sometimes life kindly sends you a signal that, yes, things are going in the right direction.

those of you who have been paying attention will recall that, on Monday, i singled out the Creative Commons project and Onion Networks' Open Content Network (OCN) as two important initiatives being announced at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. the San Jose Mercury News' Dan Gillmor seems to feel much the same way. he devotes today's column to Onion Networks/OCN as a worthy descendent of the past two years of feverish P2P development (ie, clever, elegant, and totally destabilizing) and Creative Commons as a natural extension of the copyleft ideal into all forms of content.

i think they're two great tastes that taste great together.

write a script. get some friends. make a movie. add a soundtrack. license it to be shared freely using the Creative Commons service. throw it onto the Open Content Network to be distributed. if you've done a good job, you'll have thousands upon thousands of people who've seen your work. maybe next time, you do it form money (nothing wrong with that). maybe next time you do it just for fun. the point is, you couldn't really do it before.

time to buy a TiBook and a Canon XL1s. i know you can do it for less, but i have technolust.