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09 August 2007
Welcome Back, HTML
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Younger readers of this blog probably don't remember the golden cyber-age known as Dotcom 1.0, but one of its characteristics was the co...
Academics Waking Up to Wikipedia
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Many people have a strangely ambivalent attitude to Wikipedia. On the one hand, they recognise that it's a tremendous resource; but on ...
08 August 2007
Firefox....for Cubs
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There's a new Firefox support site around that's aimed at absolute beginners. Smart move, now that Firefox is beginning to bleed b...
The (Female) RMS of Tibet?
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As a big fan of both freedom and Tibet, it seems only right that I should point to the Students for a Free Tibet site . Against a backgroun...
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On the Necessity of Open Access and Open Data
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One of the great things about open source is its transparency: you can't easily hide viruses or trojans, nor can you simply filch code f...
OpenProj
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For many years, the only decent free end-user app was GIMP , and the history of open source on the desktop has been one of gradually filling...
07 August 2007
Patent Joke of the Month
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It is, of course, hard to choose from the rather crowded field of contenders, but this one certainly takes the biscuit: An Information and ...
Mr. Dell Does the Decent Thing
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Hooray : today, it's official: Dell announced that consumers in the United Kingdom, France and Germany can order an Inspiron E1505N note...
In Denial
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This is an important story - not so much for what it says, but for the fact that it is being said by a major US title like Newsweek : Since...
Why ICANN Is Evil, Part 58697
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I've been tracking the goings-on at ICANN , which oversees domain names and many other crucial aspects of the Internet, for many years n...
06 August 2007
Lenovo Today, Tomorrow the World
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A small step , but one of an increasing number towards wider availability of open source on the desktop/laptop: Lenovo and Novell today anno...
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Live CD + Open Content = LiveContent
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And about time too: LiveContent is an umbrella idea which aims to connect and expand Creative Commons and open source communities. LiveConte...
Why Microsoft is Going Open Source
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All is explained here (well, not all, but a bit.)
05 August 2007
Of the People, By the People, For the People
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I'm rather slow in this one, but it's such a good example of how everyone gains from public collaboration - including Google, whose ...
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Oooh-Er OA
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This sounds slightly worrying : After careful consideration, the Cushing/Whitney Medical and Kline Science Libraries have decided to end the...
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Wiki Wiki Sun
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Wikis were born under the Hawaiian sun (well, the name was), so perhaps it's appropriate that Sun should have set up its own wikis , in ...
03 August 2007
Parallel Universes?
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Now, where have I heard this before? Free and open source software (FOSS) has roots in the ideals of academic freedom and the unimpeded exc...
Sword Patents
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Nice : MercExchange has utilized its patents as a sword to extract money rather than as a shield to protect its right to exclude or its mark...
On the Open Road
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One of the criticisms commonly levelled at free content is that it cannibalises existing paid-for content in a way that is economically unsu...
Open TTT and Openness
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One of the central themes of this blog is that the ideas behind free software can be applied much more widely - indeed, that open source is ...
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02 August 2007
Pamela Samuelson on Copyright Reform
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Here's a useful voice to have in the debate about copyright reform, Pamela Samuelson : The Copyright Act of 1976 is far too long, comple...
Rock On, Amarok
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Interesting : Magnatune, a record label that uses a CC BY-NC-SA license for all releases (Magnatune founder John Buckman is also on the CC b...
Google's Choice of Hercules
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Further to yesterday's post about a call to respect free use of copyrighted material, here's an interesting point about Google'...
01 August 2007
Playing Fair with Fair Use
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A straw in the digital wind? Today, the Computer and Communications Industry Association -- a group representing companies including Google...
PLoS ONE is (the) One
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PLoS ONE celebrates its first anniversary: The initial success of PLoS ONE is something unprecedented in scientific publishing. It has been...
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