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09 April 2009
*Truly* Open Education
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Here's some brilliant out-of-the-box thinking by Tony Hirst on how higher education should really be done: imagine this: when you start...
Proof That Some Lawyers *Do* Get It
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Not just right , but very well put: I often explain to clients and prospective clients that the main reward for a great, original product is...
French "Three Strikes" Law Unexpectedly Thrown Out
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In an incredible turn of events, the French HADOPI legislation, which seemed certain to become law, has been thrown out: French lawmakers ha...
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Should an Open Source Licence Ever Be Patent-Agnostic?
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Sharing lies at the heart of free software, and drives much of its incredible efficiency as a development methodology. It means that coders ...
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08 April 2009
Time to Get Rid of ICANN
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ICANN has always been something of a disaster area, showing scant understanding of what the Internet really is, contemptuous of its users, ...
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Second Life + Moodle = Sloodle
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Moodle is one of open source's greatest success stories. It's variously described as an e-learning or course management system. N...
Forward to the Past with Forrester
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Looking at Forrester's latest report on open source , I came across the following: The bottom line is that in most application developme...
Open Access as "Middleware"
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Interesting simile : A "legacy system" in the world of computing provides a useful analogy for understanding the precarious state ...
07 April 2009
OpenStreetMap Navigates to Wikipedia
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One of the powerful features of open source is re-use: you don't have to re-invent the wheel, but can build on the work of others. That...
Transparency and Open Government
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Not my words, but those of that nice Mr Obama: My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government....
Google and Microsoft Agree: This is Serious
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You know things are bad when a coalition includes Google and Microsoft agreeing on something... On Open Enterprise blog . Follow me on Twitt...
RFCs: Request for Openness
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There's a fascinating history of the RFCs in the New York Times , written by a person who was there at the beginning: Our intent was on...
06 April 2009
The Latest Act in the ACTA Farce
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I think the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement(ACTA) will prove something of a watershed in the negotiations of treaties. We have already ...
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A Different Kind of Wörterbuch
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Linguee seems to offer an interesting twist on a boring area - bilingual dictionaries : With Linguee, you can search for words and expressi...
Google's Perpetual Monopoly on Orphan Works
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Here's an interesting analysis of the Google Book Search settlement. This, you will recall, resolved the suit that authors and publish...
All Tatarstan Schools Moving to Free Software
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Tatarstan is the place to be: До конца текущего года все школы Татарстана планируется перевести на свободное программное обеспечение на баз...
How Can We Save Thunderbird Now Email is Dying?
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I like Thunderbird. I've been using it for years, albeit now more as a backup for my Gmail account than as my primary email client. But ...
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05 April 2009
Top 10 Measurements for Open Government
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One of the most exciting applications of openness in recent months has been to government. A year ago, open government was sporadic and pre...
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Who Can Put the "Open" in Open Science?
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One of the great pleasures of blogging is that your mediocre post tossed off in a couple of minutes can provoke a rather fine one that obvio...
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03 April 2009
Why We Should Teach Maths with Open Source
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Recently, I was writing about science and open source (of which more anon); here are some thoughts on why maths ought to be taught using f...
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User-Generated Content: Microsoft vs. Google
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Back in November I was urging you to submit your views on a consultation document on the role of copyright in the knowledge economy, put out...
HADOPI Law Passed - by 12 Votes to 4
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What a travesty of democracy: Alors que le vote n'était pas prévu avant la semaine prochaine, les quelques députés présents à l'hém...
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02 April 2009
"Piracy Law" Cuts *Traffic* not "Piracy"
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This story is everywhere today: Internet traffic in Sweden fell by 33% as the country's new anti-piracy law came into effect, reports s...
Open Science Requires Open Source
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As Peter Suber rightly points out , this paper offers a reversal of the usual argument, where open access is justified by analogy with open...
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Second Chance at Life
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Two years ago, the virtual world Second Life was everywhere, as pundits and press alike rushed to proclaim it as the Next Big Digital Thing....
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