August 2008
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South Ossetia War
From Ben Yates’ blog, the most recent news/realtime mass collaboration article, the 2008 South Ossetia War. Some Wikipedians think this is a “bad thing”, I am firmly, vehemently, not in that group. Sure, it’s break-neck editing, and sure the article will look different in 10 years, but we will have editors then too. Today though, it gives a lot of good information to a lot...
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Snowl
So, it’s an ugly feedreader? Not to be mean, but this might be a little too far up the software stack for successful open source software. ya rly.
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Cable
Good news. The second circuit court has said that even if a provider records television for you in the cloud based on your choices, and then lets you play it back by streaming it, it is still just time-shifting, and is fair use.
This is one of the somewhat no-brainer solutions for television, that are much much easier than a lot of the currently utilized systems, but that never could be done...
