Monday, 12 September 2011

110912

Google Claims Copied Code Means No Infringement - http://bit.ly/oW1KPF this looks v. clever - will the judge go for it? (v @opensourcerer)

Celebrating Freesound 2.0, retiring Sampling+ licenses - http://bit.ly/o8cZHz great project, interesting move #cc

Why Brazilian expats are moving back home to work with startups - http://tnw.co/nA0s2g interesting straw in the wind #brazil

#Twitter To Support #Hindi - http://bit.ly/r9FnM9 I'm surprised it's taken this long for such an important market #india

interesting: #opendata portals in #Singapore - http://bit.ly/rkeJ95 - and South #Korea – http://bit.ly/qjgtzc

Install the Classic Desktop in #Ubuntu 11.10 - http://bit.ly/q9Fgbl this will be me #linux

Climate Scientists Defense Fund – Please Help - http://bit.ly/opNtAp sad that it has come to this

Latindex Portal of Portals - http://bit.ly/paBLai "10e6 scientific articles from Latin America & the Caribbean, Spain & Portugal" free (v @petersuber)

Owning the #stack: The legal war to control the #smartphone platform - http://bit.ly/n9yeTs excellent, detailed summary

useful list of #opendata portals in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Georgia, Albania, Thailand, UAE, Hong Kong, Kenya [ru] – http://bit.ly/pHje0E

UK Government: Open Standards Must be #RF, not #FRAND - http://bit.ly/nybMq5 this is big: finally a definitive answer #opensource

RT @AbsintheSyringe @BiellaColeman Shuttleworth & I are off to a meeting with President of Republika #Srpska. Topic? Migration to #Linux.

Another 59 Defenders Of Copyright Monopoly And Locked-Down Society Just Lost Their Jobs - http://bit.ly/nA7267 cool #germany

Social network lets people with same gut flora hook up - http://bit.ly/ro6tT7 is it just me, or is this vaguely disquieting?

Former RIAA Lobbyist, Now Judge, Says Lowest Possible Statutory Damages For Single Case Of Infringement Is $3,430 – http://bit.ly

#Tablets com #Android já estão mais baratos por causa dos incentivos do governo? - http://bit.ly/pPdUtV lucky old #Brazil

Term extension is a cultural disaster - http://bit.ly/potGjh what a surprise: the #copyright #ratchet turns another notch... #eu

How #China kept lid on Ramadan - http://lat.ms/pnIUkU "more people see religion as a form of resistance" (v @farwestchina @markmackinnon)

Why I Insist On Saying “The Copyright Monopoly” - http://bit.ly/qDEre4 of course, like patent monopoly: they're intellectual monopolies

Better Swatch What You Say - http://bit.ly/naZsUS remember, this is the logical conclusion of #copyright (v @normative)

#Mozilla as teacher - http://bit.ly/ob0tYp sounds perfect to me #education #coding

Libertarian Think Tanks Oppose #Patents On Abstract Ideas - http://onforb.es/o13cDk interesting, possibly quite significant #scotus

#MPAA: Bad At Math & Bad At Economics - http://bit.ly/nUX9sZ and guess what? they just don't care...

USPTO decides two #Rambus #patents are invalid - http://bit.ly/nq6SIi "After it won lawsuits with them"

Anti-Piracy Lobby Misleads Aussie Press for Three-Strikes Campaign - http://bit.ly/phzC5v making fools of journos - smart move

At #TPP Negotiating Round, USTR Holds Firm on Secrecy and IP Maximalism - http://bit.ly/pWEf8h more details of US bad behaviour

EU Commissioner on Trade Discusses IP and Development, Asks IPR Owners to Increase Lobbying - http://bit.ly/oXcJ7b how about working for us?

USTR Release of White Paper on “Trans Pacific PartnershipTrade Goals to Enhance Access to Medicines” - http://bit.ly/r0X2Kc good debunking


Sunday, 11 September 2011

110911

6 Things the Film Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know About - http://bit.ly/oFcPaU why #hollywood has zero moral authority (v @jamesallworth)

Sanctioned: #P2P lawyer fined $10,000 for "staggering chutzpah" - http://bit.ly/roTju2 only? when people get fined millions for sharing?

