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10 April 2006
Webaroo - Yawnaroo
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Convincing proof that Web 2.0 is a replay of Web 1.0 comes in the form of Webaroo. As this piece from Om Malik explains, this start-up aim...
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Open Peer Review
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Open access does not aim to subvert the peer review process that lies at the heart of academic publishing: it just wants to open things up...
09 April 2006
(Patently) Right
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Paul Graham is a master stylist - indeed, one of the best writers on technology around. Reading his latest essay, " Are Software Paten...
08 April 2006
Death to the Podcast
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"Podcast" is such a cool word. It manages to be familiar, made up as it is of the odd little "pod" and suffix "-ca...
07 April 2006
Another Day, Another Open
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Open content is an area that I follow quite closely. I've just finished the second of a series of articles for LWN.net that traces the ...
A Nod's as Good as a Wink
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As I mentioned , I have started playing with Google Analytics for this blog. It's early days yet, but already some fascinating results ...
UNDPAPDIPIOSN - A Name to Remember?
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The UN is such a huge, amorphous organisation that it is no suprise that there are bits of it that rarely make it into the limelight. A cas...
06 April 2006
Microsoft's Open Source Blog
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Not something you see every day: a Web site called Port 25, with the explanatory line "Communications from the Open Source Software Lab...
The Commons Becomes Commoner
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I've already written about how the "commons" meme is on the rise, with all that this implies in terms of co-operation, sharin...
ODF Petition Hits 10,000
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I'm a big fan of the OpenDocument Fellowship - there's something very Tolkienian about it, and it's one of the best places to k...
Why VOIP Needs Crypto
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The ever-wise Bruce Schneier (whom I had the pleasure of interviewing a couple of years ago) spells out in words of one syllable why the h...
In Praise of Nakedness
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The impudence of Microsoft knows no bounds. According to this report in ZDNet UK, it is now doing the nudge-nudge, wink-wink to PC dealers...
05 April 2006
After Wikia, Qwika: the Wiki Search Engine
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The last time I wrote about Qwika , it seemed to be a solution in search of a problem. A recent press release suggests that it's mana...
Blender - Star of the First Open Source Film
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Blender is one of the jewels in the open source crown. As its home page puts it: Blender is the open source software for 3D modeling, anim...
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United States of Patent Absurdity
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If you ever wondered how the US got into such a mess with patents on software and business methods - and wondered how the European Union can...
Daily Me 2.0
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One of the problems with blogs for advertisers is their fragmented nature: to get a reach comparable to mainstream media generally involves ...
Privacy Policy
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As part of my exploration of Google, I've signed up for Google Analytics . This means that these pages now collect some anonymous traff...
04 April 2006
Exploring the Digital Universe
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The Digital Universe - a kind of "When Larry ( Sanger ) left Jimmy ( Wales )" story - remains a somewhat nebulous entity. In som...
Coughing Genomic Ink
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One of the favourite games of scholars working on ancient texts that have come down to us from multiple sources is to create a family tree o...
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Ozymandias in Blogland
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A fascinating post on Beebo (via C|net ): a list of the top 50 blogs, six years ago. It's interesting to see some familiar names at th...
03 April 2006
To DRM or Not to DRM - That is the Question
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Digital Rights Management - or Digital Restrictions Management as Richard Stallman likes to call it - is a hot topic at the moment. It figu...
The Birth of Emblogging
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I've written before about the blogification of the cyber union - how everything is adopting a blog-like format. Now comes a complementa...
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02 April 2006
Wiki Wiki Wikia
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Following one of my random wanders through the blogosphere I alighted recently on netbib . As the site's home page explains , this is b...
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01 April 2006
Open Access Opens the Throttle
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It's striking that, so far, open access has had a relatively difficult time making the breakthrough into the mainstream - despite the hi...
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When Blogs Are Beyond a Joke
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As any fule kno , today is April Fool's Day. It has long been a tradition among publications - even, or perhaps especially, the most st...
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