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August 3, 2006
August 5, 2006
the Free Culture Movement
Via Joho, Lessig at wikimania 2006 and the ethics of the free culture movement.
August 6, 2006
razor wire
The day the Web was born
Via Kottke, the BBC takes us back to the birth of the Web, August 6, 1991.
Related link on Sands:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee at Oxford
August 7, 2006
Looking to Travel
Now that the odyssey is winding down, thinking I may travel for a week to ten days. France looks good especially the southern areas or even Monaco.
Both places shown here:
August 8, 2006
the British are coming
the British music scene invades Baltimore, or is this just another excuse to use wikimapia?
blogging for nothing
Why do economists blog?
and On the Wiki Factor
Philip Evans writes about Wikis and collaboration (PDF). Nice aside (p. 30) that includes how a professor used a wiki to produce a textbook on XML. For more on this, read Benkler's Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials.
Backpack update
So you can keep it real and organized at the same time. 37 Signals launches a calendar for backpack.
monetizing Social media
Google + MySpace = one huge deal.
the State of the blogosphere
Via Sifry's alerts, the state of the blogosphere.
Related:
France, home to the World's most intensive bloggers.
August 10, 2006
high Dynamic range digital photography
The New York Times online wonders: Was It Done With a Lens, or a Brush?
the Design of every day things
an old favorite
August 11, 2006
always a favorite: John Prine
All the best from Austin City Limits 1992
August 16, 2006
the Coolest Web sites
Time publishes its list of the 50 coolest Web sites.
British Freestyle
underneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, London
For those that need a primer, check out this entry on freestyle BMX
August 17, 2006
within the lines
For some reason, I think these guys colored within the lines...
August 18, 2006
August 19, 2006
the Stuff of globalization
Sterling on cheap flights and ubiquitous information and communication technologies via Wired.
related: Sterling in London
August 21, 2006
Writely on the Web
Documents delivered over RSS. Now that is cool.
the #9
This old Routemaster was headed down Kensington Road. I got a quick shot before he made a left onto Queensgate. See a map of where this picture was taken.
August 22, 2006
Is file sharing theft?
A debate between John Barlow, co-founder of the Electrionic Frontier Foundation and Dan Glickman, President of the Motion Picture Association of America.
August 23, 2006
and he lands it
Managing Email
From the Oxford Internet Institute, Managing email: the UK experience (pdf) by Leslie Haddon.
While I enjoyed the entire paper, I was particularly interested in the section Unnecessary Email starting on p. 22.
Lessig at LinuxWorld
Keynote presentation by Lawrence Lessig at Linuxworld 2006 in San Francisco. Lessig presents the read-write Web and the implications of copyright and the law on this Web. At about 20 minutes in, Lessig begins to discuss how some of the rationales for copyright break when moved to the Web.
Related:
Lessig on Piracy via Wired
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