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If you’re uploading your images to Flickr or Facebook you may want to check your copyright information… Jonathon Bailey noticed they’re stripping your copyright information out. Apparently on purpose. This could leave your work open to become orphaned works in the future. Maybe we’ve all made a big mistake trusting these companies with our stuff.

Jonathon Bailey at PlagiarismToday writes that plagiarism detector software Copyscape placed first in a recent comparative test of it’s peers.

Luke Wroblewski discusses common visual design misconceptions like design is about being pretty and making things pop improves the design. He did a podcast with Jared Spool in July 2008 on the subject which you should check out, too. Design is bigger than pretty pictures - does it work, how easily and how effectively? Aesthetics plays a part but it’s not the whole game.

A tutorial on Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress using add_meta_box as an alternative to using Custom Fields for adding thumbnails.

The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today against business method patents such as a way to smooth energy costs (or for that matter Amazon’s 1 Click). Or at least the ruling makes the definition where such a patent is allowed very narrow. Funnily, Americans are called Yankees because that meant they were pirates. Yep it was a policy to ignore international patents and only recognise their own and it grew a strong and vibrant culture. Nowdays America seems to be patent frenzied and copyright obsessed. Thriving cultures and societies aren’t brought about by locking down your citizens. This is a good sign that at least someone in authority is asking WTF? Three cheers. (via TechCrunch)

Jared Spool has written Failure is Not an Option - It’s a Requirement discussing the vital need to fail if you’re going to innovate or improve your game. And it’s no secret that organisations that support, even applaud, failure in their employees are usually more successful. The article has a list of 8 common mistakes that lead to failure.

I wrote my own response article to this on StevenClark.com.au titled Our Corporate Culture Should Support Failure which discusses the 3M company and how it moved from mining to inventing everything from masking tape and post it notes to high tech electronics.

The Uncertain Future of Free Expression from Aram Sinnreich and Masha Zager explores the way our digital information is so easily read, monitored and controlled. Is anyone coming by to open your slowmail? But most of us just accept this and don’t ask the questionos - like where is this going?

Seth Godin’s talk titled Sliced bread and other marketing delights at last year’s TED: ideas worth spreading conference is a must see for anyone who hasn’t read anything about the new marketing paradigm.

Seventeen minutes of your life may just help your business become remarkable.