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Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by john_loch, Jun 9, 2004.

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    Here's a little something I dug up while looking for minable content. There's nothing like info in the public domain to entertain your audience, and give your site that extra substance.

    This is a link to a public domain question on Google Answers. The respondant did an excellent job, providing links to a wide variety of public domain data.

    Enjoy :)
     
    john_loch, Jun 9, 2004 IP
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    vinyl Well-Known Member

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    indeed, can be interesting to check those sites and see what they offer for free.
     
    vinyl, Jun 9, 2004 IP
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    Besides "static" public-domain data, there are numerous sources of timely data that are in the public domain. The U.S. weather service, for example, provides freely available data; the U.S. postal service does too, though there are sometimes conditions with them; and the IMF provides daily currency rates. (I have used two of those resources, weather and IMF data, to make free drop-in toys that can give web pages ever-changing content with no webmaster effort.)

    There is, of course, nothing that is "free". But this sort of data is something we have all already paid for in one way or another. We ought to be making good use of it.
     
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    younghistorians Well-Known Member

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    go Wikipedia! :)
     
    younghistorians, Jun 9, 2004 IP
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    Nice post John, some really useful content in there for some people Im sure.
     
    schlottke, Jun 9, 2004 IP
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    john_loch Rodent Slayer

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    For those of you into books, and in particular, public domain ebooks that you can use/package as desired free of charge - not to mention a daily feed of new public domain ebooks (do I smell a new toy ?), you can visit Project Gutenberg here

    :)
     
    john_loch, Jun 10, 2004 IP
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    Thanks for sharing the links with us. This info is very useful. I am going to put up some of the content on my sites.
     
    eCommando, Jun 10, 2004 IP
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    yep, wikipedia is an absolutely wonderful source. absolutely suggest checking it out, although it may not work perfectly for all sites.
     
    disgust, Jun 10, 2004 IP
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    younghistorians Well-Known Member

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    Only thing about it though is that it's constantly being changed-so your content won't be static if you use some type of feed. Another downside would be that the information is not verified.

    However, I still love it.
     
    younghistorians, Jun 10, 2004 IP
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    Another great source of free content is press releases. I use them all the time for news on my sites.
     
    al2six, Jun 15, 2004 IP
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    How long before something becomes public domain content, 50 years or more?
     
    kaloss, Jan 6, 2008 IP
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    probably a long long time
     
    FreelancerStore, Jan 6, 2008 IP
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    That's interesting, I wonder what other items that are more updated are public domain
     
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    wow.. amazing.. I really like it.. I never knew this before..
     
    samsmith9, Sep 19, 2011 IP