No scripts or Tech Tips today. Just some prep for an experimental post coming up later this week.

You've read the book; now see the movie! Oh wait, this is actually a script to find your Google-indexed pages ...forget about that first part ;)

OOXML might never catch on like its similar predecessor; Italy does ODF

"...With pleasure we invite everybody for the official launch of the Free Knowledge Institute. The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is a non-profit organisation that fosters the free exchange of knowledge in all areas of society. Inspired by the Free Software movement, the FKI promotes freedom of use, modification, copying and distribution of knowledge..."

"I had the pleasure of meeting Kim Tucker at the OpenLearn conference last week. Kim has long campaigned on the concept of free/libre knowledge as the most effective way to bridge the knowledge divide. I highly recommend his essay,'Say "Libre" for Knowledge and Learning Resources', something of a manifesto calling for wider access to freedom of access to information and knowledge..."

"The Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) is a non-profit organisation that fosters the free exchange of knowledge in all areas of society. Inspired by the Free Software movement, the FKI promotes freedom of use, modification, copying and distribution of knowledge in four different but highly related fields: education, technology, culture and science."

"New Delhi, Oct. 24. ``Knowledge is not inward looking... it liberates`` is one of the convictions proposed by the International Congress on ``Free Software and the democratisation of knowledge`` organised by the Salesian Polytechnical University of Ecuador..."

Michael Gibbons, director of science and technology policy research at Britain's Sussex University, said universities must abandon their centuries-old model of linear knowledge transfer and instead open their doors and minds to knowledge exchange with competitors and students...He cited as a model the development of the open-source Linux computer operating system, freely available and able to be modified, used and redistributed by anyone.

What is free knowledge? What is a free encyclopedia? The essence is something that anyone who understands free software can immediately grasp. A free encyclopedia, or any other free knowledge, can be freely read, without getting permission from anyone. Free knowledge can be freely shared with others. Free knowledge can be adapted to your own needs.