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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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Speculating About Microsoft
Microsoft just launched a new subsidiary to interact with open source communities. I’ve seen plenty of “what they did” reporting but so far no “why”. My (highly...
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Rediscovering History
Reblogged from The Global Mink: Spending as much time travelling as I do, one of the things that strikes me is how differently we all view history. For example,...
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Eco Mower
Reblogged from The Global Mink: Eco Mower, a photo by webmink on Flickr. Cows are respected as a symbolic spiritual presence in India. They roam the streets freely...
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A New Kind Of
As wave after wave of privacy news arrives, it’s easy to believe that public postings on social media sites are the problem. But I believe we are facing an issue...
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Easter Message
Who said this? “The Church in its own bubble has become, at best the guardian of the value system of the nation
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Jailbird
Reblogged from The Global Mink: Jailbird, a photo by webmink on Flickr. Walking through the Sydney Botanical Gardens (a great place to relax) I was passing the...
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? Gondola Yard
Squero di San Trovaso. I was in Italy on business this week and as I was flying in and out of Venice airport had the chance to spend a half-day in Venice. It was...
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? Who Loses If Oracle Wins?
Talking to people about the Oracle-Google case which comes to court on April 16th, I realised much of the background knowledge that explains things is lost to the...
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Digital Rights Are Just Human Rights, Online
(with thanks to SMBC, who are so generous with their images they even generate the HTML to embed them on your blog)
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? Profitable Freedom
My column on InfoWorld today connects the dots of the pragmatic value of software freedom to the CIO and the success of Red Hat. Open source delivers cost saving...
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? OSI Affiliate Scheme Grows
It’s been an open secret all month, but two new members have joined the Affiliate scheme at OSI – Spain’s CENATIC (the national open source competency centre that’s...
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Available For US Engagements
I expect to be in the USA in early-to-mid May (and possibly again in July). If you would like me to speak at a private or public event, or to provide consulting...
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Promoting Document Freedom
Today is Document Freedom Day. It’s not the easiest subject to explain. It’s easy to explain why being free to video a police encounter in the USA is important,...
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Magic Editable PDFs
Please stop sending .DOC or .DOCX files as attachments to your e-mails. There is a better way. Send editable PDFs. I explain how in ComputerWorldUK today.
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? Artistic Excellence
[This post is only useful to people who can buy MP3s from Amazon US - sorry] I have previously recommended samplers from Mishara Music. They specialise in singer...
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