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06 December 2006
TheyWorkForYou.com and Open Politics
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Today I received an email from a service I signed up to recently. I'd forgotten about it because it dealt with the apparently yawn-wort...
How Cool is Coull.tv?
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Today's Web user depends on search - well, I do, at least. But search/Google is really only doing words. And, as any fule kno , words ...
05 December 2006
Dell Delivers - Even in Second Life
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If you go to Dell's main site at www.dell.com , you have an unexpected option on the pop-up list of countries and regions at the bottom,...
Mashup 2.0 and a New Data Commons
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One of the defining characteristics of Web 2.0 is the ability to combine data from various sources - the mashup. And yet, in a sense, mashu...
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All the News You Can Trust
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Here's an interesting twist on the Digg idea: a site that does not merely vote stories up or down, but which rates them in terms of the...
From O(GL)LPC to O(W)LPC
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An interesting story here: Microsoft wants to make its Windows operating system available on the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) notebook compu...
The Great UnSuggester
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This , surely, is what technology was invented for: Unsuggester takes "people who like this also like that" and turns it on its he...
Free Tibet, Free Tibetan Typeface
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I came across this worthy project through an article about Tibet by Paul Jones: The Tibetan & Himalayan Digital Library project at the...
04 December 2006
See Viv Run
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Yes : The European Union's telecommunications watchdog has called for regulators to take a backseat in setting standards--and allow cons...
Climate Commons
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A new one for the commons collection: Climate commons is a networked conversation space that creates a cross-disciplinary platform for plan...
Thanks - I'll Pass on that Poisoned Chalice
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Good news , you might think: Novell today announced that the Novell edition of the OpenOffice.org office productivity suite will now support...
Time to Praise Simão Jatene?
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In these dark days when everything seems to be getting worse with the environmental commons, it is rare to come across something as positive...
Of Kant and Cant
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Sad to see the once-rigorous nation of Immanuel Kant falling for the, er, cant of the content industries in the copyright reform discussions...
The Distro Xerxes Would Have Used
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Here's one that famous blogger Mahmood Ahmadinejad probably prepared earlier : Jalal Haji-Gholam-Ali who is a member of Sharif Technica...
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...
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