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19 March 2006
How Do I Blog Thee?
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Let me count the ways. List blog The original: lots and lots of links to things with no theme but their sum. Diary blog The other original ...
18 March 2006
Economistical with the Truth
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The Economist is a strange beast. It has a unique writing style, born of the motto "simplify, then exaggerate"; and it has an un...
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17 March 2006
Google's Grief, Open Source's Gain?
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The news that a judge has ordered Google to turn over all emails from a Gmail account, including deleted messages, has predictably sent a s...
16 March 2006
The Power of Open Genomics
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The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has announced the latest round of meg...
15 March 2006
Microsoft Goes (a Bit More) Open Source
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Many people were amazed back in 2004 when Microsoft released its first open source software, Windows Installer XML (WiX). But this was onl...
E-commerce 2.0
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It is striking how everybody is talking about Web 2.0, and yet nobody seems to mention e-commerce 2.0. In part, this is probably because fe...
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14 March 2006
Will Data Hoarding Cost 150 Million Lives?
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The only thing separating mankind from a pandemic that could kill 150 million people are a few changes in the RNA of the H5N1 avian 'fl...
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13 March 2006
OU on UK ID DBs
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Talking of the Open University, here's an interesting research report from them on the UK Government's plans to introduce ID cards...
12 March 2006
Mozart the Blogger
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To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth, I've been reading some of his letters , described by Einstein ( Alfred , not ...
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11 March 2006
Open University Meets Open Courseware
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Great news (via Open Access News and the Guardian ): the Open University is turning a selection of its learning materials into open course...
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09 March 2006
RIAA Fights to the Death for DRM - Your Death
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The ever-perceptive Ed Felten has an amazing story about the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) and its friends-in-copyright fi...
Savonarola, St. Francis - or St. IGNUcius?
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There's a well-written commentary on C|Net that makes what looks like a neat historical parallel between Savonarola and Richard Stallm...
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The Dream of Open Data
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Today's Guardian has a fine piece by Charles Arthur and Michael Cross about making data paid for by the UK public freely accessible by...
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Enter the Splogfighter
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Talking of splogs , I came across (via SEO Data ) the valiant Splogfighter's Blogger-based anti-splog blog . All power to whatever part...
08 March 2006
Splog in a Box?
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far away - well, in California, about 1994 - O'Reilly came out with something called " Internet in a ...
07 March 2006
The Other Grid God: Open Source
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As I was browsing through Lxer.com , my eye caught this rather wonderful headline: "Grid god to head up Chicago computing institute&quo...
06 March 2006
Blogging Newspapers
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One of the interesting questions raised by the ascent of blogs is: What will the newspapers do? Even though traditional printed titles are ...
05 March 2006
Google Googlied by Spaiku Adages
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Today was a black day in the annals of my Gmail account: I received my first piece of spam. You might think I should be rejoicing that I...
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04 March 2006
The European Digital Library: Dream, but Don't Touch
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With all the brouhaha over the Google Book Search Library Project , it is easy to overlook other efforts directed along similar lines. I...
The Amazing Amazon Mechanical Turk
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OK, so I may be well behind the times, but I still found this rather amazing when I came across it. Not so much for what it is - a versio...
Digg This, It's Groovy
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Digg.com is a quintessentially Web 2.0 phenomenon: a by-the-people, for-the-people version of Slashdot (itself a keyWeb 1.0 site). So Dig...
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Tying the Kangaroo Down
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If any proof were needed that some people still don't really get the Internet, this article is surely it. Apparently Australia's c...
03 March 2006
Beyond Parallel Universes
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One of the themes of this blog is the commonality between the various opens. In a piece I wrote for the excellent online magazine LWN.net,...
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01 March 2006
There's No INSTEDD without Open Access
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An interesting story in eWeek.com. Larry Brilliant, newly-appointed head of the Google.org philanthropic foundation, wants to set up a d...
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Higgins: Social Web, Social Commerce
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Identity is a slippery thing at the best of times. On the Internet it's even worse (as the New Yorker cartoon famously encapsulated)....
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