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Is it OK for a company to sell your Creative Commons work without your permission or compensation? That’s the question Flickr users are debating right now after a the launch of the company’s new print making service. For those unfamiliar, Creative Commons is an open-source framework for photographers, makers, artists, and more to define how their work may be used. The 4 basic variations of CC are: -attribution -noncommercial -no derivative works -share alike Flickr embraced CC licensing many years ago and now hosts over 300,000,000 CC-licensed images. Last month the company began a new printing service that allows customers […]

In the WordPress ecosystem, we find ourselves surrounded by a great community, full of helpful people and technology that keeps getting better and better each year. Whether you’ve just started preparing your Turducken, or you are part of 95.5% of the world that doesn’t do the whole Thanksgiving thing, we appreciate you stopping by today. With that in mind, there’s plenty of things for WordPressers to be grateful for this season, here’s our list: Client-friendly security updates that automatically install themselves. JJJ committing the next 6 months of his life to BuddyPress, bbPress & GlotPress. Matt Mullenweg being a really snappy dresser. Git integration. […]

The second-ever Prestige Conference — a conference focused solely around business and career development in the digital space — is scheduled for February 27-28, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This article discusses the thought process behind the laser-focused event and sheds light on future plans to offer even more new content and learning.  The inspiration. For Prestige’s Founders Josh Broton and Kiko Doran, the inspiration for the conference came after years of attending, organizing, and speaking at WordCamps. “Both Josh Broton and I have an extensive history with the event circuit, and one thing we heard over and over was that people within the […]

Food is one of the key requirements for our healthy existence, and ideally we just eat things that taste good and are good for us. We all have a different relationship with food owing to our cultural heritage, lifestyle, and belief systems around food, said Dr. Cathy Kapica, Certified Food Scientist and science communicator for the Institute for Food Technologists and CEO of The Awegrin Institute. Finding the right balance of foods should be a straightforward process, and there is no shortage of dietary, nutritional, and other advice to help us make better food choices. A number of diet and […]