A massive hoo-ray-hoo-ha! to desz goh who is currently riding it large at the top of the mad-den topsites chart. That's first place against over 50 other blogs.

Well done.

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Greetings beautiful readers. Once more I am feeling fine and oomphy (thanks for the gift [you know who you are]). I am once more here with one of those tid-bits of "insight".

The idea that I would like to introduce to you is something called Copyleft.

No I'm not being funny it's a diametric opposite to the idea of copyright. Plus it's a great play on words.

With copyleft the idea is you pass the right to use the copylefted item on to the person that obtains the item (unlike with, say, copyright music where it would be illegal to copy it).

Much of the idea started in the hacking and coding arena where coders found that they'd like to share their work without having it become part of some proprietary software package. So the copyleft condition is you must pass the same freedom on to anyone else you share the copylefted item with, or a derivative thereof.

One of the things to look for is the GNU foundations GPL (General Public License) which is considered the original copyleft code.

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Normally the beautiful talker likes to say things about other people. Nice, beautiful things - that's why I set up this blog.

It's not everyday that one gets to announce the launch of a directory service that one has coded from scratch over the past two and half years.

Beautiful readers I give you: GloballyLocal.com.

It is my hope to add "suggest new company" and set to live the ebay like comment system in the next few months. I honestly hope this will be worthy of the limited company and the £3500+ ($about $7000) dedicated to it's success. My aim is that this should pay for not only itself, my wages and those of a few others but it should cover the costs of all the free stuff I do. It's a big job and I'm glad to see it get this far.

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