Use a pull quote

Adam Polselli's unique blockquote style for showing code labels it as such (scroll down to see)

Adrian Holovaty's blockquote style for showing code highlights it & changes the font

Put quote marks around your blockquote content

Use a different font in your blockquote

Jay McCarthy puts a dotted line around his blockquotes

UPDATE: Well, that was pretty easy... [Weblogg-ed News]

12:36:16 PM    

I was glad that datacloud linked to Synthopia's overview of the new Creative Commons Sampling Licenses which enable artists to make and redistribute derivative works of a copyrighted item, but not to redistribute the original. I hadn't had a chance to think about them yet, and now it seems to me that this license adds some important diversity to the CC license range of rights. As I see it, there are three main ways in which a CC license can work for the public commons:

1. By expanding access to texts through allowing others to copy and redistribute.
2. Providing opportunities for creative development by allowing derivative works.
3. Guaranteeing that a work will benefit the public commons in perpetuity by requiring that others share alike in all derivative works.

Previously, CC licenses allowed users to choose either 1 or 1, 2 & 3 together (copyleft), but not 2. Adding the sampling licenses thus recognizes the importance of derivative works alone as an option; indeed, 2 alone is as of equal importance to combatting the enclosure of the public commons as is 1 by itself.

Still, copyleft is best :)

12:33:45 PM    

University of BC Projects.

I should invite some of these folks to write for The Journal. Good projects.

E-Learning Open House. Should have pointed to this earlier... The latest issue of our e-Strategy Newsletter has a set of summaries of a number of ongoing elearning projects... Celebrating e-Learning at UBC: Highlights from the e-Strategy Open House and e-Learning Salon. The projects described include: An e-Lifeline: Software Self-Help Web site for Students Collaborative Writing Models for Laboratory Reporting Electronic Teaching Portfolios at... [Michelle's Online Learning Freakout Party Zone]

11:54:39 AM