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25 January 2012
Subscribe To A Newsapaper, Get An E-reader Free
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Well, this was bound to happen. Barnes & Noble is offering big discounts on its Nook e-readers to people taking out subscriptions to ...
05 January 2012
If Libraries Didn't Exist, Would Publishers Be Trying To Kill Book Lending?
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Against the background of today's war on sharing, exemplified by SOPA and PIPA, traditional libraries underline an inconvenient truth:...
06 August 2009
Rupert's Roller-Coaster
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It's hard keeping up with Rupert Murdoch's fortunes on the Internet. First, he blew it: he ignored the Net, declaring it of no inter...
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05 April 2008
Nice One, NYT
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I'd not noticed this feature in the New York Times before: To find reference information about the words used in this article, double-c...
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09 March 2008
Vista's Geek Tragedy
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Nice framing of the train-wreck that is Microsoft Vista by Randall Stross in the NYT: Act 1: In 2005, Microsoft plans to say that only PCs...
06 January 2008
Open Hardware: Soon to be Boring
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The New York Times has a feature on the Neuros OSD (for open source device): The Neuros OSD connects to your TV or home theater system an...
20 November 2007
Larry Sanger's Question
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Larry Sanger has a question about Citizendium: Suppose we grow to Wikipedian size. This is possible, however probable you think it might be...
18 September 2007
New York Times Sees the Light and Opens Up
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The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night. The move comes two years to ...
29 August 2007
In Cloud Cuckoo Land
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John Markoff's hard disc died ; he tried doing without it: What I discovered was that - with the caveat of a necessary network connectio...
16 August 2007
The Triumph of Free (as in Beer)
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With The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal said to be looking at removing the “pay wall” around their online content, and others – ...
08 February 2007
Of Continuous Improvement and Open Source
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Hal Varian is one of the wisest - and oldest - commentators on Internet economics. he has a nice piece in the New York Times that looks a...
29 January 2007
Acceptable Intellectual Property
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Although open genomics is one of the key areas of this blog, posts on the subject are few and far between. This is really a reflection of t...
14 January 2007
iPhone = Crippleware
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Quite .
30 August 2006
Open Source Audio Books
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A nice piece in the New York Times about audio books based on public domain titles. Two points are worth noting. One is the following co...
18 July 2006
The Personal Genome Part 265
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Here 's Nick Wade reviewing candidate technologies for the sub-$1000 genome. It's coming , people.
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04 July 2006
Fine Microsoft? Fine: But It's Pointless
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According to The New York Times , the EU is about to thump Microsoft to the tune of a couple of million a day. I say: quite right, too. A...
29 April 2006
Tridge and Bill
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An interesting story in The New York Times about the courtroom battle between the EU and Microsoft. It makes beautifully clear how one hu...
24 April 2006
Wikis, Wikis, Everywhere...
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...Nor any stop to think. The New York Times reports on the rash of wikis that are appearing on e-commerce sites. I've already mentio...
01 February 2006
Spreading Spread Firefox
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Most computer users by now have heard of the Firefox browser. This is hardly surprising given the extraordinary rate at which it is still ...
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30 January 2006
Open Access and Earwax
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Nicholas Wade in the New York Times has an interesting article about earwax. It seems that there are two types, wet and dry: The wet form...
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