Alejandro@Oxford

Interesting post on Wired about the latest adventure in The Pirate Bay, the paradise for online piracy (where you can find many treasures and more!). Read here.

Today, the OII and Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) organized a seminar titled “Gov 2.0, or truly transformative government“. The subtitle of the conference defines it as “a parliamentary seminar looking at how Government can exploit the success of the contemporary Internet”. It was divided in two. The first session was dedicated to [...]

In an interview with Euractiv.com, the French philosopher Michel Serres advocates for a “democracy of science” through the use of new interactive Internet tools like blogs. He says that… “It is necessary to answer people’s concerns – to answer them and not to explain! For two millenia, the scientific field has concentrated on offering science [...]

Wired has an article on how the big record labels are removing DRM from their catalogues, but the industry is instead experimenting with digital watermarking. This technique lets music companies to track illegally shared music to its original purchaser by including a unique serial number in each song. Microsoft has recently won a patent for [...]