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16 March 2007
But Is It Cricket?
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This raises some interesting issues about what exactly copyright covers : A cricketing website has found what it hopes is an inventive way t...
Mapping Social Networks
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Social networks lie at the heart of Web 2.0 - and of the opens. So it is surprising that more hasn't been done to analyse and map the e...
15 March 2007
The Other Open Source Java
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Sun's Java is not the only one going open source : In spite of a deal with the U.S.-based software giant Microsoft, the government pledg...
QualiPSo: EU OSS and Acronym Madness
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This sounds great : Leading European, Brazilian and Chinese information and communications technology (ICT) players announced today that the...
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Webly Openness from the Horse's Mouth
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Sir Tim has been talking to a bunch of boring politicians. Here's my favourite bit - a neat distillation of why Net neutrality matters...
Red Hat Exchange: Apotheosis of the Stack
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I've written several times on this blog and elsewhere about the rise of the open source enterprise stack. Its appearance signals both...
IT's Got to be Local and Open
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Nice story in the Guardian today about a local UK health system that works - unlike the massive, doomed, centralised NHS system currently ...
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14 March 2007
Infoethics, Open Access, ODF and Open Source
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Now here's something you might not expect from UNESCO every day: The Infoethics Survey of Emerging Technologies prepared by the NGO Gen...
What Open Access Can Do for Open Content
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One of the central ideas behind openness is re-use - the ability to build on what has gone before, rather than re-inventing the wheel. And ...
Wisdom of the Mindless Sports Fans
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Although PicksPal, a fantasy sports betting site, interests me not a jot, this is truly fascinating : It’s all for fun, but the company star...
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Dastardly DRM Plans for Digital Video Broadcasting
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Alas, not many people care enough about the threat posed by DRM. But I suspect that quite a few care about their TV viewing, and the tradit...
13 March 2007
Dell is Listening...
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... apparently : Dell to Expand Linux Options Your feedback on Dell IdeaStorm has been astounding. Thank you! We hear your requests for de...
Fight! Fight! Fight!
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It is a truth universally acknowlegded that there is only one thing more stupid than content producers suing little people with nothing in t...
Opening Our Eyes to OpenID
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Sign-ons can be a real pain, as you are forced to create ever more accounts at sites. A single sign-on is the obvious solution, but getting...
Going Qwaqqers About Qwaq
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Even though Second Life gets the lion's share of the attention, there are several other virtual world systems out there, including some ...
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12 March 2007
Opening Up the Euro-Augean Farms
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Openness and governments go together like horses and horseless carriages, so I was heartened to come across what sounds like a major victory...
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Chilling Freedom of Speech on Polar Bears
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Internal memorandums circulated in the Alaskan division of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service appear to require government biologists or ...
All A-twitter about Twitter
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Like many, I've been following Twitter with interest, if a certain bemusement: just what is the attraction of knowing that your mates ar...
09 March 2007
Has Microsoft Blinked on Office formats?
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Microsoft Corp's director of corporate standards has conceded that 'legitimate concerns' have been raised in response to its att...
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Open Geology
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Once that open access, open data meme starts spreading , there's just no stopping it.... British scientists are leading an international...
Digital Memories of the Tibetan Uprising
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I've written before about how digital technology can be applied by the oppressed and disenfranchised to help preserve their identity. ...
Metaweb, not Betterweb?
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Is it just me, or does this sound like a horribly retrograde move ? A new company founded by a longtime technologist is setting out to crea...
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Open Source Business Models
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As readers of this blog may recall, in general I'm not a big fan of analysts, since they seem to offer very little other than a re-state...
Urban Forest Tracker = Open Source 2.0?
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Traditionally, open source has been most successful when applied to generic, mainstream software categories - operating systems, Web servers...
08 March 2007
AllPeers Goes OP2Pen
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I can't help feeling that P2P is so, well, you know, dotcom 1.0. And I must confess that I've never had the slightest urge to use t...
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