294 #Patent Lawsuits Were Filed In August 2011; Mobile Handset Complaints Up 25 Percent Yearly - http://tcrn.ch/qfbhi2 innovative, yeah

Hollywood #Leaks strikes fear into film industry bosses - http://bit.ly/negjFN it's their accounts, not scripts, that would be interesting

Pirate Party Launches ‘Facebook’ For Movies - http://bit.ly/qwZxKw "an escalation of their ‘Linking is Not a Crime’ campaign"

How to Beat Terrorism: Refuse to Be Terrorized - http://bit.ly/no6oKb "not anything remotely like existential threat we make it out to be."

"When our parents sent a letter in the mail, nobody was allowed to open it to check if it contained a copied poem" – http://bit.ly/nEh6FQ

Perry Wants to Bring All America the Texas Miracle, Firefighters Paying for Gear, Engine Fuel - http://bit.ly/paFEbR troubling stuff #us

RSS died for your sins - http://bit.ly/pSzzUo I found this very witty, very wise piece in my RSS feed; ironically, I can't open the web page

Saturday, 10 September 2011

110910

Student facing extradition to US over TV website is bailed - http://tgr.ph/qeZI19 good to see TV-Links case being mentioned #odwyer

Vanishing Shangri-La - http://bit.ly/p4xZCb really depressing #china #tibet

#Microsoft’s attack on Brazilian national sovereignty: Wikileaks, #ODF and OpenXML - http://bit.ly/qFtrYc more on disgraceful saga

Natural Gas Bombshell: Switching From Coal to Gas Increases Warming for Decades, Has Minimal Benefit Even in 2100 – http://bit.ly/n8v2vd

#Monsanto Denies Superinsect Science - http://bit.ly/pbMTYK the usual denial of evolution: maybe it's run by creationists?

Entire staff of TechCrunch threatening to commit suicide unless Arrington gets his way, on everything, forever - http://bit.ly/raXaNf ha!

You must have a #Klout score of 40 or more to get into this Fashion’s Night Out party - http://tnw.co/oVZyjZ hmm, our reputational future?

If A Kid Grabs Your Camera In The Street And Snaps Some Photos, Who Owns The #Copyright - http://bit.ly/qQx7sN absurd it has to be asked

A Tipping Point of Print Quality (Open Source for the win) - http://bit.ly/ofshel the irresistible rise of #RepRap #3dprinters

AOL Eyes Merger With Yahoo - http://on.mash.to/pFghza AOL-Time-Warner 2.0? truly a disaster made in heaven...

Why should open geospatial data and software be taken seriously? - http://bit.ly/qTi0Fc useful intro #opendata #opengeo

“Hiring Was Easy After We Open-sourced Our Code” [ERPNext, Open Source ERP Solution] - http://bit.ly/qw22Hp interesting effect

LexisNexis open sources code for #Hadoop alternative - http://bit.ly/oeUhqY “We’re now really open source"

Righthaven: We Might Have To Declare Bankruptcy - http://bit.ly/pxiqCN what a bunch of jokers #copyright

"Informatica la Castel" Free Software Summer School, 2011 edition, #Romania - http://bit.ly/oXC3eS this looks fun...

The final UN declaration on NCDs - http://bit.ly/pc5v30 US "would have rather walked away than concede any ground on intellectual property"

WikiLeaks: US lobbied against breastfeeding in the Philippines - http://bit.ly/nFLEjt heartwarming stuff (v @jmcest @wikileaks)

9/11: The day we lost our privacy and power - http://bit.ly/pg5PUd how we were tricked into giving up our liberty; maybe time to get it back

#Wikileaks: Stepping Out of Ottoman Archives, Diplomat Says ‘We Really Slaughtered Them!’ - http://bit.ly/osm9aP if only they could admit it

#Blair knew immediately that 9/11 attacks 'changed everything' - http://bit.ly/oUL4tK yes, in terms of his trampling of liberties in the UK

