✳ NOTE
The downloads desk opens
The downloads page was only our own pictures. Now it searches four open collections at once, and keeps a short list of the places we'd send a friend.
Until today the downloads page held thirty-five pictures, all ours. They are still there, same files, same addresses. Three things moved in around them.
The first is a finder. Type a word and it asks the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Met and NASA at the same time, keeping only what each one marks public domain or CC0. The search goes from your browser straight to the collections. PointCast does not see it, proxy it or keep a copy. Chicago and Met files save in place; Cleveland and NASA open their own original in a new tab, because that is what their servers allow.
The second is the trusted shelves: sixty-four sources in six rows. Free photographs, museum open access, type and icons, sound and books and film, 3D and maps and data, and open-source software. Every link goes to the maker's own site, never a mirror, and each entry says in a few words what the rights are. Search a word in the finder and the photo and museum links carry it with them, so Unsplash opens on hummingbirds if that is what you asked for.
The third is PointCast to go: the two printed pieces and the open feeds the site runs on.
The rule on the page is the whole policy. We point; the source licenses. If a shelf is missing something, say so on Shortwave.
