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05 September 2006
Why ID Cards Are Idiotic: Technical Impossibility
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I hate to gloat (well, not much) but this story about the scrapping of a £141 million computer system by the UK's Department for Work a...
GNU GPL Punch-up in the Offing?
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One of the unusual things about the GNU GPL is that it uses traditional law to untraditional things. This means that there's plenty of ...
Warning: Tenuous Connection Follows
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Well, Linus is Finnish, and hails from Helsinki, and this story is about a Finn in the same fair city. OK, I confess, I choose it for the h...
04 September 2006
Skewering SpiralFrog
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I've avoided mentioning SpiralFrog until now, since it is such a blatant attempt to be hip in a Web 2.0-ish sort of way, while completel...
Rich Blogger, Poor Blogger
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There's a fun thread on Thomas Hawk's Digital Connections blog, where people are having a go at Blogger. And quite right too: it...
Open BIOSes
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BIOS: Basic Input/Output System. We rarely give it a thought as we boot up a machine. But it turns out that there's a lot of clutter i...
The Fat Belly...
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...and why we need it.
Eclipse - the Magazine
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I know, I know, magazines are so twentieth century. This one is different - it's a PDF magazine (OK, so that's worse). But at lea...
Grokking Wikipedia
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For a project that is beginning to assume an ever-greater importance in the intellectual landscape (to say nothing of the online landscape),...
Headliner: the First Web 2.0 Product
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Ah, yes, push : Remember the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft? Well forget it. The Web browser itself is about to croak. And good ...
Of Vietnamese Straws
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Lots of interesting trends here : The Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) has signed an agreement with chip giant Intel to bolster the country&...
On the Marc
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This isn't exactly hot news, and it's been blogged elsewhere , but I don't feel a blog called "open..." would be compl...
The Language of the Commons
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Although we may have a general idea of what a commons is - not least the kind we stroll on - it's a difficult concept to pin down. So t...
Wiki, Wiki, Wonga
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The New York Times has a piece about for-profit wikis. Personally, I can't see this happening much, since the essence of wikis is the...
Open Source, Open Seeds
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A nice report on a "knowledge symposium" in New Delhi, organised by Red Hat India. It touched on not only free software, but als...
03 September 2006
Happy Birthday
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No, I don't mean this one, (which should really have been this one), but this one. (Via Tuxmachines.org .)
02 September 2006
Lipstick on a Pig
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I felt it in my bones. Everyone - even the normally sensible BBC - was running around waving their hands about the amazing Browzar. As the...
OpenID and Password Overload
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Do you have too many passwords to remember? If you don't, that probably means you're using the same one or two for every site - not...
01 September 2006
Under the Blogger Beta Bonnet
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I mentioned a couple of weeks back that this blog is now running on the new Blogger Beta (with all the downsides that this implies). It tu...
Microsoft Can Go Conjugate Itself
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I do not believe it Thou dost not believe it He does not believe it She does not believe it We do not believe it Ye do not believe it You do...
On the Categorisation of Peer Production
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Kant would have loved this one. Here's a remarkable wiki from the P2P Foundation that seeks to explore and categorise the efflorescence...
Not (Yet) The Terminator
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The news that California has passed tough new legislation to cut greenhouse emissions is of course hugely welcome . But as this wise piece...
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Opening Up Google
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Google exerts its fascination in part because it so opaque. A quintessential Web 2.0 company, owner of Blogger, it also has few outward-fac...
Pointless Exercises of Our Time
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So what is IEs 4 Linux ? IEs4Linux is the simpler way to have Microsoft Internet Explorer running on Linux (or any OS running Wine). No clic...
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After Open Access - Open Discourse?
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This is not exactly a new idea, but it's a further sign of how things are moving from basic open access to a more participatory, bloggy...
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