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02 August 2006
Open Geodata Made Easy
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If you've ever wondered what open geodata is and what it has to do with the other opens, try this introduction to the field. Along the...
01 August 2006
Foxed by Foxmarks
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Mitch Kapor, he of software archaeology fame, has started a project called Foxmarks . According to the FAQ : Foxmarks is an extension for ...
Bio::Blogs #2...
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...is now online . Not that I'm represented there or anything, oh my word, no. Well, only a bit. You might want to visit it anyway, s...
The Quiet Revolution
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One of the extraordinary things about Firefox is that its impact just keeps growing: the 200 million download mark has now been passed. Of...
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It's the Metric, Stupid
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A great post by Stephen O'Grady pondering the likelihood or otherwise of billion-dollar open source companies appearing anytime soon. ...
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Lies, Damned Lies and Baltimore Sun Op-Eds
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This op-ed on net neutrality in the Baltimore Sun is extraordinary: The "neutral" proposal that companies like Google are touti...
We Are All Great Communicators Now
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Tom Foremski has a thought-provoking post about the Internet's disruptive effects. More specifically, he asks: Where are they? His an...
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The Politics of Knowledge and the Online Republic
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Digital Universe 's Larry Sanger has posted another of his thoughtful essays , this time on the central issue of the "politics of k...
31 July 2006
A Noteworthy Addition: Lotus Notes for GNU/Linux
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For some , the words "Lotus Notes" are enough to strike fear into the heart. But for younger readers, that resonance is probably ...
UK PubMed Central: Good News, Bad News?
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The US PubMed Central service has become one of the cornerstones of biomedical research, and a major milestone on the way towards full open...
Moguls of New Media, Moguls of Old Media
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The Wall Street Journal has a nice piece about what it calls the "moguls of new media": As videos, blogs and Web pages created b...
CNN's Citizen Media is the Message
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The news that CNN is now soliciting user-generated stories and content - rather as the BBC has been doing for a while - is important not s...
Brazil: Next to Go Nuts for ODF?
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Judging by this article , Brazil's federal government may well be the next to adopt ODF as its official standard. As the news item note...
Gold Digg-ing
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The news that someone is offering their Digg profile on eBay is hardly a surprise in these days when people will try to sell anything there...
30 July 2006
Microsoft Patents Free Software
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OK, so it's the idea of free computing that Microsoft is trying to patent , rather than just free software. It's still doubly stupi...
Open Source, At Your Service
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So far, the best answer to How can open source companies make money? seems to be that of providing services - typically training, support a...
Going the Extremadura Mile
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Many in the world of free software are aware that the Spanish region of Extremadura has been installing GNU/Linux in its schools. It has ev...
29 July 2006
Microsoft: Yes, We're Really Scared
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It is a truism that if you believe in your product you welcome comparisons with the competition. After all, if you really are the best, you...
Time to Get Political: Top Down, Bottom Up
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A couple of weeks back I wrote a piece for Linux Journal suggesting that top coders might start using some of their increasing influence o...
Open Source Evo-Devo
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In the early days of free software in business - say ten years ago - there was a natural tendency to think of it as a monolithic entity. Bu...
28 July 2006
Of Metaweblogs and Pigritude
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So Federated Media (John Battelle's new gig) has "launched a parenting “metaweblog” (at www.federatedmedia.net/parenting ) that hi...
Aptana: Apt for Success?
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The line-up of cross-platform open source apps is pretty impressive, except in one area: Web design. Until now, all we've really had is...
The Blue Frog Takes the King's Shilling
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I've an article over on Linux Journal that looks at dual licensing. The issue of how you might make money out of open source software...
The French Disease
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For a nation of rationalists, France's DADVSI law is a seriously irrational piece of legislation that guts not just fair use, but compr...
Dopey DOPA
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This story about US legislation that will require schools to block MySpace and other social networking sites might not seem to have much to...
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