Friday, 9 September 2011

110909

Still A Long Way To Go For Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - http://bit.ly/nbbeYH good summary of where things stand #acta

pic of the week : Leadenhall Market - http://bit.ly/qBRUDP gorgeous #london #pix #flickr

Project Biped - http://bit.ly/oryWpH #openhardware project to produce dynamically-balanced bipedal #robot using 3d printer

France gets A+ from the US for its anti-consumer intellectual property related policies - http://bit.ly/orgmuF French citizens can get lost

Fujian fish drop dead in biblical proportions - http://bit.ly/qHtvHC eek #china

Photographs Are Mechanical Representations Of Facts, And Thus Should Have Only Thin Copyright Protection - http://bit.ly/qVjYw1 interesting

U.S. measures to reduce teenage smoking deemed WTO violation - http://bit.ly/nrLBdF #WTO is a disgrace - time to abolish it

Cablegate: #Microsoft Asks US Government to Help Derail Vietnam’s Migration to GNU/#Linux - http://bit.ly/ox82j9 truly shabby behaviour

#Apple sees Galaxy #Tab ban upheld in Germany over #Samsung patent lawsuit - http://tnw.co/pMjAg2 in notoriously patent-friendly court

Cablegate: “42% of Argentine Firms Use #Linux on at Least Some of Their Computers” - http://bit.ly/n5PWar v interesting stat #argentina

UK bookseller Waterstone’s to launch a Kindle competitor - http://tnw.co/oOQZKP will it be #android based? #ebooks

Murdoch’s News International reportedly launching new online publication in the UK - http://tnw.co/owkd9y but will they call it Delphi 2.0?

Extension of #Copyright term for Sound Recordings in EU - http://bit.ly/ps2vGv good summary of a disgraceful, unjustifiable move #monopolies

UK promises #transparency at home whilst fighting it in Brussels - http://bit.ly/pVidJB hypocrisy, thy name is Dave (& Nick)

Government of Castile-La Mancha to drive free software innovation within MORFEO community - http://bit.ly/peMvpL #opensource moves in #spain

#Oracle v. #Google - Google's Expert Report - http://bit.ly/npic9H "I disagree with Prof. Mitchell’s conclusion"; no surprise...

Kernel comment: The obstacle course of cooperation - http://bit.ly/rrcfER raises important issues #linux #wifi

#Patent Reform Passes the Senate with Teeth, Heart Missing - http://rww.to/nqvHw3 don't expect a brain, either...

Bliar: How Much Death Can One Man Want? - http://bit.ly/o2z9yg go on, tell us what you really feel... #iraq #iran #torture

Practical Tips For Piratenpartei Berlin - http://bit.ly/neMVmu "chance of success in the election has now climbed from 90% to 99%." #germany

Innovation & OpenStack: Lessons from HTTP - http://bit.ly/raphl4 I don't get this: surely building on AWS APIs hands control to Amazon?

“An Extreme Rainfall Event Unprecedented in Recorded History Has Hit the Binghamton, New York Area” - http://bit.ly/qkMkN6 extreme enough?

EU Consultation on scientific information in digital age - http://bit.ly/nCgRI6 closes today: pl. do this now - only takes 5' online #openaccess

Proposal for a WTO Agreement on the Supply of Knowledge as a Public Good - http://bit.ly/nVgQkl now that's an idea

In a Bold Move Towards Accountability, Road Casualty Data Published Online in UK - http://rww.to/pMeh6Y kudos to all involved #opendata

UK Police attempting to criminalise investigative #journalism - http://bit.ly/o3niZc very bad trend

#RIAA Sending #DMCA Takedowns On FREE Music Being Distributed Directly Off Universal Website & Promoted By Artist – http://bit.ly/ndnWrP

Arduino ADK spices up phones - http://bit.ly/o26sQG very cool: #arduino meets #android

#Patents Directed to Human Organisms - http://bit.ly/nSKu6W the makings of another mess?

