New technologies
QR Code
I’ve been playing with QR codes. If you have a mobile phone with a QR Reader, use your mobile phone camera on this picture. The word convergence keeps popping up in my head. Adding: You can also generate text:
Cases
Bilski: an end to stupid patents?
I finally got around to reading In Re Bilski (via Groklaw), the latest landmark case in the United States with regards to patentability issues. While abstract ideas are not patentable, ever since the case State Street, the U.S. has allowed Read more…
Networks
Googleverse: Utopia or Dystopia?
It is a bit tired to say that Google’s stranglehold on the search engine market seems unshakeable. To offer a couple of ironic factoids, I found the accompanying image using Google Image Search, and this blog is published in Blogger, Read more…
Globalisation
A progressive IP and IT policy in the US?
One of the defining characteristics of U.S. IP policy in the last 16 years has been an inevitable move towards stronger protection, while in IT the move has been towards laissez-faire deregulation of media. Many people politically classed as either Read more…
Announcements
SCRIPTed Conference CFP
“Governance Of New Technologies: The Transformation Of Medicine, Information Technology And Intellectual Property”An International Interdisciplinary Conference March 29-31, 2009University of Edinburgh CALL FOR PAPERS Those interested in presenting a paper at the “Governance of New Technologies” conference should email editors.scripted@ed.ac.uk. Read more…
Web 2.0
User Generated Election
Congratulations are in order to American readers for bringing to a close the long and arduous election process, a truly remarkable result has been achieved. You will be hearing a lot about this in the next few days, but it Read more…
Open source
Open source invention
This is a very good article in the New York Times about publicising inventions via Web 2.0 tools like YouTube. The piece concentrates on Dr Johnny Chung Lee, a 28-year-old inventor who became a YouTube celebrity by posting Wii hacks, Read more…
Cybercrime
Twittering terrorists
From the same people who brought you The War on TerrorTM, comes the latest in terrorist tools: Twitter! Wired reports that an American intelligence outfit has been attempting to guess which tools might be used by terrorist to unleash death Read more…
Cybercrime
Woman jailed for killing avatar
Internet news sites are abuzz with the report that a Japanese woman has been jailed after reportedly “killing” her virtual husband’s avatar after a virtual divorce. A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher was virtually married to a 33-year-old office worker in Read more…
Cybercrime
Flame wars: defamation or assault?
(via Denis Magnusson) A Canadian court has issued an injunction against a stamp-dealer who posted threatening materials on the internet against Richard Warman, a human rights campaigner. The systematic hate campaign by one William Grosvenor included death threats, false accusations Read more…