Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
The New York Public Library and Wired Magazine have collaborated to bring a set of evening lectures on how new technology is changing the economics of art with speakers Lawrence Lessig, Stephen Johnson, and the dude who did the Obama poster. I'd love to see something similar in New ...
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
My OSCON talk on teaching kids to program is now available as an audio podcast on the ITC Conversations Network.
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
I'm going to be appearing regularly on Nine to Noon on National Radio Radio New Zealand National. I'm every other week, alternating with Colin Jackson. After the show airs, I'll post my notes and a link to the audio. Here's last week's:
I'm going to talk about a ...
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Friday, January 30th, 2009
There hasn't been a lot of action from the new Government on broadband (or anything, really, yet) but this Economist article is food for thought about spending priorities:
When it comes to promoting economic activity, it is easy to see why having broadband is better than not having it, but most ...
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
SUBMISSION ON THE TRANSPACIFIC STRATEGIC ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES
To: Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Introduction
This Submission is from Nathan Torkington, an author, musician, and software professional whose address is [...].
Summary
I strongly oppose any proposals to extend the term of copyright, entrench digital rights management, assign investigation ...
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Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
Way to go, National Library of New Zealand! They're the latest addition to Flickr Commons!
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
My friend Aaron Swartz writes about the increasingly-evil OCLC:
Not satisfied with controlling the world's largest source of book information, it wants to take over all the smaller ones as well. It's now demanding that every library that uses WorldCat give control over all its catalog records to OCLC. It literally ...
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Sunday, September 28th, 2008
In this Ziff-Davis Australia article, the leaders of Australia's three largest ISPs declare network neutrality to be an American problem and explain why. It's an interesting argument, but I think there are some key elements unstated in the article.
In America, largely for historical reasons, residential customers have "all you ...
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
Reading back through my notebook at my jottings from last week's frantic flurry of meetings, I found this hard-learned lesson:
When preparing slides for others, they MUST read them when you're done and MUST give a trial presentation with the hardware in place and MUST be the presenter doing these things.
Yes, ...
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Friday, September 19th, 2008
Mark Harris lead this session.
Was at SSC, MORST, now Independent. When Wikileaks in May released ACTA doc, saw NZ mentioned, began digging.
ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Proposed by Japan and USA, but not limited to them at all. About eight countries, mainly G8 and a few ...
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