I’ll be speaking at GoOpen in Oslo on Tuesday (on the Grand Panel at 20:00) and Wednesday (the closing keynote). I’d love to meet with you if you’ll be in Oslo this week – find me at the event. I was asked for a two-paragraph “position statement” so the panel moderator knew where I was [...]
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Thanks to everyone who has been alerting me to the fact that the same post has been showing up here over & over again. The problem is once again that Delicious has gone crazy and the auto-post task over there is stuck in a state where it constantly respawns. I have reported the problem but [...]
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A legacy from the 1800s leaves Tokyo facing blackouts Turns out that the electricity crisis triggered by the multiple tragedies in Japan is the result of never having fixed the standards duality in the power supply that arose from having two strong players in their market claiming their standard needed to be respected and instead [...]
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You’d think given the number of places I track music and the number of things I have given permission to spam me with music information that something would have mentioned that The Unthanks had a new album coming out, or that they would be performing just up the road this Wednesday. But no, nothing did, [...]
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Skype security weaknesses could endanger ‘vulnerable users’ This Privacy International report covers a few of the reasons citizens in surveilled society should avoid Skype. I avoid it for these reasons and more, including: It’s 100% closed – design, interfaces, source – so all four software freedoms are absent I’ve no idea who is tapping it, [...]
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When we consider software patents, it’s easy to believe they are something outside the open source communities. Mentally, many of us model them as a weapon belonging to “patent trolls” – companies who don’t make products in the area of the patents they own (they may have other business interests they are funding) but instead [...]
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White House wants new copyright law crackdown This repeated lack of balance and failure to consider the overall cultural and technical picture of the change the Internet is catalysing is just so bad. Where is the voice speaking up for culture, youth and the individual? Another betrayal of “Yes We Can”. ForgeRock is Hiring in [...]
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You’ll recall about this time last year I was honoured to join the OSI Board and expressed hopes OSI could move towards representative governance. Well, I spent the weekend in San Francisco at an OSI Board face-to-face meeting (kindly hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation) where we finally agreed to move towards representative governance and also [...]
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GNU Free Call Announced This looks like an excellent initiative to create a decentralised voice-over-Internet service. Timely and necessary. Japan before and after the disaster Of all the photos around the web showing the consequences of the disasters in Japan, none has brought the scale of the destruction home more clearly than these interactive aerial [...]
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Open Source Software Hits a Strategic Tipping Point It is confirmed; open source has hit the top of the bell-curve. Gartner now believes it’s a tipping-point trend, so it’s definitely the case that open source software is mainstream and has been for several years. 10 Years On, Where Next For UK Government Open Source A [...]
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