Welcome to the Intelligent Designs blog. In this blog, I will try to highlight ideas and essays which I find interesting. Some will be small, some will be big. Some will be my own, and some will be those of others. Some ideas will be years from implementation, while some will already exist in some form. Generally, however, I want to highlight that which does not yet exist yet. At least at first, most ideas will be from the area of computer applications and social networks.
The blog is intimately tied to the wiki, where we can try to develop ideas together which I post about on the frontpage. Currently, this blog is a one man show, but I hope that it can grow into a more collaborative project over time. I do not promise daily updates, but I do hope that the updates that will come will be worth reading and original. If you want to follow this blog, I suggest using an aggregator application or sevice and importing the RSS feed.
Why did I start the blog and wiki? Primarily because I want to have a place where I can quickly scribble down ideas, announce them, and give others a chance to develop them further. Whether this is useful or not remains to be seen.
Beyond ideas, there will be occasional in-depth analysises of specific topics. The first page that was published on the wiki is the article [[Licenses/NC|”The Case for Free Use: Reasons Not to Use a Creative Commons -NC License”]]. This article, which now exists in English, Spanish, and German, has received much discussion, and I am pleased with how it has evolved. Analysis like this can, I believe, greatly aid in the formulation of new ideas. (In this case, I hope that we will eventually arrive at a clearer definition of the term free content.)
Enjoy your stay, and for now, when you want to contact me, use that old-fashioned method of sending me an e-mail: moeller AT scireview DOT de.
Peace,
Erik Möller