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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: ficlets</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/ficlets.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2009-01-14T22:02:42+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>ficlets memorial</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/14/ficlets/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2009-01-14T22:02:42+00:00</published><updated>2009-01-14T22:02:42+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/14/ficlets/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://ficlets.ficly.com/"&gt;ficlets memorial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Here’s a great argument for Creative Commons—AOL shut down Ficlets without providing an archive or export tool, but the license meant Ficlets co-creator Kevin Lawver could scrape and preserve all of the content anyway.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol"&gt;aol&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/archive"&gt;archive&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/creativecommons"&gt;creativecommons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data"&gt;data&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ficlets"&gt;ficlets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/kevin-lawver"&gt;kevin-lawver&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/preservation"&gt;preservation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



</summary><category term="aol"/><category term="archive"/><category term="creativecommons"/><category term="data"/><category term="ficlets"/><category term="kevin-lawver"/><category term="preservation"/></entry><entry><title>Ficlets</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/10/ficlets/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-03-10T17:41:08+00:00</published><updated>2007-03-10T17:41:08+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/10/ficlets/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://ficlets.com/"&gt;Ficlets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
AOL’s first application to launch on Rails, and their first application to accept OpenIDs as well as AOL screen names.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://lawver.net/archive/2007/03/07/h19_hello_ficlets.php"&gt;Kevin Lawver&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aol"&gt;aol&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ficlets"&gt;ficlets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openid"&gt;openid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/openidconsumer"&gt;openidconsumer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/rails"&gt;rails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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