Category Archives: General

Elizabeth Townsend Gard writes: January 1, 2006 brought a fresh new crop of unpublished works into the public domain.  Now, the unpublished works of anyone dead since 1935  are in the public domain.  17 USC 303(a). Here a a few … Continue reading →

Electronic Frontier Foundation has an amusing post today, in the finger-in-the-dike category: RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use

Under the rubric of “Semantic Web for the Masses, by the Masses,” a discussion on the xml-dev list is exploring the possibilities and pitfalls of asynchronous/collaborative tagging of web-based content.

Seen in Boingboing.net this week: Robot explores ancient Greek shipwreck David Pescovitz: Last summer, a team researchers dispatched an autonomous undersea robot to explore a Greek merchant ship that sank in the eastern Aegean Sea in the fourth century BC. … Continue reading →

“We already knew that Yahoo! collaborates enthusiastically with the Chinese regime in questions of censorship, and now we know it is a Chinese police informant as well,” Reporters Without Borders said in a statement. More from John Battelle.

“The 2006 Horizon Report  is now available. The 2006 edition is a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program. The 2006 Horizon Report, just as has been the case with previous editions … Continue reading →

Don’t Be More Evil Than Necessary Google has published a defense.