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One of the defining characteristics of the digital world -- and one of the problems for copyright law, which was conceived in an analog ag...

One of the reasons I am so excited by Spotify is that it is asymptotically approaching an online library of All Music. Even in its necessar...

I always said Brazil was a civilised country: O MinC proporá que a cópia privada de qualquer tipo de obra digital seja permitida sem a auto...

As somebody who is not wont to restrain himself when the UK government gets it hideously wrong on the IT front (hello, ID cards), it behoves...

I wrote recently about the wonderful WikipediaVision : be warned, if you thought that was good, you'll love Flickrvision too - and hav...

"Mix and mash" lies at the heart of the power of openness: it allows people to come up with new, often better, uses of data, notab...

Here's an important study , called The Power of Information , that is actually all about the power of *open* information: This is an unu...

Open Cities Toronto 2007 is a weekend-long web of conversation and celebration that asks: how do we collaboratively add more open to the urb...

One of the most important innovations of the Web 2.0 era has been the mashup. As I've noted before, mashups really need underlying mesh...

How could I not love this totally pointless site ? Actually, come to think of it, I'm sure it'll feed into some interesting mashups...

And talking of Google Earth mashups, here's a fascinating list of speculations about what might be coming or, at least, possible.

As I've mentioned before , mashups are all about the underlying mesh. And what better mesh for knowledge than Google Earth? And what b...

This is getting seriously weird. DestroyTV lets RLers watch an island in SL, using an embedded video camera (which is "in" both S...

I've noted before how mashups depend upon the existence of some kind of mesh ; typically this is geographical (which is why so many mash...

Great story in Nature about data mashups - the mixing together of data drawn from disparate sources to create a sum greater than the parts....