Ok, We Give Up. Scientific American editorial. April, 2005. Vol. 292 Issue 4, p10, 1p, 1c
There’s no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don’t mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues [...]
Technology > Brazil: Free Software’s Biggest and Best Friend” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/29/technology/29computer.html?ex=1269752400&en=9e12d51280809820&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland”>Brazil: Free Software’s Biggest and Best Friend
This story has been percolating for a few years all over South America. More and more governments in the 3rd world are repudiating microsoft in favor of open source. There’s a Wired story about Brazil from 2003. In 2002, [...]
Open Government: a journal on Freedom of Information
Here’s a new open access journal to keep track of. The inaugural issue includes articles about the UK freedom of information act (which amazingly didn’t come into force until January, 2005!), and a conference report on the 3rd intl conference of information commissioners. One [...]
Yahoo! Search
Yahoo now has a search that limits results to materials covered by a Creative Commons license instead of copyright.
Why is this search different?
This Yahoo! Search service finds content across the Web that has a Creative Commons license. While most stuff you find on the web has a full copyright, this search helps you find [...]
Hollywood Profits v. Technological Progress. POINT OF VIEW by DORON BEN-ATAR.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/1/2005.
Addressing the Grokster case, Ben-Atar says:
When Hollywood cries poverty, as the victim of pilfering teenagers and workers who live on a couple of dollars a day, it is laughable. And the studios’ suit could severely curtail P2P programs’ development [...]
Oral arguments are being heard at the US Supreme Court today on the Grokster case. This case has wide ranging implications for the future of technology, information in its many guises and the public domain. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has a page dedicated to MGM v. Grokster that includes a long list of Amicus briefs [...]
And Now For Some *Real* Radio / Last week: The death of corporate rock radio. This week: Readers extol glorious alternatives. Listen up!
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Hey all you podcasters out there. There are *tons* of alternatives to clear channel and this article lists some of them. Check them all out, [...]
South Huntington Public Library on Long Island, New York, became one of the first public libraries in the country to loan out iPod shuffles. Check out this Wired News: Library Shuffles Its Collection
The Memory Hole [rescuing knowledge, freeing information]
March, 2005 and it’s time once again to celebrate the blog of the month! The memory hole is an important site that collects, among other items, government documents that have been leaked, pulled from govt web servers, or otherwise in danger of disappearing (or never appearing at all!). [...]
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