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10 November 2008
It's Morphic Resonance All Over Again
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Last week I was talking at the Open Everything meeting in London, where I went through some (most) of my tropes about openness and the crea...
07 November 2008
Russia and Cuba Unite Against Microsoft
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Recently, Russia announced that it was pushing Microsoft out of its schools in favour of open source. Now, it's going even further by ...
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Straws in the Wind
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Alongside all the high-profile wins for free software, there are what might be called guerilla gains happening in the b ackground – small co...
05 November 2008
Why is the BBC Running Microsoft Ads?
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I wrote below about Microsoft's rather desperate BizSpark. It all seemed pretty transparent to me. But not to the BBC, apparently, wh...
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Another Reason Not to Run Windows
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Windows malware on a computer running Ubuntu? Strange.
Too Right
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This is something that I've been thinking in the context of the wretched "three strikes and you're out": The internet is ...
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If You Can't Beat Them...
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... bribe them: Microsoft BizSpark is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key res...
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Open Educational Resources
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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation hase probably done more than anyone else to further open education, and it's at it again, this ...
Open Spectrum Victory in US
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Radio spectrum is inherently a commons, a resource that is owned by no one or by the state, but available to all. Too often in the past, tha...
Lords, Bless 'Em
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More sanity from the House of Lords: The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over the issue of keeping peoples' DNA and ...
Dig, Baby, Dig
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The idiocy of "drill, baby, drill" was evident to anyone with a functioning synapse: it would have led to marginal production of e...
Blears Shoots the Blogger Messengers
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Quoth Hazel Blears: "But mostly, political blogs are written by people with disdain for the political system and politicians, who see ...
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04 November 2008
Free Our Bills by Writing to Them
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Those nice people at Free Our Bills asked me to Write to Them, so I did: I am writing to ask you to sign Early Day Motion (EDM) 2141, whose...
Blu-ray's DRM Pixie Dust Defeated
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Why do people persist in believing that DRM can ever be effective for long? A small group of dedicated researchers over on the Doom9 forum ...
Of Patents and Property
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As long-suffering readers of this blog will have noticed, one of my favourite hobby-horses is that the whole idea of "intellectual prop...
Opencourseware About Openness
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Opencourseware grew out of the application of open source ideas to education, so it seems appropriate that education should return the favou...
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WikiDashboard
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This is really cool. One of the great things about Wikipedia is that you can see who has made edits: this makes the process of accumulation ...
Banking on Imaginary Assets
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Haven't banks learned * anything *? In 2006, the Bank of Communications Beijing Branch began offering loans to Chinese SMEs secured agai...
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OpenStreetMap's Lead Out in the Open
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I've written many times about OpenStreetMap, but rarely in the context of the proprietary online mapping services. Here's a post t...
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Open Content's Great Healing
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There is an irony at the heart of the open content world: that the two biggest successes there – Wikipedia and the Creative Commons movement...
03 November 2008
ACTA of Hypocrisy
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I've written several times about the mysterious Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement ( ACTA ), which is currently being negotiated behin...
Open Source Invention
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Here's an interesting point about a new trend in "publishing" inventions directly to YouTube: This is a very good article in ...
From Open... to Open Everything
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You've read the blog, now visit the conference : On 6 November 2008, London will host an Open Everything event, a global conversation ab...
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Open Enterprise Interview: Ross Mason, MuleSource
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One of the hottest buzzwords/buzzphrases over the last few years has been Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This is rather good news for ...
Whatever Happened to La Liberté?
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What on earth have the French got against the Internet? First the "three strikes and you're out", and now this : The Soviet In...
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