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php? > > page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Cctools-cchost mailing list > > Cct...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cctools-cchost > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Cctools-cchost mailing list > Cct...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cctools-cchost -- Jon Phillips jo...@cr... cell: 510.499.0894 Community Developer Creative Commons www.creativecommons.org |