Thanks for your comment (and great pictures – I love the Hawaii lava flows).

The creative commons license is very interesting. I can see the need if you want to reserve some rights, like the right to be attributed as the author, but if you are simply saying, as I am, that all the text and copyright is in the “public domain” then what’s the point of the license?

Thanks again.
Kieran

One of the more popular copyright resources is the creative commons initiative: http://creativecommons.org/

I’ve seen it used quite effectively on http://www.Flickr.org (another great resource for publishing geo-tagged photo’s…

Cheers.

Undoubtedly an etiquette about sharing will develop over time but it has not done so yet. The power of the Internet is in disseminating ideas and often doing so quickly. All of us benefit from this. No one site can reach the number of readers that multiple linked sites can.

In the past you have used material from my site and appropriately acknowledged, referenced and linked back to my site. I have benefited from that and you have benefited from that and I hope our readers have benefitted, so please continue to do so, whenever you wish.

However, not everyone feels the same way, so Mark’s request, to ask in advance before using his images, is very reasonable.

By the way, congratulations in getting so high up in the wordpress rankings, top 100 no less. You can link to me anytime!!!