Thursday, 8 September 2011

110908

#HTC Bites Back Against #Apple, Suing With #Patents it Got From Google - http://dthin.gs/n2YlRt Apple deserves this, but such a waste

#LibreOffice and #OpenOffice.org drift apart - http://bit.ly/qxjW7s fascinating watching this fork happen #opensource

The Economics of Open Data – Mini-Case, Transit Data & Translink - http://bit.ly/pE89GQ excellent analysis of why free makes business

#P2P lawyer: IP address not enough, let me search all PCs in the house - http://bit.ly/puXwUy this is where #copyright insanity takes us

Michael Hart (1947 - 2011): Prophet of Abundance - http://bit.ly/ntCevz tragic early loss of a great man #projectgutenberg #pd #copyright

Shard View at Night Panorama - http://bit.ly/q7LLDR wow: amazing high-resolution pic of #london from on high

Top Entrepreneurs Warn Congress: PROTECT IP Will Stifle Innovation & Hurt Job Growth - http://bit.ly/nlO7wY useful

Microsoft signs #Android patent deals with Acer and ViewSonic - http://tnw.co/rnXn1f more fool them#

Inside a $59 Billion Heist: World’s Software Pirates - http://bit.ly/ni8vpj more #BSA tripe; here are the facts – http://bit.ly/lDq9fs

RT @newsbrooke The lunacy of allowing public bodies to copyright official documents. (via @FOIMonkey) bit.ly/pq6cxg >>important precedent

#BSA secret agenda: open source saves the world - http://bit.ly/qmxuUr oh, well played, sir!

#Google Buys Local Restaurant Reviews And Recommendations Company #Zagat - http://tcrn.ch/pmYadI losing focus?

South African fossils halfway between ape and human - http://bit.ly/ouPhTj one for the Creationists... #evolution

#Mozilla’s Media, Freedom and the Web Festival, November 2011 - http://bit.ly/qRPrvi in #london, too

European Council Offers Rebuke to U.S. #Secrecy Policy - http://bit.ly/pOgNCw interesting (v @normative)

A Simpler Explanation of Why Software is Mathematics - http://bit.ly/nSLTgo v long, v impressive #patents

Ethical Investment Revolt - HP & Microsoft deleted from Dow Jones Sustainability Index - http://zd.net/ns6DOL straws in the wind (v @rmack)

Kellogg's Stakes Claim To Toucans, Mayan Imagery; Cease-and-Desist To Guatemalan Non-Profit - http://bit.ly/oGT8uY #kellog's makes me gag

Wednesday, 7 September 2011

110907

Senado Mexicano ratifica de forma unánime y oficial su rechazo al #ACTA - http://bit.ly/ocbcvG great move by Mexican Senate - but now what?

Hollow States and a Crisis of Capitalism - http://bit.ly/pHENNb heady stuff

Dossier on EU sound recording #copyright extension - http://bit.ly/r51nRM why it just does not make economic sense

#Australia: Should innovation #patents be unavailable 4 computer software? - http://bit.ly/rerHzl important: have your say (v @schestowitz)

Teratocracy Rises - http://bit.ly/mXFfnF great piece on a clear & frightening trend #democracy #freedom

Frankreich: Sozialdemokraten wollen Filesharing entkriminalisieren - http://bit.ly/n8hUQ8 another reason to hope #sarkozy loses #hadopi

Spartaci, Spartacum, Spartacuses? - http://bit.ly/oEeTAe charged with "the possession of ‘leaflets and signs‘" what??? (v @monkchips)

Judge Decimates #BitTorrent Lawsuit With Common Sense Ruling - http://bit.ly/rb5FYH wow, lots of important points #copyright

Freeing Train Data - http://bit.ly/qvGV8T fascinating stuff - not just for anoraks #opendata #trains

LibDem UK government junior partner: no net neutrality regulation yet - http://bit.ly/oJXUSy hopeful, if a little confusing #netneutrality

Dolphins call each other by name - http://bit.ly/oI4Y8P exciting, if confirmed #ethology #linguistics

"more China embraces role as economic heavyweight in integrated world, better for the rest of world" - http://bit.ly/rkiqei (v @chinesepod)

Was #Marx Right? - http://bit.ly/niMLIO "there might have been something to Marx's critiques of #capitalism after all" #economics

Sequenza 21: Reviewed CDs 2006-2011 - http://bit.ly/q1B6dh #spotify list for contemporary classical music fans...

