"Over at Sphere of Networks, I published a text that tries to give a simple overview of the workings of information production in the age of the internet, covering everything from free software to free culture. This article is a slightly modified version of a chapter of this text.
Read more »Information technology, 'piracy' and DRM
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Free Culture Advanced
http://mako.cc –
"Not only is the free software movement a source of software and licenses, it is also a source of inspiration. In particular, free software has been cited by many in the nascent free culture movement as an explicit source of inspiration and point of departure.
Read more »The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts)
Achieve enlightenment: The command line as a tool
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Old-School Hacker Timeline
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"Before the word “hacker” was wrongly associated with vandalistic script kiddies and mischievous virus writers, it was used to describe an underground culture. This underground culture was made up of professional engineers and basement tinkerers obsessed with improving computer technology through unconventional, simple, yet brilliant tricks.
Read more »Congress Wants to Break NYU’s Internet and Kill Your Financial Aid
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"It’s not often that we have *urgent* news in the Free Culture world, but today we do. [...] This bill contains wording that, if passed into law, would jeopardize federal aid for universities if they refused to filter their student’s internet access.
Read more »Citizendium One Year On: A Contributor's Perspective
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"Citizendium recently celebrated its first year. As a past Citizendium contributor, as well as a (mostly anonymous) Wikipedia contributor, I thought I would offer my insider perspective on the progress of the project and its utility/feasibility..."
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Miro vs. Joost - Why this matters
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"Miro is open like the internet." [and Free as in Freedom!] "Joost works like a cable company with DRM. Which vison of web video do you want to see prevail, proprietary or open?" [or Free as in Freedom!] "Do you want corporations to decide what you watch?"
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media consolidation and the internet
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"...having a Free and Open Web is critical not only to ensuring that there are different viewpoints, but critical to our very Democracy. The more big media owns, the more the Web must remain Open..."
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Latest trial of the One Laptop Per Child running in India; Uruguay orders 100,000 machines
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"India is the latest of the countries where the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) experiment has started. Children from the village of Khairat were given the opportunity to learn how to use the XO laptop. During the last year XO was distributed to children from Arahuay in Peru, Ban Samkha in Thailand, Cardal in Uruguay and Galadima in Nigeria.
Read more »Free Software 2.0.0.9 builds now also available…
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The Mozilla people have started producing free software builds of firefox; "compiled with branding, logos and talk-back removed."
Download from:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/2.0.0.9/contrib/free-software/
Builds aren't yet automated, so there's only en-US at the moment.
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Against data retention
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"Yesterday, thousands of people in Germany gathered in about 40 towns and cities to protest and demonstrate against data retention. I was one of them..."
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Introducing: "The Monday Witness"
http://www.consortiuminfo.org –
Regular readers will know that my interest in standards is not limited to those that help make information and communications technology work. Over the years I've written about standards created to address concerns more directly relevant to the human condition, such as human rights standards, social responsibility standards, and much more.
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Net Neutrality Violation: Complaint Says Comcast Blocking User Access
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"Responding to Comcast's blocking of Internet traffic, members of the SavetheInternet.com Coalition and Internet scholars at the nation's top law schools today filed a petition and complaint with the Federal Communications Commission. The filings call for urgent action to stop violations of consumers' right to access the software and content of their choice..."
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FSFE: Invitation to the 2nd Swiss FOSS compatible lobbyists meeting in Berne
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" I would like to invite all people who have an interest in political activism for the benefits of Open Source and Free Software as well as aiming at a free and open information infrastructure (open standards, etc.) to the second Swiss FOSS compatible lobbyist meeting in Berne, in the conference room in the railway station.
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