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07 June 2007
Cool Earth Meltdown
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I was going to write about Cool Earth before, but the site went down. This is both good and bad news. Bad, because it suggests a lack of ...
The GNU GPL Is Dead - Not
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Bizarre : The FSF should realize by now their influence is waning. Look at the plethora of alternative licenses. Now they’re really hamstrin...
06 June 2007
Gaussian vs. Paretian Thinking
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Hm, nice : From my personal experience with the nearly complete lack of interest within big government bureaucracies for Paretian thinking t...
Winds of Change at the WTO?
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OK, this might not seem much, but the fact that it's being discussed at all is something of an achievement : The proposal for a new five...
Open Cities Toronto 2007
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Open Cities Toronto 2007 is a weekend-long web of conversation and celebration that asks: how do we collaboratively add more open to the urb...
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DRM's Good Side
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Well, sort of : Although DRM has failed to accomplish its main goal (stopping piracy), it has been successful at bringing people from every ...
Ecological Economics and the Commons
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Heavy but important stuff here : some resources should be part of the commons because their physical attributes mean that common ownership a...
Google Points Finger at Microsoft IIS
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Interesting bit of shin-kicking here : Web sites running Microsoft Corp.'s Web server software are twice as likely to be hosting malicio...
RMS Supports CC
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One of the unfortunate schisms in the open world has just been healed. The Creative Commons' decision to drop the Developing Nations l...
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05 June 2007
Movable Type Moves to Open Source
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Good news for the world of blogging - and beyond: Moveable Type 4.0 is the first major release of Movable Type since MT 3.0 in 2004 and com...
OA vs. Political and Selective Use of Data
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Here's a great - and sadly necessary - piece of analysis : Throughout the first half of 2007, the White House has falsely claimed that t...
04 June 2007
Open Access Trumps Developing Nations Licence
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In a significant announcement , the Creative Commons organisation has said that it is retiring the Developing Nations licence: The Developin...
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A Series of Tubes
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Now this is what I call a real distribution network: The London Book Project is a free book exchange on a massive scale. Using the London U...
No Xmas Cards for Xandros
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Well, it looks like the world of free software can cross another company off its Christmas card list: Microsoft and Linux distributor Xandr...
Web 2.0 Start-ups by Numbers
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I'm not the world's biggest fan of Guy Kawasaki, but these figures about his new Truemors site are interesting, not least this one...
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We Don't Need No Stinkin' Openness
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How's this for a stunning demonstration that the UK Government has something to hide on ID cards? Treasury officials are ordering the i...
You'd Be Nuts Not To...
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Bill Hooker points out that there is an important petition to establish a self-archiving open access mandate for Brazilian research circul...
02 June 2007
Taking Liberties...
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...With openness and much, much else. Spread the word .
Open Source Policing
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Is this perhaps one answer to open source war/criminality? Waleli's idea is to harness the power of picture messaging (MMS) to catch th...
Visualising DRM
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Having problems getting your head around that tricky concept of DRM? Try this . (Via Boing Boing .)
GNU GPLv3 - Nearly There
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The final draft of the GNU GPLv3 is out, together with copious explanations . If it's just a little too copious, you might try Matthew...
01 June 2007
Maybe Genomics is Getting a Little Too Personal
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So Jim Watson's genome will soon be made public . But not all of it: the only deliberate omission from Watson's sequence is that of...
Reed-Elsevier to Pull Out of Arms Fairs
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Well, since I've criticised my old employer Reed-Elsevier in the past for having blood on its corporate hands through its involvement i...
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Virtual GNU/Linux
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Virtual Windows systems are familiar enough, but how about this: LINA , a virtual GNU/Linux environment? With LINA, a single executable writ...
Fake or Fact?
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This is really cool. A little while back I wrote about Ed Felten's generator of 128-bit numbers. Lots of people were using this to &qu...
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