If you aspire to create culture today, in the year 2010, you can not escape the vastness of it all—the sheer quantity of stuff that is being produced, and the sheer quantity of stuff that is being for gotten. In a world like this, Creative Commons is not just a license—not just a passive agreement with some theoretical public. Instead, I think it’s an active, urgent signal to a posse of potential allies.~ Active and urgent > Robin Sloan