Ok, so I am a bit obsessed with SSRN ratings. What does it take to have a succesful paper on SSRN? My most popular paper has only 108 downloads. Now witness Fuck by Christopher Fairman (3203 downloads and counting). Yes, Read more
The Venezuelan Parliament is going to start discussing the draft legislation called “Ley de Infogobierno”, which will overhaul e-government and software procurement in the Venezuelan public sector. Although I am often sceptical about Chavez and his Venezuelan project, some aspects Read more
The programme for the Unlocking IP Conference is now available online. This event will take place on Monday 10 – Tuesday 11 July 2006 at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. The programme looks quite impressive: Michael Geist, Brian Read more
It has been a good week for creativity based on open licences and Creative Commons. Firstly, there have been glowing reviews about the amazing creative display that encompasses the first “open” animation, a lovely little film called Elephants Dream (I Read more
The Daily Telegraph has published an article on why Firefox is stealing market share from Internet Explorer. Being a sticker-carrying Firefox evangelist (yes, I also own a Firefox t-shirt), I am surprised at the growing importance of the browser. I Read more
Amnesty International is starting a campaign in favour of freedom of expression online. The organisation claims that there is growing governmental control over blogs, chat rooms and websites where governments try to re-assert their control over cyberspace, and more importantly, Read more
I have been surprised by the coverage given to a small comment by a member of the EU Commission with regards to a question with regards to software patents. The full answer from the Commission can be found here. Most Read more
We have received this email from Hugh Hancock, forwarded by Prof. Hector MacQueen: Just thought you might be interested to hear about what I suspect is the largest Creative Commons project in Scotland, if not the UK as a whole. Read more
The Consortium for studying, evaluating, and supporting the introduction of Open Source software and Open Data Standards in the Public Administration (COSPA) has made available a series of documents and resource listings of open source, open data and open standards Read more
(Thanks to Jean-Pierre Wack for the link). This is a link to a conference taking place this week on synthetic biology. Arti Rai will from Duke’s Centre for he Public Domain will speak on “Synthetic Biology: Caught Between Property Right, Read more