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04 December 2006
Ode to an Expiring Blue Frog
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I suppose every frog has its day, but I hope that this doesn't mean the end for Azureus as we know and love it: Azureus, maker of the...
Saint Johnomics
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Sir John Sulston is one of my heroes, right up there with RMS. Indeed, Sulston can reasonably be called the RMS of genomics (or maybe RMS i...
Open Provenance Architecture
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Interesting : Ultimately, our aim is to conceive a computer-based representation of provenance that allows us to perform useful analysis and...
Open Science or Free Science?
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The open science meme is rather in vogue at the moment. But Bill Hooker raises an interesting point (in a post that kindly links to a cou...
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Brits Get the Net - and Net Ads
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I remember well during the heady Web 1.0 days worrying about business models (I know, this made me something of an oddity). Because it was ...
03 December 2006
Towards a Post-Copyright World
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One of the heartening things about fighting the inequities of the current system of intellectual monopolies is that there are a growing numb...
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02 December 2006
Bill Gates's Virtual Wealth
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Here's a very sharp post from Urizenus Sklar, which is a comment on Wagner James Au's post , which in turn was commenting on the ne...
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The Big IP Lie
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A very interesting transcript of a conversation between Reuters and Warner Music Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman. The latter is clearly try...
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01 December 2006
Fight for Net and Mobile Neutrality
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As if it isn't enough having to fight for Net neutrality, now it looks like in Europe we've got to do the same for Mobile neutrality...
Enter the WikiMatrix
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Confused by all the wikis out there? You will be, once you've worked your way through the dozens listed on this amazing site , which le...
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Brum Not So Glum
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Some fine reporting from Matthew Broersma on Techworld has dug up some interesting stuff about the so-called " failed " open sour...
30 November 2006
Sun Opts for GNU GPL v2.5
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I've written elsewhere about my pleasant surprise at Sun choosing the GNU GPL for Java. But an obvious question that follows on from t...
The Digital Library of India
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There's plenty of noise in the press (and blogs) about the Google Book project, or the Million Book Project . These are all interestin...
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Going All Googly on Copyright
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Some people might say I already write too much about copyright; but for those who don't, and are dying for even more of the stuff, here&...
Dry Up, Epson
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Time to stop buying Epson inkjet printers, it seems .
Finding Our Way to a Third Life
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Talking of geography, here's geograph , which "aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every ...
WAYN - Where Were You?
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The Internet famously abolishes geographical location, but people are still located. This means that you often want to know where your fami...
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29 November 2006
Microsoft: Do You Have to Be So Blatant?
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Massachusetts, we know, has had a troubled time when it comes to implementing ODF. But here's some fresh blood on the technical advisor...
WordPerfect Does ODF - Finally
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Still hedging its bets somewhat, Corel has finally done it: Corel Corporation (NASDAQ:CREL; TSX:CRE) today announced that Corel WordPerfect...
Closing in on the Tipping Point
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If users are a software company's bread and butter today, developers are the future. That's why Microsoft has built up such an impr...
BitTorrent Falling to Bits?
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Bad rumours swirling around BitTorrent : that it's getting lots of dosh, presumably to go corporate and "respectable", and th...
Trademark of the Blog
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On Technorati's home page, there is a rather witty piece of self-deprecation: "55 million blogs...some of the have to be good.&quo...
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OOPS - They Did It Again
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I've written about the OpenCourseWare ( OCW ) initiative several times. It began at MIT, but is now spreading as other institutions mak...
28 November 2006
Going Nuts over ODF
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And not just Brazil : The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad cross-section of organizations, academia and industry dedicat...
Big Blue's Cunning Ploy
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Clever : IBM, the world's largest computer company, has a successful venture capital group operating in the heart of Silicon Valley, ye...
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