A new life for Taser, this time with less controversy - http://bit.ly/oCoOa6 head-mounted cameras to record those #taser #deaths in detail

8 Alternative #Android App Stores From #China - http://bit.ly/o0NvGi amazing

Cookie monitoring?! No way…just a “coincidence” - http://bit.ly/p4sCLQ interesting, worrying... (v @airvpn)#privacy

Koch Brothers' Million-Dollar Donor Club - http://bit.ly/n4ATtl e.g. Templeton of "Templeton Prize" (v @jackshafer @GregMitch @benpolitico)

Suit Over ConAgra's "All-Natural" Claims Could Open Food Litigation Floodgates - http://bit.ly/qCEudj could be big #gm

Pirate Bay Movie Leaks Traced Back To Swedish Film Institute - http://bit.ly/mVfpzo so what's the problem?

#Samsung to acquire #MeeGo, report claims - http://bit.ly/p2oT6V well, that would be interesting #android

Watch 5 years of #Kiva micro-loans spread social impact across globe [Video] - http://tnw.co/qop6zY great visualisation; inane soundtrack

Why aren’t we allowed to know which domains the UK government has registered? - http://bit.ly/p0cbjw #JANET being stupid

Puerto 80 Responds Forcefully To DOJ's Claims Concerning Domain Seizures - http://bit.ly/oQq2I5 kudos #copyright

Democratising #OpenCourseWare - http://bit.ly/oZM9R1 imagine if everyone could upload lectures? (v @BiellaColeman)#ocw #education

Tuesday, 6 September 2011

110906

Cablegate: Ireland Pushes Charlie #McCreevy to Help #Microsoft Against Antitrust Regulators - http://bit.ly/nCnfTK gosh, what a surprise

Hats_Micael_Reynaud.gif - http://bit.ly/pMjzvB probably best not to look at this after eating #vangogh #hats

Cables mentioning "Special 301" - http://bit.ly/r0fYBT major instrument of US bullying #wikileaks

Lawyer Refuses to Tell Court How Profitable BitTorrent Settlements Are - http://bit.ly/o7vPTM I wonder why

TechCrunch As We Know It May Be Over - http://tcrn.ch/oN5DqE a rather despairing post; has La Huffington broken TechCrunch?

If all else fails, switch to Open Source - http://bit.ly/oYlzkQ saving huge amounts of money as a last resort... #latvia #wikileaks

RT @laserfox Mozilla denys new startup root CA , Honest Achmeds Used Cars and Certificates: bit.ly/ewPcYw #diginotar #comodo #trust

#Swiss government unblocks #opensource court software release - http://bit.ly/qVoJLq useful precedent to have: "no cross-subsidisation"

The Next Internet: What's Holding Us Back? - http://rww.to/poGutJ fascinating historical moment most of us never knew

Now That's What I call (21st-Century) Music - http://bit.ly/pHGhhf hats off to @jonathancoulton(v @nzJayZee)#music

Russian Minister: YouTube and Google Should Be Shut Down For Copyright Infringement - http://bit.ly/n1lAoq shut down the web next?

European Court to Rule on #GM Contamination in Honey - http://bit.ly/pJVaqs fascinating case #bees

RT @normative New RAND Corp study underscores just how feeble the terror threat really is. bit.ly/qTrR6D >>what a surprise

Richter stoppen Genhonig - Schlappe für Agrarlobby - http://bit.ly/o0J3bc despite appearances, this is potentially v big #gm

Court ruling on #GM contamination blows hole in the myth of coexistence - http://bit.ly/rpQWvD here's why that ruling is important

Open Up - http://bit.ly/oN1vCT new blog "to showcase #OpenSource startups and to give Open Source entrepreneurs the news and advice" great