[okfn-discuss] Promoting the Public Domain Review?

Mon Feb 28 21:45:33 UTC 2011

I found the name misleading, and until I loaded the page assumed it had to
do with reviewing *options* for making works public domain, and thus had not
visited the site till now.

Now i see it's not that, and it's also really neat!

IMHO I would change the name: "The chronicle of public domain"? "Public
domain chronicle "?
"Chronicle of public works"?

Also, if the goal is to demonstrate the value of works being public domain,
then in addition to commentary (which is available on plenty of non-PD work)
it would be great to have a remix section each week for derivative works.

-- Sent from my phone
On Feb 28, 2011 3:53 PM, "Jonathan Gray" <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> As you may have seen, the Public Domain Review has now been going at a
> fairly regular pace since its launch at the start of this year:
>
> http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/
>
http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/2011/02/22/lewis-carroll-and-the-hunting-of-the-snark/
>
http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/2011/02/14/the-snowflake-man-of-vermont/
> http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/2011/02/08/tales-from-tahiti/
>
http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/2011/01/31/christopher-smarts-jubilate-agno/
>
http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/2011/01/24/ernst-haeckel-and-the-unity-of-culture/
>
http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/2011/01/12/emma-goldmans-anarchism-without-adjectives/
>
http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/2011/01/01/in-hollywood-with-nathanael-west/
>
> We have around 80 people signed up to receive email updates [1],
> around 40 followers on Twitter [2], and nearly 60 on Facebook [3].
>
> We're currently thinking very hard about how to do a big push on
> promoting the Review to new audiences. We really want to reach a more
> general public (e.g. people might normally read other periodicals like
> the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Review of Books, the
> London Review of Books and so on).
>
> Any cunning ideas? ;-)
>
> [1] http://publicdomainreview.okfn.org/free-subscription/
> [2] http://twitter.com/#!/publicdomainrev
> [3] http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Public-Domain-Review/140605529334002
>
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>
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