Digital Economy Bill – UK Election Digital Debate Hear Brown, Cameron & Clegg in their own words on the Digital Economy Act. Brown says it needs scrutiny, although he still let Mandelson ram it through. Cameron tries to defend the Tories colluding to let it through, and leaves one wondering whose side he's on. Only [...]
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Web 2.0 gives with one hand and takes away with the other.
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Final Network.com servers/staff gone Network.Com was the (great) domain name that Sun used for its cloud computing initiatives. Seems it’s finally been decommissioned – not even a redirect today, there’s no ping response even. (tags: Sun Oracle Cloud) Chocolate lovers ‘are more depressive’, say experts Hard to believe chocolate is the cause – I prefer [...]
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The court loss for XOOPS is the wider community’s lesson.
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Listen to excellent dance-trance dub with us this weekend.
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The European Commission finally has offical procurement guidelines for open source. Plus more links.
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Is satire a better tool than explanation for getting digital liberty issues onto the nation’s political agenda?
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Obama release open source code. Way to go.
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Tech companies fear implications of trade pact It’s good to see press coverage starting to appear about ACTA – hopefully the release of the current draft today will get more comment flowing. The article notably only includes comment from trade lobbying bodies and not from individual companies. To effectively challenge ACTA, we need to help [...]
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Women to blame for earthquakes, says Iran cleric If you are in any doubt about the size of the cultural gulf that separates societies on this planet, read and weep. By the metric of this cleric, the road outside my study (where hundreds of students walk past every day) would have been shaken into a [...]
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