The Morning Reboot:
- In a move that I find downright shocking, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has announced that it is putting Microsoft's Open XML format — used for Office 2007 documents — on the fast track to become a full ISO standard. Of course having OOXML on the fast track does not mean it will be accepted, that is still up to the voting countries come ballet time.
- Today is the last day for old school Flickr users to switch over to a Yahoo account and to make things perhaps a bit less painful, Flickr announced a new feature yesterday called “collection.” Collections are essentially another top level organization tool that allows you to make sets of sets. Collections are available to Flickr Pro users only.
- Google is reversing its long standing policy of storing user search data indefinitely. Our own Ryan Singel has an in depth look at what the decision means over at 27B Stroke 6: “by the end of the year [Google] will begin removing identifying data from its search logs after 18 months to two years, depending on the country the servers are located in.”
- Interesting copyright news: author Jonathan Lethem has announced he will give away the film option rights for his new novel (taking payment in royalties) so long as the filmmaker agrees to release all the materials and rights into the public domain after five years. It seems to me that this is exactly what it will take to raise the level of dialogue about copyright — for the public to see actual authors/musicians/artist embrace alternative structures. Kudos to Lethem.
