Two of the best parts of the Internet celebrate their 24th birthday today, the online multilingual encyclopedia Wikipedia maintained by thousands of volunteers and Creative Commons, the nonprofit organization offering online legal tools to the public for sharing and reusing creative works.
I am thankful for all I’ve learned from Wikipedia over the years and to the open copyright licenses from Creative Commons.
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I love books.
I’ve always loved books. I still have my children’s dictionary from when I was in first grade.
As well as dozens of paperbacks I read when I was in high school and college.
I would spend hours at the public library. In college, I worked at the university library as well as the public library.
When I volunteered at our public schools, I naturally found my way to volunteer at the school library. Continue reading Love Books? Consider Alternatives to Amazon
Looking at my notes over the past few years, fall seems to be the time of year I start planning changes to this website.
Maybe it’s all those beautiful fall colors in the northern hemisphere that reminds me of changes and motivates me to update my website?
Anyway, in my efforts to streamline the website and prepare for migrating it from WordPress (more about that plan in another post), I’ve made some website changes and will remove one feature that may impact readers of this website.
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