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05 October 2006
In Praise of Google Groups
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Although people are rightly suspicous of Google's huge power these days, it is also important to remember those actions that are praisew...
04 October 2006
Getting Creative with Money
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The standard cry is: How do you make money from free? Well, Jamendo has a few ideas : Jamendo sells advertising space on the jamendo.com ...
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David Who? Oh, I See...
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I don't know who this geezer is (clearly my fault), but he's seriously right-on. Not only does he have his own foundation that wor...
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Open Shakespeare Beta
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Get your online honorificabilitudinitatibus .
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MA ODF: The Soap Opera
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You couldn't make this stuff up. The man who succeeded Peter Quinn, the main engine behind the adoption of the ODF standard in Massachus...
It's a LibraryThing
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Quite rightly, everyone raves about Wikipedia's million+ English-language articles as a monument of cumulative achievement. But in the...
The Iceman Cometh
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USA Today has a chilling piece about the increasing number of libel cases being brought against bloggers: Robert Cox, founder and presiden...
Shiny Software and Pebbles on the Cairn
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Here's an important point that needs making from time to time to encourage newcomers to participate in open projects: No one takes cont...
Socialising with Social Media
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Everyone seems to be giving away e-books under CC licences at the moment - and jolly good thing too. The latest comes from Antony Mayfield...
Crunching Nuvvo
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I hadn't heard of Nuvvo, but now I have, I'm not surprised by this item from TechCrunch : We wrote about Nuvvo, a brave startup tak...
03 October 2006
The Cost of Freedom - Not
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"The cost of freedom in the digital age" is a sadly misguided article on openDemocracy that questions whether Creative Commons, ...
Doing the Joomla Mambo
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Forks are a particularly intense moment for free software projects, and examining the reasons for and result of a fork throws fascinating li...
Good Signals from WIPO
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We're not there yet, but things are looking much better on the WIPO Broadcasting Treaty front than anyone could have reasonably expecte...
Feeling Mule-ish
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Lots of people seem to be getting excited about Mule and MuleSource . I would too if it weren't for sentences like this : Mule is a me...
Open Journalism, Transparently
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I wrote about Jay Rosen and his open journalism experiment a few months back. If you're still unconvinced (or just a bit in the dark) ...
DRMnation - Do Something!
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It's easy to feel impotent in the face of the mega-corporations' assault on the commons of ideas. They are so big, rich and powerfu...
Soonr or Latr?
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Soonr is one of the few new startups that seems to be offering a service that's useful; it lets you access your PC from a mobile phone,...
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Eyeballs as Micropayments
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Here's a post that wraps up a lot of ideas. I've often wondered why micropayments have never taken off. Personally, I'd be fin...
ODF Test Suite
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One of the key features of the ODF standard is that it can be supported by many different programs. But this begs the question what the sta...
02 October 2006
Oh, the Irony
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DVD Jon is one of free software's folk heroes, famous for reverse-engineering the control software used by DVDs, to allow GNU/Linux sys...
Open Access in a Nutshell
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Talking of open access, here's the one paragraph explanation of its economics: The central idea of ‘author-side’ payment in order to se...
Proof that Open Access is Better
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You may not care much about the Poincaré Conjecture - shame on you - but you should definitely be interested in the way in which its proof ...
01 October 2006
Knight is Right
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Nothing new here, but Sir Tim's wise words on Net neutrality have a weight that few others can match. Pass them on to your favourite t...
ArXiv from the Horse's Mouth
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It can be argued that arXiv is one of the two main wellsprings of the open access movement. This makes an article by Dr arXiv himself, Pa...
Paying the Price
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Nice piece in The Independent about a report from PricewaterhouseCoopers on the cost of capping greenhouse emissions: The cost of curbing ...
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