Products that embody openness the most powerful way to shape the policy...
Aza Raskin writing about Mozilla: Developing products that embody openness is the most powerful way to shape the policy conversation. Back those products with hundreds of millions of users and you have...
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A “kill hollyweb” plan
May 3 is the Day Against DRM (Digital Restrictions Management). Please sign the petition against DRM in the HTML5 standard. Then come back and read this post. Recently I wrote in Why DRM in HTML5 and...
View ArticleList of Wikimania 2013 Submissions of Interest
Unlikely I’ll attend Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong (I did last year in DC). In lieu of marking myself as an interested attendee of proposed sessions, my list of 32 particularly interesting-to-me...
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Economics and The Wealth of the Commons Conference
The Wealth of the Commons: A world beyond market & state is finally available online in its entirety. I’ll post a review in the fullness of time, but for now I recommend reading the 73 essays in...
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Life in the possibly bright future of the federated social indieweb
After about five years (2.5 year update) it’s hard not to be disappointed in the state of the federated social web. Legacy silos have only increased their dominance, abetting mass spying, and interop...
View ArticleSuppose they gave a war on terror and a few exposed it as terror
I do not recommend anyone join the murderous institutions of the U.S. security state (and the minimum age for making such a grave error needs to be raised, worldwide). Those who do not are everyday...
View ArticleSpeedy Firefox video
Firefox 22, as of last week the general release which the vast majority of Firefox users will auto-upgrade to, includes the “change HTML5 audio/video playback rate” feature that I submitted a feature...
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Exit skype loyalty
Why Doesn’t Skype Include Stronger Protections Against Eavesdropping? At the EFF blog Seth Schoen speculates that Microsoft could be under continuous secret court orders which could possibly be...
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Street patrons missing coordination protocol
Lima, crowdfunded multi-device storage management: When we designed Lima, privacy was one of our main concerns. Lima stores your files at Home. So you can be sure you own your storage. Nobody in the...
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Copy LQDN and Ada Initiative fundraising features
A couple months ago La Quadrature du Net opened a fundraising campaign. I appreciated that they placed a very easy to understand and very revealing version of their annual budget right on their main...
View ArticlePublic copyright license readability metrics
Promised boring topic blog post in form of README snapshot. The README with tables removed has a Flesch Readability Ease score of 48.5, slightly worse than the average license text. I did not try to...
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Video from my conversation with Stephanie Syjuco on “intellectual property & the future of culture” at ZERO1 Garage 11 months ago is available at YouTube and archive.org (direct link to theora...
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The real Open Source _ proliferation problem
The Open Source Initiative, best known for keeping a list of licenses compliant with its Open Source Definition, has hired its first-ever full time paid staffer, Patrick Masson as General Manager....
View ArticleWhat’s *really* wrong with the free and open internet — and how we could win it
A few days ago Sue Gardner, ED of the Wikimedia Foundation, posted What’s *really* wrong with nonprofits — and how we can fix it. Judging by seeing the the link sent around, it has been read to confirm...
View Article5 fantasy Internet Archive announcements
Speaking of public benefit spaces on the internet, tonight the Internet Archive is having its annual celebration and announcements event. It’s a top contender for the long-term most important site on...
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Economics and the Commons Conference [knowledge stream] report
Economics and the Common(s): From Seed Form to Core Paradigm. A report on an international conference on the future of the commons (pdf) by David Bollier. Section on the knowledge stream (which I...
View Article“I would love it if all patents evaporated” (WebRTC)
I’ve been following WebRTC (Real Time Communications) because (1) it is probably the most significant addition to the web in terms of enabling a new class of applications at least since the...
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Defensive Patent License 1.0 birthday
Defensive Patent License version 1.0 turned 0 yesterday. The Internet Archive held a small celebration. The FAQ says the license may be used now: Sign up and start using the DPL by emailing...
View ArticleHierarchy of mechanisms for limiting copyright and copyright-like barriers to...
This sketch is in part motivated by a massive proliferation of copyright and copyright-like licenses for government/public sector information, e.g., sub- and sub-sub-national jurisdiction licenses and...
View Article[Semi]Commons Coordinations & Copyright Choices 4.0
CC0 is superior to any of the Creative Commons (CC) 4.0 licenses, because CC0 represents a superior policy (public domain). But if you’re unable or unwilling to upgrade to CC0, the CC 4.0 licenses are...
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