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24 April 2006
It's Blogging - But Not As We Know It
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A few weeks ago I interviewed Michael Hart , founder of Project Gutenberg . As I wrote in the article that resulted, there are close simil...
23 April 2006
It Can't Get Any Worse - Or Can It?
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You may think that the US DMCA is bad enough, since it "criminalizes production and dissemination of technology that can circumvent me...
22 April 2006
Access to Knowledge - or Not...
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I came across the Access to Knowledge conference, which is currently running at Yale under the aegis of the Information Society Project . ...
21 April 2006
Shopping Made Delicious
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Well, it had to happen. After all the innocent tagging fun at bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, somebody has now come up with a vulgar co...
The Unadmirable MirĂ³ Family
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As you probably noticed, Google put up one of its snazzy logos yesterday, in homage to the Catalan artist Joan MirĂ³ . Molt ben , you might ...
Music to My Ears
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There's a fascinating story over on BBC News, nominally about Madonna, but really about a new commons. It reports on how concerts are ...
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20 April 2006
Closing Ranks
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Talking of Microsoft, I see that my old chums at Reed Elsevier (disclosure: I used to work there a long, long time ago) are cosying up to ...
Signs of Eclipse
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Microsoft never gives ought for nought. Few remember that originally you had to pay for Internet Explorer, which formed part of something c...
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Measuring the Commons
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The commons is clearly important, but it's hard to get a handle on just how big it is these days. So the release of some figures from ...
Paying the Price for Free Software
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Sometimes, I think they do this kind of thing on purpose, just to annoy me. Somebody writes some free software ; somebody later "patent...
19 April 2006
The Euston Manifesto
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After the right espousing open source and related open goodness yesterday, today we have the left. More specifically, we have something ca...
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Amazon Plays Tag, Blog and Wiki
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For all its patent faults, Amazon.com is one of my favourite sites. It has repeatedly done the right thing when mistakes have been made wit...
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Bloggers Do It Openly
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So bloggers do matter after all, according to this Guardian piece . That there exist groups of people who wield a power disproportionate ...
18 April 2006
Their Words, Not Mine
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Since this whole blog is predicated on the commonality that exists between open source, open genomics, open access, open content, and open b...
Lear's Fool, Mac OS X, Windows and Open Source
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Misled by his intentionally-provocative columns , people tend to treat John Dvorak as some kind of industry buffoon. But as his biography ...
17 April 2006
Does Larry's Linux Stack Up?
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The tantalising story in the FT that Oracle is ruminating upon acquiring one of the main GNU/Linux distributions - well, Novell - is bound...
The Open Research Web
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Aside from the strong moral arguments for open access - based on the fact that much of the research published in journals has been paid for ...
16 April 2006
Open Access Books Are Like Buses...
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...you wait for ages, and then three turn up at once. Well, two at least: I wrote recently about Willinsky's The Access Principle , and...
14 April 2006
"The Access Principle" Made Accessible
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One of the jibes that the anti-open access lot like to lob is that many of those writing in favour of these ideas often do so in non-open ac...
End of the World Nigh: VCs Clueful on Patents
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And now for some good news about patents - no really. Judging by this article on the excellent Techdirt , a few of the brighter VCs are s...
13 April 2006
Right-minded Right to Create
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As you may have noticed, some of the more outrageous abuses of the patent system tend to make me go a funny colour. So I was interested t...
12 April 2006
PageRank on a Stick
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Googlejuice: everybody wants it. It's measured in that mysterious coinage of the cyber-realm known as PageRank , and everybody wants to...
Windows Live Academic Search Goes Live
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Microsoft has rolled out the first beta of its academic search engine . It has some nice Web 2.0-y features that make it look far cooler th...
What a Tangled Bank We Weave
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If you've not come across the Tangled Bank miscellanies, take a look at the latest one , hosted on the fine Discovering Biology in a Di...
11 April 2006
From Blogroll to Searchroll
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I confess it: I'm a sucker for analogical thought. So taking the idea of a blogroll - even if I don't actually use the things - an...
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