{"id":1129,"date":"2006-12-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?e=1129"},"modified":"2006-12-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","slug":"how-free-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/how-free-is-free\/","title":{"rendered":"how free is free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Listening to the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/booruch.libsyn.com\/\">Booruch<\/a>, which was a chat between David and <a href=\"http:\/\/geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk\/\">geeky pete<\/a> and watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonesieboy.co.uk\/blog\">Robert<\/a> in action over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotedublogs.org.uk:3237\/\">ScotEduBlogs news<\/a> has brought open-source very much to the forefront of my mind.<br  \/>I&#8217;ve also noticed a couple of good posts on why using free services that are not open-source might not be a good ideas: the developers might pull the rug from under you at any time. Unfortunately I&#8217;ve lost those references but found this example: <a href=\"http:\/\/radar.oreilly.com\/archives\/2006\/12\/google_depreciates_SOAP_API.html\">O&#8217;Reilly Radar > Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API<\/a>.<br  \/>In a <strong>practical<\/strong> rather than <em>ideal<\/em> way these problems might be solved by some sort of national edu storage space. This would also solve the problem of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/\">flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bubbleshare.com\/\">bubbleshare<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">youtube<\/a> being blocked by some authorities. I know the social aspect of these sites are very important, but as far as I can see most pupil\/student blogs are mainly using these sites for file storage and to simplify displaying multimedia on their blogs.<br  \/>as I see it, it would be simple enough to provide a basic server service that would allow the upload and linkage to files. a wee bit more effort could provide a video player (in the google\/youtube style), flash mp3 player and slide show tools. The only problem in doing this would be the cost of the bandwidth, I guess that would be nothing to a nation, anyone know?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ttags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/scotedublogs\/\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">scotedublogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to the latest Booruch, which was a chat between David and geeky pete and watching Robert in action over at ScotEduBlogs news has brought open-source very much to the forefront of my mind.I&#8217;ve also noticed a couple of good posts on why using free services that are not open-source might not be a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"post_format":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1129","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wwwd","7":"kind-","8":"h-entry","9":"hentry"},"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57zFQ-id","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=1129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}