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08 November 2006
All the Right Connexions
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Even though MIT's OpenCourseWare is better-known, Rice's Connexions programme is arguably a more innovative and thorough-going exa...
07 November 2006
Suite for Some
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What's most interesting about Intel's new SuiteTwo is that nobody's done it before (at least to my knowledge). And yet the ide...
Squirl It Away - Forever, Please
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A little while back I wrote about LibraryThing which lets you catalogue, tag and share information about your books. Obviously, it's a...
Let My Music Go
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There is a mini-disaster looming in the UK: the music industry wants to extend the term of copyright for sound recordings. It would be bad ...
You Know Second Life is Real...
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...when they start phishing for your passwords to steal your virtual money.
The Fabulous LiMux
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The migration to GNU/Linux by the city of Munich has become a thing of fable ever since it was mooted, so it's good to get some hard fac...
06 November 2006
Why Open Knowledge Will Ultimately Beat Closed
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Because : each user of the knowledge pool becomes a contributor back to the pool. As the pool grows it is ever more attractive to new users ...
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Open Source, Armenia and Duduks
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Why did nobody tell me about this ? I mean, they probably had open duduks, too.
Unreal Reality Shows in the Virtual World
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So-called "reality" shows like Big Brother are, of course, unreal by virtue of their artificial situations. So the news that Big...
Open Source as Archaeology
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An interesting thought about the modular design of free software: We have observed a number of projects where software development is drive...
05 November 2006
Jeff Bezos' New New Thing - the Old Old Thing
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Business Week gets uncharacteristically breathless about Jeff Bezos' amazing, risky, unheard, innovative, super-duper bet: Bezos wants...
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Chinese Whispers
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A fascinating post by Stephen Walli about China and openness. As well as his comments about why it was inevitable that open source should ...
04 November 2006
The Scalability of Virtual Fun
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Linus may not scale, but maybe virtual fun does.
A Framework for Web Science
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That's the title: as dull as ditchwater. The abstract sounds machine-generated: This text sets out a series of approaches to the analys...
03 November 2006
The Tragedy of the Fishy Commons
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In the face of "a major scientific study" that finds There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of t...
Mixed Messages from Microsoft
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Understandably everyone is jumping up and down about Microsoft's announcement that it will be working with Novell. But for me, the key...
02 November 2006
Wikipedia? - Old Hat. Try 3pedia.
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This is my kind of thing: 3pedia is intended to be an editable encyclopedia whose articles describe technologies and applications that conn...
DMCA = Destructive, Mean, Crazy, Asinine
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A nice round-up of recent DMCA-related events that demonstrate what a bad law this is. Not so much for its intent, which was bad, as for i...
MySQL: My, My, My
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This post notes that the site www.mysql.com is now in the Alexa 500. Although Alexa is a deeply-flawed measure - it's biased against G...
Five Stars for the Stern Report
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WorldChanging has a splendid review of the Stern Report, giving it an unequivocable thumbs-up. It also pulls out a subtle but important fa...
The Creative Commons Ecosystem Up Close
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Larry Lessig has a nice example of how CC materials can feed off each other in all sorts of creative ways. In this case, the result is the...
Collaborative, Interactive, Open Music
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One of the problems with open content is that it's hard to work on it collaboratively and interactively in real time, rather than simply...
Open Source Fabbers
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People whose opinion I respect think that 3D printing machines, which allow you to "print" an object in layers, just as ordinary p...
01 November 2006
Saving the Academic Commons from Enclosure
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Another thought-provoking piece from OnTheCommons, this time about the academic commons and the threats it faces: One of our most valuable ...
50 Bits and Bobs about Open Source
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Well, that's what I'd call it: the blog prefers "50 Open Source success stories in Business, Education, and Government". ...
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