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06 July 2007
Elsevier Begins the Journey to Openness
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For all its faults, lovingly detailed in this blog, Elsevier seems slowly to be getting the hang of this Internet stuff: About Google/Goog...
The Language of Copyright
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Even though IANAL, I rather enjoy the intricacies of copyright law. Maybe it's because copyright occupies such a central place for both...
Decoupling Software and Standards
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As you may have noticed, there is a big bust-up over office file formats going on at the moment. On the one hand, we have ODF, which is a c...
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05 July 2007
Google Books Open Up - A Bit
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One of the problems with the otherwise laudable Google Book Project is that it's not actually providing access to the texts, just adding...
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04 July 2007
How Daft Can You Get?
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Let me count the ways : David Cameron has pledged to extend copyright on music to 70 years - in exchange for an effort by music bosses to cu...
DomainKeys Identified Mail: A Certain Thing
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I'm amazed it's taken so long to come up with this : DKIM uses digital signatures to authenticate messages. These signatures allow y...
The Nature of the Beast
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The journal Nature is a rather ambiguous beast. On the one hand, it represents the acme and epitome of the current science publishing syst...
Having Your Digital Cake and Eating It
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How rich is this ? The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the ...
03 July 2007
A Declaration of Virtual Policy...
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...made by representatives of law, industry, and academia, assembled in full and free convention as the first Synthetic Worlds Congress. Whe...
Firefox Fights On
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Everybody knows that Firefox is one of open source's biggest success stories. What many may not know is that the story is not over: On...
Blizzards and Beauty: An Ode to Open Access
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Peter Suber has long been recognised as the official chronicler of the open access movement; now, with the publication of this paean , it s...
You Know Virtual Goods Are Real...
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...when they have their own summit . (Via Virtual China .)
02 July 2007
This is My 2000th Post
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Apparently. Just thought I'd mention it.
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The Industry Formerly Known as Music
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Prince has always been ahead of the pack. Now he's doing it again : The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free...
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The Birth of Blognation
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I was a big fan of the Vecosys blog - I even got used to its horrible name. And then it went away, only to emerge, phoenix-like, from the ...
Catalonians of the World, Unite!
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Good news: a Catalan translation of Rebel Code - Codi Rebel , no less - is hurtling towards a bookshop near you. Well, it is if you live ...
Up and At 'Em, Mappam
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OpenStreetMap has always been one of my favourite open endeavours. It's a fine example of people getting fed up with official intransi...
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Wii Opens Up a Bit, We All Gain
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Game consoles are notorious for being tightly-controlled, closed platforms. So this news , delivered en passant , is a rather significant v...
Reputation Management in the Age of Google
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Here's one good reason why you might want to blog: At the height of the cyber-abuse, Sue Scheff, a consultant to parents of troubled te...
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I Fear the Geeks Bearing "Lughenjo"
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If you've been holding your breath while waiting to discover what The Economist's super-duper, top-secret, Web 2.0-y, skunkworks Pro...
Signs of the (Virtual) Times
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The virtual world of EVE Online now has an official economist , Eyjólfur Guðmundsson: Some of you may have read in various articles and int...
Open Source Life
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Fascinating : Whatever Carl Woese writes, even in a speculative vein, needs to be taken seriously. In his "New Biology" article, h...
Porting the Genomic OS
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The genome can be thought of as an operating system; it runs on the cell's hardware platform (which is generally created by the operatin...
The Penguin Goes to Redmond
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Well, to Redmond Magazine , that is....
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01 July 2007
Google: Evil Costs Extra
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"Don't be evil" is Google's motto . Perhaps they need to amend that to "don't be evil unless it's really pro...
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