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07 May 2006
Cluelessness in the Echo Chamber
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I've already dealt with the daft idea of open source being " acquired en masse " elsewhere . I'm just surprised that it t...
06 May 2006
O Happy, Happy Digital Code
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My book Digital Code of Life was partly about the battle to keep genomic and other bioinformatics information open. So it's good to se...
A Rough Cut of the Beta Book Idea
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Books are lovely objects, but problematic in terms of their content - once they're published, you can't correct the errors easily. ...
Get the Facts: Open Access in India
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Richard Poynder offers an interesting interview with Professor Subbiah Arunachalam on open access in India, conducted with his customary th...
The Law According to Wikocracy
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We've had Openlaw , where anyone can contribute information to the crafting of a legal argument; now we've got Wikocracy , where any...
After Open Access
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A truly fascinating piece by Clifford Lynch explores what might be possible once we have total open access to scholarly writings, and can a...
05 May 2006
Curioser and Curioser
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" Leaks " (yeah, right) about another new Microsoft Live service: Windows Live QnA , going, er, live soon. What's curious is ...
The Meme is Spreading: Film at Eleven
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Another milestone in the march of the distributed meme: a film financed by a Net-based group of 50,000 angel micro-investors: the Swarm . T...
Music for Grown-Ups: Open, Collaborative Pricing
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Any fool can knock the music business for their short-sighted refusal to work with the Internet, rather than against it (heaven knows, I'...
04 May 2006
OpenStreetMap - Finding Our Way
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I wrote a little about the Guardian 's campaign to obtain open access to Government-generated data (which we pay for), but here's ...
E-commerce 2.0 Re-visited
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A little while back, when I was musing upon e-commerce 2.0, I mentioned Chinesepod.com . Now I've gone the whole hog, interviewing th...
Free Beer - No, Really
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Everybody talks about "free as in beer" versus "free as in freedom". Now somebody has taken this literally: free as in ...
03 May 2006
Get Legal - Get OpenOffice.org
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Ha!
Keeping DRM is a Win?
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Someone who has clearly had their brain frazzled by the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field . Not opening up DRM is a win ? Well, maybe f...
The Commons of Water
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Great meditation on water as a commons - and how we need to change the way companies are allowed to "graze" this commons for prof...
Open PR? - Whatever Next?
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Wandering around Technorati, I came across Novell's Open PR blog . Mere PR PR? Maybe not, since there are comments from real people -...
What is Open Knowledge?
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If you were wondering, then perhaps the Open Knowledge Foundation might be able to help. They have come up with an Open Knowledge Definiti...
The Nitty-Gritty of Net Neutrality
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Net neutrality - the idea that the underlying technologies of the Internet should never care or even know about the details of who you are o...
02 May 2006
Open Access: How Not to Be Clueful
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This paper , with the title "Open Access" and its Social Context: New Colonialism in the Making? has to take the biscuit for one ...
Will WIPO Wipe the Floor?
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This is how the world ends, not with a bang - not with a clash of titans - but with a whimper, in an obscure WIPO committee. The committee...
01 May 2006
Epson Joins the IP Bully Club
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Sad to see a once-great company joining the IP Bully Club, using dubious logic and bad law in an attempt to shut out competition. Hint: th...
The Commons: When Digital Meets Analogue
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Given the convergence of thinking about the digital and analogue commons that is taking place, the news that EarthTrends is releasing its o...
The Birth of Free Content
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The term "open content" is applied almost universally to materials that are freely available to varying degrees. Its origins der...
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad
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The thought-provoking Against Monopoly blog makes an interesting contrast : copyright bad, trademark good. Not quite sure where a copyrigh...
W(h)ither Sun?
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McNealy leaving Sun is certainly the end of an era. But the big question is: what follows? As far as Jonathan Schwartz is concerned, too m...
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