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Two pictures that tell it like it is…. What more can one say about the world? Actually, I have nothing to say, but the way I have drupal set up at the moment, it is forcing me to add content because the post is too short. [Team Polysynchronous – Just Differently Intelligent – – Just […]

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Software Commoditization. Notes by Om Malik from the OSBC 2004 conference where he hosted a panel on software commoditization. What gets commoditized? snipped by jeremy * Commodity = Cell Phone // Real value = Convenient communication * Commodity = Free / Open Source operating system // Real value = Control over how it can be […]

ICANN and ITU: collaborators or rivals?. An interview with Vint Cerf by Declan McCullagh appeared today on ZDnet. Perhaps of greatest interest was Cerf's answer to the question of whether ICANN and the International Telecommunications Union were rivals or collaborators: “This is a reflection of how… [InternetPolicy.net] —— interesting goings on here….

bush blunder. Big George W. blunder on the news here last night. The Dutch prime minister visited the oval office yesterday. The press was positioned on the inside as Jan-Peter Balkenende knocked on the other side. In the footage show last night (watch it here) Bush is heard asking an off-camera aid: “Who?, well write […]

Hook's review of the fate of HB 842.. In the newest issue of Charlottesville weekly The Hook, Courteney Stuart writes about Del. Mitch Van Yahres' efforts to convince the state of Virginia to use open source software through the ill-fated HB 842 (“Back at it: Waldo brings Microsoft… [Waldo Jaquith] —– people are working at […]

why isn't your research and writing novel? everyone knows that your work is, but why isn't it? what is its context, from what is it derived, and as such, why isn't it novel? as a contextualist, i find it hard to say my work is novel, because all of is it is derivative, even my […]

Organisations as people, clusters, networks. Ton Zijlstra neatly summarises in words and diagrams How We Might View Organisations as individuals and networks… not just people slotted into structures. “Organisations are clusters of relationships between people. | The individual and the network are the relevant economic… [Designing for Civil Society] bugger…. i was just using this […]