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30 December 2006
Warning: Taggers at Work (Again)
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Over the New Year period I'll finish off tagging older posts to improve navigation on this site. So please excuse the RSS deluge that ...
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29 December 2006
Banking on Benkler
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Trust Yochai to give us a way forward - and some hope : In the mass media environment, there was a general culture of "I saw it in prin...
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Those who Cannot Remember the Past...
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...are condemned to release again it ten years later. I was interest to read that Sun has launched its Looking Glass interface. Not just ...
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Enter the Metaverse/Matrix/Neuronet
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An eagle-eyed Mark Wallace spotted the International Association of Virtual Reality Technologies (IAVRT), a new Web site/organisation , wi...
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Sick in the Genome
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From the nation that brought you whaleburgers : The breeder told Mr. Sasaki that he had bred a dog with three generations of offspring — in...
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Google's Open Airbag
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Google-watchers of the world, arise: a new name to add to the list of Googly things: Airbag . In many cases trying to determine the exact ca...
Free Software's Rottweiler
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I've noted before that FSF is changing ; Bruce Byfield has noticed too, and written a good summary of what the new FSF has done in 2006...
Against Anti-Anti-Copyright
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There's an interesting piece in the Reg by the photojournalist Sion Touhig, entitled "How the anti-copyright lobby makes big busi...
Your (Second) Life Flashes Past You
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Although not quite on the level of LWN 's comprehensive review of the year, Giff Constable's Second Life timeline is a handy summar...
Let's Go 3D
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As perceptive readers of this blog may have noticed, there's been an increasing number of stories about the rise of 3D technologies in c...
28 December 2006
From ODF to UOF and Back Again
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Since both of the ODF and UOF office formats are based on XML, it isn't (theoretically) hard to move between them. Nonetheless, it'...
Why Wireless is Hopeless: Manufacturers are Clueless
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Here's a thorough journalistic investigation into why manufacturers of wireless hardware have been less than helpful to the free softwa...
Open Source Software City: Foundations Laid
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I've not mentioned Korea's open source software city before because details seemed rather scarce, and there are, after all, plenty o...
Thanks a Trillion
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The RIAA has done a huge service by taking on the doughty AllofMP3 service. The December 21 lawsuit argues that 11 million songs were all...
27 December 2006
Virtually Not Shocking at All
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Now, why is it that I am not surprised by this result of a virtual recreation of the famous Milgram experiment ? The main conclusion of ou...
More than Academic?
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I'm always a bit sceptical about academic studies of open source, since they tend to tell what you already knew, but five years late and...
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26 December 2006
The Mainframe is Dead; Long Live the Mainframe
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Interesting : IBM today announced a mainframe milestone as more than 390 IBM business partners now offer nearly 1,000 applications for Syste...
Open Source Goes Dutch
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More good news from Europe (Via Australia , bizarrely): The City of Amsterdam said Friday it will spend euro300,000 (US$400,00) testing open...
Distro Delight
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Beautiful .
A Nobel's Noble Words on the Pharmaceutical Commons
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Great piece in the BMJ excoriating greed and stupidity in the pharmaceutical industry: It is hard to see how the patent issued by the US g...
Electric London
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Well, London is electric, so it makes sense for local delivery lorries to go electric too. The only questions are (a) what took so long gi...
Desperately Seeking Search Wikia
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It seems appropriate to return to active blogging after hours spent mindlessly tagging old posts (and I hope you lot are grateful) with a me...
23 December 2006
Warning: Taggers at Work
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As I've noted before, tagging seems to be something people visiting this site find useful. So I've decided to tag all the older po...
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Squeezing the Espresso Book Machine
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Printing-on-demand has long been a dream, and the Espresso Book Machine looks like it's making it a reality, albeit on a small scale. ...
Kind of Blue
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One of the less well-known benefits of creating a commons is that it allows people to experiment with those resources in an unfettered way. ...
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